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THE BURST BEAT
The backbone of Transcendental Black metal is the Burst Beat.
The burst beat is a hyper blast beat, a blast beat that ebbs,
flows, expands and contracts, breaths. It replaces death and
atrophy with life and hypertrophy. This transformation is
accomplished by two features: acceleration and rupture.
The first feature of the burst beat is acceleration. The burst beat
accelerates and decelerates. It has an ebb and a flow. This flow
both mirrors life and stimulates life. It expands and contracts
like the tide, the economy, day and night, inhalation and
exhalation, life and death.
The second feature of the burst beat is rupture. The burst beat
features sudden ruptures or phase transitions. Just like all
natural systems, it breaks suddenly from one state to another.
Consider the horse as it switches from walk to trot to canter.
Consider water as it switches from ice to liquid to gas. The
moment of the rupture is the moment of transcendence. What is
holy if not the moment that water turns to steam? Or the
moment that a walk turns to a run?
The burst beat expresses an arc of intensity. It responds to and
supplements the melodic flow rather than providing a rhythmic
container or backdrop. The rate of change of the tempo, whether
positive or negative, corresponds to a level of intensity. Any
static tempo is a zero degree.
The burst requires total expenditure of power and its very
exercise fosters growth and increase of strength. And yet the
burst beat never arrives anywhere, eternally “not yet” at its
destination, eternally “almost” at the target tempo. Like a
nomad, the burst beat knows it will never arrive.
By mirroring life, the burst beat stimulates and fosters life. By
fostering life, Transcendental Black Metal affirms life.