Genital Shame

With one hand digging down to touch deep black metal roots and the other hand extending skyward to jubilantly signal sovereignty, Genital Shame simultaneously acknowledges the darkness and rises above it, in a most resplendent and singular way. Genital Shame is a queering of the sonic traditions and musical form of black metal –– perhaps an antagonism of the genre’s rules. It is, in Erin Dawson’s words, “an interrogation of how far you can get towards breaking those rules without it being something else.” Those very delicate, precise rules and also the overarching themes and modes of black metal motivate Dawson. And, as one might expect, the result is something which is both black metal and perhaps not at all. 'Acting as the sole composer, producer, and performer, she utilizes the control available to her, toying with the texture of clipping guitars and cymbals, crafting melody out of the dissonant ambiguous tingle of distorted semitones clashing against one another." - via Bandcamp - Album of the Day