Subscriber Playlist (November 2022): The Blackest of Gazes

Subscribers can listen to a selection of songs from the “blackgaze” genre in all of their extreme beauty.

On the one hand, you have the dreamy sounds of shoegaze, as typified by effects pedal-loving artists like Lush, My Bloody Valentine, and Slowdive. On the other hand, you have the dark, blistering, and controversial sounds of black metal, as typified by the dissonant riffs and torturous shrieks of Burzum, Darkthrone, and Gorgoroth.

Obviously, nobody in th…