I ended the previous Show No Mercy by saying “2011 will go down as the year I got sick of talking about black metal.” Plenty of people have asked me about that. Basically: I’m tired of the same narrative being rehashed in features that focus on the story of Burzum’s Varg Vikernes killing his bandmate Euronymous, something that happened in 1993 and is no longer central to the genre. I’m not necessarily interested in creating a new narrative, but we do need to push that older story into the background, where it belongs in 2012. It’s also worth asking if “black metal” is just an adjective at this point, or something bigger.
In this spirit, I’m starting the year by looking at two American metal bands, Liturgy and Deafheaven, who can be considered “black” but who just as easily could be considered something else. In either case, I find what they’re doing to be more radical, compelling, and “kvlt” than most folks who still slather on the face paint.
"— Brandon Stosuy, “Death To Black Metal.” I was nodding vehemently as I read this. A lot of what Brandon says in the quote and elsewhere in this article relates strongly to what I wrote about in my Liturgy review from a couple days ago.
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