Floating tomb: black metal theory (Music) - Tapa blanda

Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory is a collaborative collection of writings in black metal theory (BMT), an amorphous metallectual movement initiated in 2009 with the symposium Hideous Gnosis. This volume gathers together previously published and new work on BMT focusing on mysticism, a domain of thought and experience with deep connections both to the black metal genre and to theory (as theoria, vision, contemplation). More than a topic for BMT, the mystical is here explored in terms of the continuous intersection between black metal and theory, the ‘floating tomb’ wherein black metal is elevated into the intellectual and visionary experience that it already is.

Nicola Masciandaro is Professor of English at Brooklyn College (CUNY) and a specialist in medieval literature. His interests lie primarily in the areas of mysticism, commentary, metal, and poetic experiment. He is the author of The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature (Notre Dame, 2007) and is the founding editor of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. Recent works include Dark Nights of the Universe, coauthored with Daniel C. Barber, Alexander Galloway, Eugene Thacker (NAME, 2013), and Sufficient Unto the Day: Sermones Contra Solicitudinem (Schism, 2014). Edia Connole is an artist and theorist working at the intersection of black metal and mysticism. Recent works include True Detection, coedited with Paul J. Ennis and Nicola Masciandaro (Schism, 2014), Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology, co-edited with Gary J. Shipley (Schism, 2015), and Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium, co-edited with Nicola Masciandaro (Schism, 2015).