Black metal jako kontynuacja romantyzmu? O figurze artysty i stosunku do natury jako korzeniach gatunku

• Authors: Kamil Barski

Title variants

EN

Black metal as a continuation of Romanticism? About the figure of an artist and the attitude to Nature as the roots of the genre

Abstracts

EN

The main purpose of this article is to determine the roots of the extreme music genre black metal. The author notices links to the artistic anthropology of Roman ticism and the reception of nature characteristic of that time. Considering the first problem, he draws attention to the relationship between the lyrical message of black metal songs and political life, as well as to the realization of the romantic-modernist figure of the artist-madman and the tormented artist who also has mediumistic features. An important element of this image is transgressive Satanism. The second group of problems is connected with the romantic attitude toward nature that is observed in black metal music. Nature there becomes a space to escape from the modern, technocratic, neoliberal world and offers a chance to consolidate an indi vidual’s identity. Much attention is paid to the relationship between the American black metal scene and poets considered to be the precursors of ecocriticism; atten tion is also drawn to the resentment-based return of nationalizing black metal to a rustic past.

Keywords

PL

black metal; romantyzm; heavy metal; metal studies; ekokrytyka; artysta; natura

EN

black metal; Romanticism; heavy metal; metal studies; ecocriticism; artist; nature

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 325-345

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Kamil Barski

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Identifiers

DOI

10.53052/17313317.2023.43

Biblioteka Nauki

29520346