language lust pt 1

I've made the "joke" a couple of times on twitter that the Drain of Impurity song titles are the book of the year

,  i think it's something that at face value is a joke but i would much rather read that than most books, Tbh for the past few years, perhaps through some disillusionment with publishing or the gamesmanship of literature I've found much more textual inspiration and a refinement of my eye in the prose of slam (or brutal death metal or slamming brutal death metal or tags ad infinitum) track listings, other metal text creeps into the language life as well, Carcass (and their infinite progeny) song lyrics

, once derided in favor of the storytelling (lol) stylings of your Chris Barnes'ses and the like are crucial for their antiseptic encyclopedia entry distancing of the reader from the maker through use of jargon and utter lack of poetry, and some black metal song titles, just this past week Darkthrone released a record with a song called Beneath the Sea of Seas Beneath the Sea, or something, I'm not going to look it up, also reflecting back on a language life Kataklysms ridiculous TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE record was pretty pivotal as well, should I look up some excerpts, yeah here's a placeholder parenthesis (

), perhaps it's useful to be reflective on my attraction to these word employments, one key, i think, is that these all have the sensibilities of your lorem ipsum placeholder text, its hard to give the boys in Kraanium a lot more credit than that, sure there is an intentionality there based on tropic indulgence and tone which I'll get to, but it's the phrasing texture that is an initial entry point, what is at stake to make a text that is unlikely to be read, what is the appropriate methodology for its making AND what is the intent or expectation for its functionality, decisions about these are intertwined obviously, you can't make something without a methodology and you can't select or operate within a methodology if you don't have a presumption about how someone other than yourself can engage with the thing, i think that's one of the things i like about the Castle freak books and the project of them in general, the expectation i think is that you're not required to read the book in its entirety because it's not "written by a person", you can read it, but i don't think you have to, i don't think there is a methodology per se that Dragging Entrails uses to write their texts, and as with architecture i get much more personal enjoyment out of things that are made effectively (effective to me) without much intention behind them, for someone with an overburden of intentions it is perhaps inspiring, but i think what i like more is the ability to take ownership of it because it feels like nobody lays claim to it, if there is a text, a Maggot Colony song lyrics, the delivery of lyrics is irrelevant, one could argue that song titles are also irrelevant in the Era of streaming and colossal mp3 libraries (does anyone else still do this but me), if there is no one there to engage, no expectation of engagement, it feels like it is mine alone to appreciate. 

Endnotes: i won't get to tropics and tone here. Other topic for a further entry in this series is metal as world music and the benefits of ESL on the texture of slam texts...

Thanks to the greatest website on earth, the metal archives, you'd be better off reading that than lit hub.