Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory

Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory (Mimesis, 2015). 300 pp. (sewn binding)

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CONTENTS

Introduction: Mystical Black Metal Theory

Black Sabbath’s ‘Black Sabbath’: A Gloss on Heavy Metal’s Originary Song - Nicola Masciandaro 

Leave Me In Hell - Edia Connole

What is This that Stands before Me?: Metal as Deixis - Nicola Masciandaro

Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya - Nicola Masciandaro

WormSign - Nicola Masciandaro

On the Mystical Love of Black Metal - Nicola Masciandaro

The Missing Subject of Accelerationism: Heavy Metal’s Wyrd Realism - Edia Connole

Silence: A Darkness to Ward Off All Spells - Nicola Masciandaro

Les Légions Noires: Labor, Language, Laughter - Edia Connole 

Black Metal Commentary - Nicola Masciandaro and Reza Negarestani

Interview (Miasma) - Nicola Masciandaro

Interview (with Dominik Irtenkauf, Legacy) - Nicola Masciandaro

Interview (with Domink Irtenkauf, Avantgarde Metal) - Nicola Masciandaro

Interview (with Nina Scholz, Jungle World) - Nicola Masciandaro

Metal Studies and the Scission of the Word - Nicola Masciandaro

Reflections from the Intoxological Crucible - Nicola Masciandaro

Interview (with Dominik Irtenkauf, Legacy) - Edia Connole

What is Black Metal Theory? - Edia Connole