My friend the ever inventive Ben Woodard and Zachary Price have teamed up with Aspasia Stephanou to create Helvete, a journal of black metal theory.
Many observations, in random order:
• Scholars of all kinds, not simply the professors, are now in the business of creating top notch journals, without the burden of receiving imprimaturs from bureaucratic functionaries
• Black metal is seriously powerful and I recommend to anyone to listen to Burzum's Filosofem, as soon as possible. For instance.
• This work is deeply congruent with the ecological era I'm now calling the time of hyperobjects. No wonder the recent London symposium was called Melancology.