Documentary photographer Peter Beste has spent the last seven years working in the world of Norwegian black metal. This scene, with its notorious events of murder, church arson and self-mythologization is absolutely sealed to outsiders. Beste's access and insight into this world has been without precendent, resulting in an amazing photographic journey which was published as a large scale photography book entitled True Norwegian Black Metal (Vice Books 2008).

Beste has had solo exhibitions in London, New York, San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Osaka, Oslo, and Bergen. His work has appeared in London Observer, Spin, VH1, MTV, American Photo, Modern Painters, British Journal of Photography, Dazed and Confused, XXL, and many others.