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" ... From an artistic standpoint, the issues surrounding postmodernity elicited by black metal are particularly juicy subject matters for artists. Black metal was a total rejection of the postmodern art and music of the 1980s. Unlike musical movements like post-punk and new wave, black metal was a genuinely avant-garde (as in, it held little to no regard for structure or melody or commercial appeal) musical movement that dictated a very specific set of values: satanism, paganism, connection to mysticism and Nordic nature. According to some of the movement's leaders, you could not be a black metal musician unless you fully adhered to those values. There of course have been extreme musical movements preceding black metal, but black metal bands sought to eliminate notions of performative presentation. Industrial bands like Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse, for instance, utilized destruction and extreme behavior as performance, but black metal bands continued their on-stage behavior off stage. These bands didn’t just pretend to be satanic church burners, they were satanic church burners. You could not just make black metal, you had to, in effect, BE black metal. As artists in the 1990s, like Nan Goldin, Jenny Saville and Dash Snow, tried to approach their subjects more directly and intimately, moving away from the ironic poses of Pictures Generation artists, the sheer commitment of black metal musicians proves enduringly fascinating. And perhaps even inspiring, to a certain extent. To make black metal was to be fully immersed in its culture. There was no distance between these artists and their art. ... "
" ... Postmodern thinking privileges opinion over principle and in extreme cases may question the very existence of things like “truth” and “facts.” Hamlet’s remark that “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” is a prototypical example of postmodern thinking. When modernity insists that important things are matters of principle, postmodernity replies that the most important principle of all, truth, is merely a matter of opinion. ... "