As a philosopher, I am currently interested in alternative concepts of God, pantheism, panpsychism and Romanticism.
My work ranges across individual thinkers in the European tradition of continental philosophy of religion and theology - especially Kierkegaard and Derrida - aesthetics and posthumanism.
Black Metal Theology: Divine Decay in Creation, Incarnation and Sacrament
My next book comes out with Anthem press in late 2026/2027.
Black metal is a genre of extreme music often seen as utterly opposed to Christian theology, but this book argues that simply putting black metal and theology in opposition is simplistic. It offers a set of coherent reflections upon – or rather, performances of – ‘black metal theology’.
Like black metal theory, black metal theology is a mutual blackening and complication of black metal and theology. It is not merely an attempt to think theologically upon the body of black metal, or to extract its themes, but to hear black metal as a discourse on God, a talking/singing/making heard of God in which divine simplicity is fatally compromised, while releasing divinity into the transmutative power of decomposition.
The result is a rethinking of the divine as expressed in the intimate processes of worldly dissonance and decay.
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Recent Academic Articles and Chapters
'The Apocalyptic Mary: The Labour of Creation and the End of the World' in Maria 5.1 (May 2025), pp. 1-17.
'The Logic of Expression in Philosophy of Religion: Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty' in Melita Theologica 75.1 (2025), pp. 41-57.
'Don Cupitt and the State of Radical Theology' in Modern Believing 65.3 (Summer 2024), pp. 267-77
‘Pretty in Black: The Temptation to Melody and Ambience in Black Metal’ in Daniel Lukes and Stanimir Panayatov, Black Metal Rainbows, (Oakland: PM Press, 2023), pp. 283-301.
