The evolving politics of metal

For this video, I ask why, despite metal self-consciously embracing extremity and transgression, it goes to great lengths to conceal its politics, and why subsequent attempts to reveal or create a politics of metal have met with ideological and artistic failure.

Come on in, the water’s fine.

Resources:
Mark Fish – DOCH Lectures #5, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3Nix9VLoU&t=1508

Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism: A Counter-History, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9670246-liberalism

Alec Ryrie – Jesus, Hitler, and the Abolition of God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBrrsqhAXQI&t=1956s

Bill Peel – Tonight it’s a World we Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120995919-tonight-it-s-a-world-we-bury?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=xc28DC4MX2&rank=1

Keith Kahn Harris – Extreme Metal: music and culture on the edge, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91312.Extreme_Metal

We Don't Understand The Working Class | Aaron Bastani Meets Dan Evans, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRp5xBKL54M

Roland Barthes – Death of the Author, https://sites.tufts.edu/english292b/files/2012/01/Barthes-The-Death-of-the-Author.pdf

https://astralnoizeuk.com/2021/08/24/curating-resistance-a-guilt-free-guide-to-black-metal/

https://www.cjr.org/first_person/heavy-metal-capitol-spotting-nazis.php

Temple Donuts:
https://fanzigfanzine.blogspot.com/2010/09/simon-erl-interview.html?m=1 (interview actually given in 2010, not 2020)
https://archive.thetab.com/uk/leeds/2020/06/09/the-support-has-been-very-overwhelming-says-beckett-student-who-was-racially-abused-while-working-at-temple-51869
https://archive.thetab.com/uk/leeds/2020/06/08/temple-coffee-apologise-for-black-ex-employee-being-called-a-slave-51836
https://archive.thetab.com/uk/leeds/2020/06/09/temple-co-owner-has-swastika-socks-and-posted-racist-images-online-51848
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/the-nazi-row-at-temple-coffee-and-donuts/
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/we-not-racist-leeds-cafe-18399015