the book is really worth reading, even though a bit hard to get through at times. It has some interesting notions about the differences between ‘the world for us’ and ‘the world in itself’ and how we can’t imagine a ‘world without us’, but this is what existential horror does better than philosophy… and there’s an early section exploring the meaning of black in black metal, and how it can encapsulate this kind of metaphysical dread, the book calls it cosmic pessimism, and counts a Keiji Haino album of just voice and sine wave as a shining example.
…It all kind of chimed with me and what i’m heading towards with the valid lover project. ( case in point, this scene demo is one of the few things i’ve posted which doesn’t send overlapping waves of nihilistic distortion through the aleph
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