Black Metal Rainbows
Black Metal Rainbows by Daniel Lukes, published by PM Press in 2023, is a 439-page exploration of the black metal genre, which is often characterized by its paradoxical nature. This book delves into the complexities of black metal, highlighting its violent and flamboyant history while addressing the cultural conflicts surrounding it. The text presents a diverse array of perspectives from writers, artists, and activists, emphasizing the genre’s potential for inclusivity and resistance against political conservatism.
Readers will encounter a radical collection of essays, artworks, and theory-fictions that challenge the traditional narratives associated with black metal. The contributors, including notable figures like Drew Daniel and Kim Kelly, articulate a vision of black metal as a vibrant and revolutionary force, celebrating themes of community, queerness, and antifascism. Black Metal Rainbows seeks to illuminate the genre’s multifaceted identity, revealing its joyful and celebratory aspects while pushing back against stereotypes of grimness and nihilism. This edition invites readers to explore the rich tapestry of black metal’s cultural significance and its ongoing evolution.
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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!
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