Mysticism, Ritual and Religion in Drone Metal

Contents

• List of figures Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: Mysticism and metal music
• 2. To be experienced not understood: Empirical mysticisms in dub, trance and drone
• 3. Beyond heaviness: Listener experience in a translocal and marginal genre
• 4. Pilgrimages to elsewhere: Languages of ineffability, otherness, and ambiguity
• 5. Amplifier worship: Materiality and mysticism in heavy sound
• 6. Methods to cross the abyss: Ritual, violence and noise
• 7. Conclusion: Drone metal mysticism References Index