New Aeon

The New Aeon is an anticipated historical and spiritual order that gives Black Metal a role beyond music: in the passage, it becomes the sound of a world expected to replace Christendom. The speakers describe this future as imminent and certain, joining a neo-heathen state to the rise of a newly formed, hard-edged youth and to the return of Wotan.

A Projected Break with Christendom

The New Aeon is defined by the order it is supposed to displace. The passage presents Christendom as approaching its end and a neo-heathen state as the successor; this is a polemical prediction, not a documented change in political or religious life. Its language of a coming age gives the speakers’ hostility toward Christianity the scale of a historical transformation.

The future is described in terms of arrival rather than gradual reform. The speakers place it at the dawn of a new era and treat its emergence as beyond doubt, even while acknowledging that the prospect seems absurd to narrow-minded observers. That contrast makes disbelief part of the rhetoric: incredulity is cast not as a reason for doubt but as evidence that others cannot yet perceive the coming reality.

Black Metal and the Ideal Youth

Black Metal is assigned a formative social function. The passage argues that young people influenced by it and by ideologically related music closely resemble an ideal of youth presented by a figure called Herr Wolf: active, dominating, fearless, brutal, proud, and physically strong. In this vision, endurance under severe trials matters more than tenderness, and conventional altruism and morality are rejected as false restraints.

The speakers describe this youth as belonging to the New Aeon and the new Reich. Music thus serves as more than an emblem of rebellion: it is represented as a force that shapes the people expected to inhabit the envisioned order. The claim is ideological and aspirational; the passage offers no evidence that Black Metal actually produces the social transformation it predicts.

Horus, Wotan, and the Coming Age

The New Aeon is also given a mythic and spiritual dimension. The speakers identify Black Metal with the forthcoming Aeon of Horus and with the return of Wotan, combining those references in one forecast of a European future. The passage does not explain how the figures relate to one another; their conjunction instead intensifies the declaration that a new sacred reality is approaching.

A rising sun over Europe supplies the closing image for this expectation. It carries both promise and danger: the new light may destroy those who await it or illuminate their future. That unresolved possibility lends the New Aeon a volatile character. It is proclaimed with certainty, but its own imagery leaves open whether its arrival means renewal, catastrophe, or both.