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25 Best Albums of 2020

Deftones, Code Orange, Run the Jewels and more

The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2020

Looking back at the year in metal.

SPOILER: Here Are Decibel’s Top 40 Albums of 2020 | Decibel Magazine

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Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory, Issue 1: Incipit

Issue 1 ("Incipit") of Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory. Not to be confused with metal studies, music criticism, ethnography, or sociology, Black Metal Theory is a speculative and creative endeavor, one which seeks ways of thinking that count as Black Metal events - and indeed, to see how Black Metal might count as thinking. Theory of Black Metal, and Black Metal of theory. Mutual blackening. Therefore, we eschew any approach that treats theory and Metal discretely, preferring to take the left-hand path by insisting on "some kind of connaturality between the two, a shared capacity for nigredo."Issue 1: Incipit includes: Zareen Price, "Dilation: Editor's Preface" - Janet Silk, "Open a Vein: Suicidal Black Metal and Enlightenment" - Timothy Morton, "At the Edge of the Smoking Pool of Death: Wolves in the Throne Room" - Elodie Lesourd, "Baptism or Death: Black Metal in Contemporary Art, Birth of a New Aesthetic Category" - Amelia Ishmael, "The Night is No Longer Dead; it has a life of its own" [featuring artwork by: Alexander Binder, Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, Ibrahim R. Ineke, Alessandro Keegan, Irena Knezevic, Allen Linder, Gean Moreno, and Nine Yamamoto-Masson] - David Prescott-Steed, "Frostbite on My Feet: Representations of Walking in Black Metal Visual Culture" - Daniel Lukes, "Black Metal Machine: Theorizing Industrial Black Metal" - Joel Cotterell, "This is Armageddon: The Dawn Motif and Black Metal's Anti-Christian Project"

Observer review: Kingdom Come by JG Ballard

Kingdom Come looks like a report on modern Britain, but it's really a report on the state of JG Ballard's head, and the good news is that it's as fertile as ever, says Phil Baker.

The polluters | Environment | The Guardian

<p>The Guardian investigates the fossil fuel industry, and the structures behind it, which are driving the climate emergency</p>