Tonight It’s a World We Bury
Black Metal, Red Politics
by Bill Peel
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Pub Date 23 May 2023 | Archive Date 19 May 2023
Repeater Books | Repeater
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Description
Tonight It's a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music.
Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal is a genre of the right — full of wannabe Vikings, Nazis, skinheads and other unsavoury characters — Tonight It's a World We Bury looks at an array of black metal artists to re-affirm the genre as radically anticapitalist, revolutionary and left-wing.
Utilizing an eclectic range of black metal bands, including Darkthrone, Burzum, Liturgy and Deathspell Omega, and taking in the works of Marx, Nietzsche, Deleuze and more, Tonight It's a World We Bury is a book on black metal like no other.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781914420368 |
| PRICE | US$14.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
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Featured Reviews
Chad G, Reviewer
Bill Peel’s passion for Black Metal and disdain for capitalism shine in Tonight It’s a World We Bury. Utilizing five of the genres most common tropes, Peel shows how the political slant applied to the genre can be subverted and used as a critique of the modern capitalist deity. While some of these are surely reaches, Peel’s love and knowledge for the genre and its endless permutations shine, as he references standard bearers like Darkthrone, Paysage d’Hiver, and Mayhem alongside new blood such as Afsky and Ethereal Shroud to drive his message home.
This is surely one of the most levelheaded, researched, and thoughtful books on Black Metal out there. Recommended to fans of the genre and those curious what all the tremolo is all about.
**I was given a copy of this book by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My thanks to Repeater Books and Netgalley*
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