‘Doing-listening' with Deranged's struck by a murderous siege: an auto-ethnography of death metal vinyl consumption

This paper deals with vinyl records from the perspective of the cultural study of everyday life. It focuses on the author's rituals of vinyl consumption, using as a case study Deranged's Struck by a murderous siege (2016). It is shown that in an era of media convergence listening to vinyl records is an activity in which variety of media participate in 'doing-listening', a process that involves the invocation of a unique secret knowledge developed over social relationships with people and things, and memories of past experiences, through which the intertextual nature of death metal texts is revealed and the doer-listener produces their own culture. In that sense, the value of vinyl records cannot be estimated in advance, based on "objective" attributes - such as size of artork, distinctiveness of sound, aura attribution - or feelings of technostalgia, but, instead, accrues through the proccess of co-production through doing-listening with texts.