Black Metal Rainbows

Black Metal Rainbows demonstrates that there is far more to black metal than its reactionary stereotypes. It illustrates the huge internal variety within the global black metal scene and explores its plentiful crossovers with attendant genres such as industrial, ambient, and electronica. Within black metal there is queerness, flamboyance, inclusivity, and antifascism in abundance.

This book features musicians' texts and self-reflections on their own music and practice.

Book launches, including a gallery of artwork included in the book, are being planned for New York (Saint Vitus & Basilica Soundscape), Dublin (Gallery X), Montreal (venue to be determined), and Toronto (Tuning Speculation Conference).

This book can be used in academic environments as a resource in the context of programs in arts and music studies / theory that require focus on extreme music.

Foregrounds black metal's evolution and celebrate its long-term anti-authoritarian spirit as opposed to the genres association with reactionary and conservative politics.

The original idea came from a symposium called "Coloring the Black," which took place in Dublin in 2015. During the conference "Lord of the Logos" Christoph Spzajdel (Emperor, Enthroned) designed a logo, and opened up a competition to color it, causing much furor among purists.