{"id":1268,"date":"2009-12-16T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2009-12-16T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:56:00","slug":"black-metal-music-abiding-and-transcendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Black Metal Music: ‘Abiding and Transcendent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wide world of academia  includes Buffy Studies<\/a> and edited collections published by serious presses on the legal aspects of Harry Potter’s world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So why not a quasi-academic symposium on black-metal music<\/a>?<\/p>\n

He quoted lyrics from the face-painted, early-1990s Norwegian black-metal bands Gorgoroth and Immortal; he framed black metal as respecting some of rock\u2019s orthodoxies, as opposed to the heresies of disco and punk; and he spoke of black metal\u2019s preoccupation with \u201cthe abiding and transcendent: stone, mountain, moon.\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n

(Tip of the steel helmet to Margaret Soltan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wide world of academia  includes Buffy Studies and edited collections published by serious presses on the legal aspects of Harry Potter’s world. So why not a quasi-academic symposium on black-metal music? He quoted lyrics from the face-painted, early-1990s Norwegian black-metal bands Gorgoroth and Immortal; he framed black metal as respecting some of rock\u2019s orthodoxies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ks","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2073,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2073","url_meta":{"origin":1268,"position":0},"title":"‘Severed Ways’: Headbangers of 1007 CE","author":"Chas S. 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