For the King, for the Land, for the Mountains: Heavy Metal e Imaginação Política Reacionária

Abstract

There is a clear link between some subgenres of the style of music known as Heavy Metal, heroic-aristocratic literature and reactionary thinking. All these forces go through the rejection of bourgeois society in favor of a hierarchical society, through the granting of the position of primacy to the hero and through the cosmological foundation of this society. These connections can be observed through a series of readings ranging from Homer to Ernst Jünger, but which extend beyond the scope of literature to include cinema, comics and the plastic arts, and philosophy in a whole tradition which, behind a more or less adequate adaptation to the precepts of bourgeois society, criticizes it and elaborates its own vision of man and society. Heavy Metal serves, in this tradition, as a creator of spaces of conviviality and debate, synthesizer of thoughts and source of readings.