Black Metal Book Club

Black Metal Book Club

Frequently Asked Questions

And the assumed answers

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Seth
Feb 19, 2024
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I get asked a lot of questions about this group, sometimes in person, and sometimes in the form of hate threads on reddit1. Here’s a post quickly answering all of the most common questions.

Where are the books?

No books allowed. Next question.

Do y’all really take this that seriously?

No, you idiot. Do we look like a bunch of Norwegian edgelords to you?

Wait - we do? Oh. Well… next question.

What is it y’all even do?

We hang out and listen to black metal. Sometimes, other metal genres. Sometimes, we don’t even listen to metal at all. The short answer is “nothing”.

The even longer answer is that - once a week - we play music together at the home of whoever has yet to piss off their neighbors. The next day, we host a record club at Two Tides Brewing. The day after, we take over the music at White Whale Craft Ales. Other times, we brainstorm events in a joint effort with other local collectives of a similar crowd, such as the folks at Neighborhood Comics or Chosen Creatures, a local queer collect…

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