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Svart Metall

Title: Svart Metall

Photographer/s: Grant Willing

Contributor/s: Noel Sinclair Boyt

Date of publication: May 2009

Place of publication: New York City

Dimensions: 11.25×15″

Edition size: 1000

Type of binding: Self, Folded

Number of pages: 32

Type of paper: 50lb Newsprint

Number of pictures: 16

Type of printing: Offset

Printer: Linco

Publisher: Self-Published

Designer: Self

Editor: Self

Language: English

Category: Artist Book

Price: $10

Summary: ‘Svart Metall’ is an investigation into the themes and ideals of the black metal music genre. Black metal explores the ideas of ancient pagan and satanic views and presents these feelings in a violent, often cacophonous style of music. Progressing from the themes of the music, a subculture has developed in which murders, church burnings, animal sacrifices, and other barbaric acts have occurred. Grant Willing’s photographic study into this world looks at consistent lyrical themes and an overall consciousness that is put forth by this way of life. The folklore and mythology are acting as the basis behind this fantasy, and the dire acts of violence that occurred being the basis in reality. By contrasting varying elements that are rooted in these central themes, Willing is creating an overall feeling of the inherent grimness and misanthropy that exists in black metal culture.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1987 near Denver, Colorado, USA

Website: http://grantwilling.com

Book link: http://grantwilling.com/svartmetallbook.html

Donated by: Grant Willing

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Published on September 30, 2010 3:54 pm.
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