![]() ![]() If you’re unfamiliar with the name, don’t beat yourself up about it. ![]() Oh, that’s right: the subject of this, the second, delayed iteration of Maps of Meaning is Michael Moorcock. This is doubly true for this iteration’s subject, by the way, as a few ( really good) lists of bands that evoke or directly reference Michael Moorcock’s literature already exist on this wonderful, broken thing we call The Internet. Nor is the idea of this column to merely shoot off a list of recommendations that all revolve around a certain author or setting and call it a day. Oh, in case you don’t remember (which, considering the two year delay, who can blame you?), the entire purpose of this column is to go deeper into how literature has influenced metal (and, in this case, vice versa) beyond just the usual examples that come to the mind of every metalhead when the two terms are mentioned in the same sentence. Regardless, I don’t think I’m going to promise any sort of regularity to this column (I mean, come on what was I thinking when I tried to make this a monthly thing?) but I do want to start using it more regularly to look at the ties between literature and metal. Excuses? Literature is hard? The world burns around us? General procrastination and anxiety? Take your pick. Well, it has been two years plus a few days and I am now sitting down to write the second installment in this supposedly “monthly column”. When I wrote the introduction to the first entry in the Maps of Meaning column, I used the word “monthly”. ![]()
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