Owen Coggins is Honorary Associate of the Religious Studies Department at the Open University and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Brunel University London, UK.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Mysticism and metal music2. To be experienced not understood: Empirical mysticisms in dub, trance and drone3. Beyond heaviness: Listener experience in a translocal and marginal genre4. Pilgrimages to elsewhere: Languages of ineffability, otherness, and ambiguity5. Amplifier worship: Materiality and mysticism in heavy sound6. Methods to cross the abyss: Ritual, violence and noise7. Conclusion: Drone metal mysticismReferencesIndex

Mysticism, Religion and Ritual in Drone Metal provides an interesting and persuasive look at an alternative expression of the human mystical impulse, as found in a seemingly secular, relatively unpopular form of pop culture.

Owen Coggins is Honorary Associate of the Religious Studies Department at the Open University and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Brunel University London, UK.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Mysticism and metal music2. To be experienced not understood: Empirical mysticisms in dub, trance and drone3. Beyond heaviness: Listener experience in a translocal and marginal genre4. Pilgrimages to elsewhere: Languages of ineffability, otherness, and ambiguity5. Amplifier worship: Materiality and mysticism in heavy sound6. Methods to cross the abyss: Ritual, violence and noise7. Conclusion: Drone metal mysticismReferencesIndex

Mysticism, Religion and Ritual in Drone Metal provides an interesting and persuasive look at an alternative expression of the human mystical impulse, as found in a seemingly secular, relatively unpopular form of pop culture.

Owen Coggins is Honorary Associate of the Religious Studies Department at the Open University and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Brunel University London, UK.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Mysticism and metal music2. To be experienced not understood: Empirical mysticisms in dub, trance and drone3. Beyond heaviness: Listener experience in a translocal and marginal genre4. Pilgrimages to elsewhere: Languages of ineffability, otherness, and ambiguity5. Amplifier worship: Materiality and mysticism in heavy sound6. Methods to cross the abyss: Ritual, violence and noise7. Conclusion: Drone metal mysticismReferencesIndex

Mysticism, Religion and Ritual in Drone Metal provides an interesting and persuasive look at an alternative expression of the human mystical impulse, as found in a seemingly secular, relatively unpopular form of pop culture.