Black Metal Machine: Theorizing Industrial Black Metal

Far from being a marginal Black Metal subgenre, Industrial Black Metal is central in bringing out Black Metal’s often disavowed appropriation of machinic noise and its critique of machine society. Through its engagement with “becoming machine” logic and robot apocalypse, cybernetic, and cosmic science fictions, Industrial Black Metal reconfigures Black Metal’s drive toward the inorganic inhuman as vehement critique of capitalist modernity and the industrial death state. Ryder Windham and Peter Vilmur’s official Darth Vader guidebook The Complete Vader (2009) chuckles at some early merchandise misfires and mocks a 1978 collectable model kit Darth Vader Van by manufacturer MPC—which