To the Manor Born Black-metal Lords of the Manor shouts at the devil By Sarah Quelland AS A GENERAL rule, black-metal bands are either too scary or too silly for the average person to digest. It's hard to get past their cartoonish--at times almost comical--obsessions with evil, violence, death and nihilism. San Jose's Lords of the Manor want to change people's perceptions and bring a more accessible dimension to the genre. The prospect that people--even close family members--might consider them agents of the dark side is laughable to them.

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