Black metal
Subtitle: beyond the darkness
By: [edited by Tom Howells]
Publisher: Black Dog Pub.; Black Dog Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781907317729
Subjects: Black metal (Music); History and criticism; Heavy metal (Music)
Other titles: Beyond the darkness
Description: "Black Metal - Beyond the Darkness aims to look past the much-discussed Second Wave spearheaded by groups and artists such as Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone and Emperor, with a new focus on a number of the form’s lesser-reported international scenes; developments in the selling and distribution of Black Metal through labels, stores and distros; idiosyncratic aesthetics and inherent notions of theatricality; Black Metal’s relationship with the world of Fine Art; and oral recollections of the genre’s development, amongst other topics."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Discography: p. 172-188.
Table of contents: title: South of Helvete (and east of Eden) / Nathan T. Birk; title: Pēteris Kvetkovskis (Skyforger) : behind the metal curtain; title: A blaze across the North American sky / Brandon Stosuy; title: Neill "Imperial" Jameson : black plastic is still poisonous; title: Transcendental black metal : a vision of apocalyptic humanism / Hunter Hunt-Hendrix; title: Nicola Masciandaro : reflections from the intoxological crucible; title: "Individualism above all" : black metal in American writing / Diarmuid Hester; title: Nocturnal transmissions : the selling and distribution of black metal / Louis Pattison; title: Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen : a life lived in metal; title: Jon "Thorns" Jamshid : transatlantic underground; title: Pure. Fucking. Armageddon. : black metal in CS (conservative shithead) journal / Jérôme Lefèvre; title: Trine + Kim Design Studio : aesthetic transcendence; title: Justin Stubbs : "Layer-out-of-the-dead"; title: Christophe Szpajdel : band indentity; title: Looking black / Nick Richardson; title: Ulver : of wolves and withdrawal.