Welcome to our half-year coverage of the black metal world, Kvlt Kolvmn faithful! We approach the months of primordial frostiness, when the sun shall once again obscure its face and albums filled with ice and creatures of the wintry night will reign supreme.
But for nowโฆ I guess hanging by the pool is cool. Black metal has had an interesting go during the pandemic.
Which is a huge win for fans of all things frosty. Below we have detailed a few of our favorite records of the year thus far. We hope you enjoy reading about and listening along to them with us, and we strongly encourage you to share your own lists in the comments or on Facebook. Thanks for sticking with us through the warm months. Winter approaches, and here at Kvlt Kolvmn, does it ever really leave?
Some things sound too good to be true on paper. We sat down with editors Daniel Lukes and Stanimir Panayotov and designer Jaci Raia to discuss the inspiration behind Black Metal Rainbows ,the state of black metal scene, and more. What inspired you to work on Black Metal Rainbows, and how did your vision evolve as you started working on the book? Daniel Lukes: Black Metal Rainbows started with a conference called Coloring the Black in , in Dublin, with a goal of broadening and queering the scope of black metal discourse.
Deafheaven and The Soft Pink Truth were a big inspiration to us back then, and the field of queer or leftist or post-black metal has grown hugely since. Throughout the process of putting this book together over the years it has been heartening to see so much of this type of music spring up and a real hunger for extreme and underground metal that has a revolutionary and politically progressive message, engaging directly with the big problems we face as a global society: the climate crisis, the widening gap between the obscenely rich and the growing poor, the rise of fascism worldwide, etc.
