Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium

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

Haemál
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
Öykü 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