Term coined by Haella Hunt Hendrix in her paper "Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism," published in Hideous Gnosis - Black Metal Theory Symposium 1, to refer to the genre of music played by her band Liturgy. It is contrasted with second-wave black metal, known as "Hyperborean Black Metal" and it notable for the use of "burst beats" as opposed to blast beats. The controversial paper, commonly referred to as a Hendrix's "manifesto," is written in dense academic language and resulted in many metalheads reflexively hating Liturgy on the basis of Hendrix's writing alone.
Nearly every other band besides Liturgy with the tag "transcendental black metal" on last.fm has been tagged ironically.
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
