Mysticism and metal music -- To be experienced not understood : empirical mysticisms in dub, trance, and drone -- Beyond heaviness : listener experience in a translocal and marginal genre -- Pilgrimages to elsewhere : languages of ineffability, otherness, and ambiguity -- Amplifier worship : materiality, and mysticism in heavy sound -- Methods to cross the abyss : ritual, violence, and noise -- Drone metal mysticism.