I've no idea what happens at a Black Metal theory symposium but, according to the blurb, 'malign essences' will be discussed:
MELANCOLOGY
Black Metal Theory Symposium II
13 January 2011
The Fighting Cocks
Old London Road
Kingston-upon-Thames, London
1-11pm
Another gathering dedicated to the mutual blackening of metal and theory
"
The Black Metal Theory Symposium invites speculation and interventions on the blackening of the earth, landscapes of extinction, starless aeon, sempiternal nightmares, black horizons, malign essences, Qliphothic forces from beyond ... in a general re-conceptualization of black ecology. "
http://blackmetaltheory.blogspot.com...posium-ii.html
I seriously can't wait for this.