Black metal jako kontynuacja romantyzmu? O figurze artysty i stosunku do natury jako korzeniach gatunku
Black metal as a continuation of Romanticism? About the figure of an artist and the attitude to Nature as the roots of the genre

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this article is to determine the roots of the extreme music genre black metal. The author notices links to the artistic anthropology of Romanticism and the reception of nature characteristic of that time. Considering the first problem, he draws attention to the relationship between the lyrical message of black metal songs and political life, as well as to the realization of the romantic-modernist figure of the artist-madman and the tormented artist who also has mediumistic features. An important element of this image is transgressive Satanism. The second group of problems is connected with the romantic attitude toward nature that is observed in black metal music. Nature there becomes a space to escape from the modern, technocratic, neoliberal world and offers a chance to consolidate an individual’s identity. Much attention is paid to the relationship between the American black metal scene and poets considered to be the precursors of ecocriticism; attention is also drawn to the resentment-based return of nationalizing black metal to a rustic past.

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