Hulder ā Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry (Iron Bonehead)
Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry is the first proper LP from one-woman black metal band Hulder. One woman? Thatās interesting. One-man black metal acts have a long and storied history in the genre, and their proliferation has mapped easily onto a number of romantic archetypes of the artist: the choleric misanthrope (Leviathan, Ill Omen, etc.); the tortured, psychologically volatile recluse (Xasthur, Unreqvited, etc.); the lone wandervogel in the wild (Panopticon, Deafest, etc.). And so on. Given the ideological parameters that structure our western imaginaryās idea of the individual, itās no surprise that those isolate archetypes should be so emphatically gendered as masculine. And that may be a tough set of parameters for a woman to disrupt and to place herself among. Black metal still occupies a fairly idiosyncratic place in music, but underneath the corpsepaint, itās only rock and roll. All the typical iconography (the spectacularly spiked leather armor, the goatās horns, the bullet-lined bandoliers) is culturally coded as male. So whatās a project like Hulder to do?
Apparently, move to Portland and put out some records. Belgian-born Marz Riesterer has released a number of demos and small-batch cassettes as Hulder, and like those earlier recordings, Godslasteringā¦ pays obeisance to Second-Wave orthodoxy: raw, abrasive guitar tone; rasped and croaked vocals; lots and lots of blasts. Perhaps that indicates Hulderās deep appreciation for black metalās Northern European traditions, and some folksā very strong investments in those traditions. For sure, you can hear echoes of Vlad Tepes and the early Ulver in songs like āSown in Barren Soilā and the terrific āLowland Famine.ā But thereās another way to read Hulderās cleaving to conventional forms. She may be demonstrating that she knows the forms, how they work and what they mean, in a sort of symbolic pre-emptive strike. The reactionary kvlty trolls might object to her sex, but theyāll have a tough time finding fault with the music.Ā
Perhaps this focus on gender and sex does an injustice to Hulder. We should be listening to the songs, not fussing over genitalia. But most of the promotional images that Hulder has circulated along with the music insist that we see a womanāand a few of those images verge on cheesecake. She invokes some long-standing visual vocabularies for woman in the video for āUpon Frigid Winds.ā She is either the waif in white cotton, bearing a wicker basket through the woods; or she is the witch in black, cowled and grimacing between torches. (This reviewer finds it charming that she seems to be wearing black leather combat boots under the white dressā¦) Itās a fine song, full of drama, moody organs and robust riffs. But the stale images distract, and the fact that the waify blonde with the basket transforms into the witch does little to dislodge their authoritative positions as bare alternatives for representation of woman.Ā
Hulder is on more productive aesthetic terrain with her music. Some of the best songs on the LP seem to take seriously the grim terms of its title: āSown in Barren Soil,ā āA Forlorn Peasantās Hymn,ā the aforementioned āLowland Famine.ā Too many black metal bands have an overly rosy notion of pre-modern human sociality; they imagine an organic integration, of people and nature, in which things are vigorously hale and pure. That sounds a lot like the Renaissance pastoral mode, which was a court phenomenon, an aristocratic reaction to the rise of a new and powerful mercantile class. Its bullshit renditions of shepherds piping on verdant swards included no notice of the peasantryās backbreaking work and privations. Hulderās songs have little patience for that sort of nonsense. Her music is rough and rudeāand those arenāt critical terms. They are the right tones for the themes. The laboring peasant woman is a figure that western culture should reckon with. One-woman black metal, which requires that a woman sweat and toil, is a useful musical tool for doing some of that important work.Ā
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