Dark epistemology: An assessment of philosophical trends in the black metal music of Mayhem

Metal Music Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-38

  McWilliams, Jesse ^a  

^a Midlands Technical College   (United States)

Author keywords

Black metal; Epistemology; Misanthropy; Pessimism; Phenomenology; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019203966     PISSN: 20523998     EISSN: 20524005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1386/mms.1.1.25_1     Document Type: Article

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