New awesome source!

I found an awesome book on Amazon called Hideous Gnosis- it's a compilation of essays on Black Metal theory and it is my new source for my research paper.

Black Metal theory has never looked so grim.

There is also a blog behind the book- here. Descriptions from Amazon:

Essays and documents related to Hideous Gnosis, a symposium on black metal theory, which took place on December 12, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY. Expanded and Revised.

"Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous." - H.P. Lovecraft

"Poison yourself . . . with thought" - Arizmenda
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So far, I have only read one essay- Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism, by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix. It's slightly dry and very abstract, but pleasing revelations have come from reading it.

Here is a sample passage:
    
     "The technique of Hyperborean Black Metal is the blast beat. Pure black metal, represented by Transilvanian Hunger, means continuous open strumming and a continuous blast beat. But the pure blast beat is eternity in itself. No articulated figures, no beginning, no end, no pauses, no dynamic range. It is a bird soaring in the air with nowhere to perch even for a moment. What seemed at first to be a great clamor atrophied hum."

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