Mors Mystica

Essays and artworks related to Mors Mystica, a black metal theory symposium on the theme of mystical death."Only that person who says: 'My soul chooses hanging, and my bones death' can truly embrace this fire . . . for it is absolutely true that 'no one can see me and live.'" -- Bonaventure, Itinerarium Mentis in DeumCONTENTSIntroduction: On "Heroes/Helden"Edia Connole & Nicola MasciandaroFollowing the Stench: Watain and Putrefaction MysticismDrew DanielAblaze in the Bath of FireBrad BaumgartnerMycelegiumJames Harrisdying to find I was never thereTeresa GillespieOn the Ecstasy of Annihilation: Notes towards a Demonic SupplementCharlie BlakeAutonomy of Death, Nothing Like ThisDaniel Colucciello Barber"It's a suit! It's ME!": Hyper-Star and Hyper-Hero through Black Sabbath's Iron Man Caoimhe Doyle & Katherine FoyleThe Tongue-Tied Mystic: Aaaarrrgghhh! Fuck Them! Fuck You!Gary J. Shipley These Flames Will Lick the Feet of GodHeather MasciandaroMystical AnarchismSimon CritchleyDie Maske des Black MetalsDominik Irtenkauf Xenharmonic Black Metal: Radical Intervallics as Apophatic OntotheologyBrooker BuckinghamThe Perichoresis of Music, Art, and PhilosophyHunter Hunt-HendrixOn Darkness ItselfNiall ScottHaemálJeremy Dyer From Black BileEugene Thacker"This Place is a Tomb": Infinite Terror in DarkspaceDylan TriggSeven Propositions On The Secret Kissing Of Black Metal: OSKVLVMEdia ConnoleWings Flock to My Crypt, I Fly to My Throne:On Inquisition's Esoteric Floating TombNicola MasciandaroSymposium PhotographsÖykü TektenAPPENDIXBound to Metal (Interview with Edia Connole for Legacy) Dominik IrtenkaufTheoria e praxis del Black Metal (Interview by Fabio Selvafiorita for L'Intellettuale Dissidente)Nicola Masciandaro