Why do you listen to this? experiencing black metal

Abstract

This paper takes a look at why people enjoy listening to dreadful and frightening music. The experience of listening to Black Metal is reconstructed with Immanuel Kant’s notion of the Sublime and in contrast to classical music. The paper states that the feeling of Sublimity afforded by Black Metal differs from that of classical music by the first’s lack of the feeling of security. It concludes that Black Metal thus allows us profound experiences of the world not to found elsewhere in art.