I'm fairly certain everyone is familiar with this genre. It developed from the Cascade Range of Pacific Northwest of the US, according to last.fm, and is spreading like wildfire. Well, the Black Metal from that region anyway. A lot of long-winded Black Metal bands will be labeled as Cascadia no doubt, hell I'm gonna do it too. So, here will be a bunch of Long-Winded Cascadian Black Metal.
The book "Hideous Gnosis" discusses the transcendence of Black Metal from it's Norwegian roots (from the second wave of BM) dealing with Satanism and other topics, to what American Black Metal has grown into today, a more spiritual, natural evolution.
I've not finished the book yet, but it's an intriguing read if you can get past the dialect of a Black Metal Philosopher. Word upon word had to be looked up to understand what was going on and I'd like to think I'm fairly well off in reading ability.
