Black metal rainbows / edited by Daniel Lukes & Stanimir Panayotov ; designed by Jaci Raia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lukes, Daniel, editor.

Panaĭotov, Stanimir, editor.

Raia, Jaci, book designer.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black metal (Music)--Social aspects.

Black metal (Music).

Black metal (Music)--Criticism and interpretation.

Black metal (Music)--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

439 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world's imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder. Today black metal is nothing less than a cultural battleground between those who claim it for nationalist and racist ends, and those who say: Nazi black metal fvck off! Black Metal Rainbows is a radical collection of writers, artists, activists, and visionaries, including Drew Daniel, Kim Kelly, Laina Dawes, Espi Kvlt, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Svein Egil Hatlevik, Eugene S. Robinson, Margaret Killjoy, and many more. Across essays and theory-fictions, artworks and comics, we say out loud: Long live black metal's trve rainbow! This unique volume envisions black metal as always already open, inclusive, and unlimited: a musical genre whose vital spirit of total antagonism rebels against the forces of political conservatism. Beyond its clichés of grimness, nihilism, reaction, and signature black/white corpse-paint sneer, black metal today is a vibrant and revolutionary paradigm. This book reveals its ludic, carnival worlds animated by spirits of joy and celebration, community and care, queerness and camp, LGBTQI+ identities and antifascist, antiracist, and left-wing politics, not to mention endless aesthetic experimentation and fabulousness. From the crypt to the cloud, Black Metal Rainbows unearths black metal's sparkling core and illuminates its prismatic spectrum: deep within the black, far beyond grimness, and over a darkly glittering rainbow!"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Blink. 2.0 [FRONTISPIECE] (For Pelle Ohlin & Kiriko Takemura) / Jonathan Mayhew

Ritual for PO & KT / Jonathan Mayhew

Notes:

Originally published: Toronto : Between the Lines, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781629638812

1629638811

9781629638829

162963882X

OCLC:

1227916788

Publisher Number:

99995890279