Black Metal Is Sublime
In their propensity for corpse paint and murder, bands like Bathory and Gorgoroth are the unlikely fulfillment of Romantic ideals: absolute inwardness turned outward
Adrian Van Young
is the author of the story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything (Black Lawrence Press). His fiction and non-fiction have been published in Electric Literature, Black Warrior Review, The American Reader, Slate and The Believer, among other publications.