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A friend of mine wrote on drone metal for their PHD thesis. 

This thesis analyses mystical discourse in drone metal music. Drone metal is a radically slowed and extended form of extreme metal music featuring lengthy expanses of monotonously repeated riffs and heavily distorted and amplified dirge-like noise. References to mysticism and reports of mystical experience are prevalent in the musical culture. Mysticism, in my approach influenced by the work of Michel de Certeau, is understood as a tradition constituted by inextricable and ongoing reception and production of text and experience. Analysing information from participant observation, survey responses, ethnographic interviews, sonic and material culture, and online discourse, I discuss the discursive culture of drone metal in which musical experiences are understood in relation to mysticism. I examine the translocal and marginal formation of drone metal as a genre, tracing the experiential as well as sonic characteristics with which listeners draw similarities between music. I show how drone metal listening is reported in terms of imaginative temporal, spatial and bodily ‘elsewheres’, combining in the trope of pilgrimage. Elsewheres are evoked in both thematic content and in rhetoric, and I examine the constant shifts in linguistic performance of musical discourse, suggesting that listeners make space in which to explore religiosity and mysticism in musical experience through maintaining ambivalence about such concepts and their relation to drone metal. I examine the importance of amplification, distortion and materiality, a tendency which is evident in the centrality of amplifiers, physical music media, and bodily experience of vibration. I then investigate the language of violence in listener descriptions of ritual, observing the importance of violence in constructing powerful experience. Finally, I discuss each element of drone metal culture in terms of Certeau’s work, showing that for participants, drone metal is a tradition of mystical discourse constituted in experience, reception and production of extreme sound and language.

Contact for a .PFD copy at owen.coggins(at)open.ac.uk

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Vanity is a disease of the narcissistic classes

Imagine a world if you might, run by the beautiful, where the ugly are enslaved and forced to labor at their will, hidden behind the scenes so that the sought after would never have to gaze upon them. The ultimate psychopathic economy, where all empathy is replaced by envy and all the human virtue of love and solidarity were destroyed forever.  The beautiful fuck all day in ignorance.  The undesirable toil to ensure their happiness and bliss.  New sexual fetishes are born daily to please their masters.  These same fetishes die hourly because they can no longer excite the feeble minds of the beautiful.  The shallow and superficial are the orders of the day.  The sublime and wise are tortured and imprisoned in secret black sites and their organs are harvested to ensure the immortality of the narcissistic classes.    

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This album is amazing like much of the work of Phillip Glass.  The phrasing, the textural low end, the repetition, the reoccurring motifs that erupt throughout the work bringing you back to the whimsical minor, to the quiet musing piano, the french horn pushing hope and doubling over,  grounded in a questioning string section.  The product of a genius mind.

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Trying to get down like this.

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I waking up feeling like this.  The best I can.  Stay in my own lane.

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there are some dudes out there I would like to do this to.

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They ll never know who this man was.

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June 1st is always a fucked up day for me. Waiting for the sky to clear. I am riding up to Kelly' s Point. I m gonna sit by the water and drink a six pack with my shirt off. I m gonna listen to Nina Simone, Charles Mingus, and Archie Shepp. That dirty water is gonna cleanse my soul.  I m gonna be feeling real good. I m going back to California in a few weeks, starting to feel excited, a little electric.  I m gonna mash the gas out on my way down.       

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Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Maya Angelou

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Yasiin Bey a.k.a. Mos Def (by infocus2008)

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Yasiin Bey - I Don't Like (by kvshmvsic)