This is the first extensive scholarly study of drone metal music
and its religious associations, drawing on five years of
ethnographic participant observation from more than 300
performances and 74 interviews, plus surveys, analyses of sound
recordings, artwork, and extensive online discourse about music.
Owen Coggins shows that while many drone metal listeners identify
as non-religious, their ways of engaging with and talking about
drone metal are richly informed by mysticism, ritual and religion.
He explores why language relating to mysticism and spiritual
experience is so prevalent in drone metal culture and in discussion
of musical experiences and practices of the genre. The author
develops the work of Michel de Certeau to provide an empirically
grounded theory of mysticism in popular culture. He argues that the
marginality of the genre culture, together with the extremely
abstract sound produces a focus on the listeners' engagement with
sound, and that this in turn creates a space for the open-ended
exploration of religiosity in extreme states of bodily
consciousness.
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