/lit/ - Literature

discarding the shitposter into the garbage bin, I'm gonna diverge onto a thesis peripherally related to EDM since it got brought up. Euronymous seeking out Conrad Schnitzler more or less connects Norwegian black metal to the krautrock scene, more particularly the kosmische progressive electronic music. This connection helps contextualize how/why so many 2nd wave Norwegians ended up exploring the implications of longer-form compositional styles and/or outright aping the synth ideas of krautrock, through a cosmic-existential lens that overlaps with the aesthetic project that kosmische music was also going for.

Examples being Darkthrone's Fenriz having a dark ambient project called Neptunian Towers that outright apes Tangerine Dream, the nature ambient of Ildjarn, the minimalism of Transilvanian Hunger, the long-form compositions on Burzum's Hvis lyset tar oss and Filosofem, the outright ambient tracks on Filosofem (that still manage to filter people unable to contextually or historically place it to this day) etc. The Norwegians will posture a lot but they were a lot more eclectic than they would have admitted, although Varg/Fenriz do outright cite techno as influences too, and techno is itself informed by kosmische music. All of this really encapsulates 2nd wave Norwegian stuff into a broader tradition of northern European music.