Der Fluch

Der Fluch appears in the book not through a profile of its own history, but as one of the musical reference points named by musicians describing their influences. Its significance in the available account is relational: it is cited alongside several other bands as part of the mix behind music the speakers characterized as un-Nordic in sound.

Place in the Influence Network

In response to a question about what had inspired them, the musicians said that their Black Metal drew on Oi and Rock Against Communism, as well as Der Fluch, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Manowar, and Danzig. The passage therefore documents Der Fluch as an acknowledged influence, but does not specify which songs, records, or musical features the speakers had in mind.

Musical Context

The list crosses several reference points rather than presenting a single model. Der Fluch is grouped with bands the speakers identified as inspirations, while Oi and Rock Against Communism are separately identified as influences on their Black Metal. The speakers linked this range of inputs to their music’s un-Nordic sound. That description belongs to the speakers’ own music; the passage does not characterize Der Fluch’s sound in those terms.

What the Account Establishes

The reference gives Der Fluch a place in another band’s account of how its music was shaped. It does not, in the cited passage, identify Der Fluch’s members, origins, releases, or relationship to the Norwegian scene. The book’s broader observation that Norwegian Black Metal had no fixed rulebook and that its boundaries shifted over time offers context for a scene in which attitudes and influences mattered alongside sound, but does not establish Der Fluch’s membership in that scene.