Eugene Thacker

James Harris

Simon Critchley

Brad Baumgartner

Drew Daniel

Edia Connole

Charlie Blake

Assistant Professor of English Drew Daniel

Dominik Irtenkauf

Brooker Buckingham

Heather Masciandaro

Katherine Foyle

Dylan Trigg

Caoimhe Doyle

Nicola Masciandaro

Daniel Barber

Jeremy Dyer

Teresa Gillespie

Niall Scott

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix

Gary Shipley

Oyku Tekten

Essays and artworks related to Mors Mystica, a black metal theory symposium on the theme of mystical death. "Only that person who says: 'My soul chooses hanging, and my bones death' can truly embrace this fire . . . for it is absolutely true that 'no one can see me and live.'" -- Bonaventure, Itinerarium Mentis in Deum CONTENTS Introduction: On "Heroes/Helden" Edia Connole & Nicola Masciandaro Following the Stench: Watain and Putrefaction Mysticism Drew Daniel Ablaze in the Bath of Fire Brad Baumgartner Mycelegium James Harris dying to find I was never there Teresa Gillespie On the Ecstasy of Annihilation: Notes towards a Demonic Supplement Charlie Blake Autonomy of Death, Nothing Like This Daniel Colucciello Barber "It's a suit! It's ME!": Hyper-Star and Hyper-Hero through Black Sabbath's Iron Man Caoimhe Doyle & Katherine Foyle The Tongue-Tied Mystic: Aaaarrrgghhh! Fuck Them! Fuck You! Gary J. Shipley These Flames Will Lick the Feet of God Heather Masciandaro Mystical Anarchism Simon Critchley Die Maske des Black Metals Dominik Irtenkauf Xenharmonic Black Metal: Radical Intervallics as Apophatic Ontotheology Brooker Buckingham The Perichoresis of Music, Art, and Philosophy Hunter Hunt-Hendrix On Darkness Itself Niall Scott Haemal Jeremy Dyer From Black Bile Eugene Thacker "This Place is a Tomb": Infinite Terror in Darkspace Dylan Trigg Seven Propositions On The Secret Kissing Of Black Metal: OSKVLVM Edia Connole Wings Flock to My Crypt, I Fly to My Throne: On Inquisition's Esoteric Floating Tomb Nicola Masciandaro Symposium Photographs Oyku Tekten APPENDIX Bound to Metal (Interview with Edia Connole for Legacy) Dominik Irtenkauf Theoria e praxis del Black Metal (Interview by Fabio Selvafiorita for L'Intellettuale Dissidente) Nicola Masciandaro"

Black Metal Theory Symposium

Mors Mystica

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix

Books

Your next favorite book is out there