The Merit of Genre: The Brief Lives of Black Metal and Die Brücke.
Here it is the end of January and I haven’t posted anything all month. Since I try to get at least one post a month in, I decided to go ahead and cheat (instead of actually writing something new!) and post an essay from a research project I did a few summers ago. I tried to cut most of the boring stuff out, basically you get a fair amount of history on Die Brücke group of German Expressionists and Norwegian Black Metal, along with some conclusions on what an examination of their history has to say about the merit of genre itself. So go ahead and keep reading if any of that sounds interesting. If not, sit back and wait for my upcoming Tolkien Fan Fiction, because this is a long one!
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