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58<li id='exhibit_59' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/project/tunsteinen-the-yard-stone/'>Tunsteinen (The Yard Stone)</a></li>
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64<li id='exhibit_21' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/project/lair-of-the-neo-diggers/'>Lair of the Neo-Diggers</a></li>
65<li id='exhibit_24' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/project/the-anthro-cephalopodic-amalgamation-retreat/'>The Anthro-Cephalopodic Amalgamation Retreat</a></li>
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78<li id='exhibit_57' class='exhibit_title active'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/btf-v-zine/'>BTF V zine</a></li>
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81<li id='exhibit_17' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/project/on-the-edge-of-epping-forest/'>On the edge of Epping Forest</a></li>
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84<li id='exhibit_35' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/nekrosus-flexidisc/'>Nekrosus flexidisc</a></li>
85<li id='exhibit_34' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/btf-i-zine/'>BTF I zine</a></li>
86<li id='exhibit_36' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/le-bon-accueil-exhibition/'>Becoming the Forest (solo show)</a></li>
87<li id='exhibit_37' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/black-metal-beyond-the-darkness-book/'>Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness book</a></li>
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100<li id='exhibit_45' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/larps--workshops/hal-silver-day--night/'>Hal Silver: Day & Night</a></li>
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107<li id='exhibit_46' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/collaborative--curatoria/ploughing-old-patterns-raising-new-ground/'>Ploughing Old Patterns, Raising New Ground</a></li>
108<li id='exhibit_47' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/collaborative--curatoria/waking-the-witch/'>Waking the Witch</a></li>
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111<li id='exhibit_51' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/collaborative--curatoria/hal-silver-transmuters-echo/'>Hal Silver: Transmuter's Echo</a></li>
112<li id='exhibit_49' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/collaborative--curatoria/hal-silver-speaks/'>Hal Silver Speaks</a></li>
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119<li id='exhibit_61' class='exhibit_title'><a href='https://unahamiltonhelle.co.uk/index.php/writing/building-relations-with-a-stone/'>Building Relations with a Stone</a></li>
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158<p><strong>Becoming the Forest Issue V</strong><br />
159<em>Traversing the subterranean passages of the caverns of black metal<br />
160</em><br />
161<em>Becoming the Forest</em> as a project interrogates the entangled relationship we humans have with our surroundings, inspired by the ecological strands of black metal, and for this issue we have truly gone underground, both in a musical and topographical sense.</p>
162
163<p>BTF V has essays on animist Norwegian stone customs, the dark topographies of Table Top Roleplaying, a long form poem about the endless horizons of the Northern hemisphere and eight interviews with musicians and bands 

163who have emerged from the fertile humus of contemporary black metal.</p>
164
165<p><strong>Contributors and bands:</strong> </p>
166
167<p>Lotte Brown, Úna Hamilton Helle, Stu Horvath, Ild, Bekah Lunn, Menace Ruine, Mycologia, Oerheks, Panopticon, Peace Vaults, Returning, Tom Sewell, Andrew Walter, Wulvyr.</p>
168
169<p>Edited by Úna Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown<br />
170Published by Het Bos Antwerpen<br />
171Designed by Tom Sewell<br />
172Supported by the Norwegian Arts Council &#38; ERC<br />
173148 pages<br />
174210x135mm<br />
175printed in black &#38; white, some colour<br />
176£17<br />
177ISBN 9789082988031</p>
178
179<p>Publication date: 8 August 2025</p>
180
181<p><a href="https://becomingtheforest.bigcartel.com/product/becoming-the-forest-v-pre-order" target='_blank'>ORDER HERE</a></p>
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184Table of Contents</strong></p>
185
186<p><strong>Earthbound Rocks and Thunder Stones: Tales from Norwegian Stone Culture<br />
187</strong>By Úna Hamilton Helle<br />
188<em>Wherein glacial rocks and cup marked stones are greeted and honoured as neighbours<br />
189</em><br />
190<strong>Interview: Wulvyr (GB)<br />
191</strong><em>In which the Waste Walker digs into fertile soil to find that all life comes from the ground up</em></p>
192
193<p><strong>Interview: Menace Ruine (CA)<br />
194</strong><em>In which quiet cabin living reveals the true cacophony of nature’s rhythm<br />
195</em><br />
196<strong>Fiat Lux!</strong><br />
197By Stu Horvath<br />
198<em>Wherein we descend to fantastical depths and probe the limits of darkness<br />
199</em><br />
200<strong>Interview: Peace Vaults (AT)</strong><br />
201<em>In which an archer meets wild boars in the Viennese woods, almost as if in a dream<br />
202</em><br />
203<strong>Interview: Oerheks (BE)</strong><br />
204<em>In which an old oak stands strong as the sole survivor of an ancient forest<br />
205</em><br />
206<strong>Building Relations with a Stone: Pointers for an Animist Art Practice<br />
207</strong>By Úna Hamilton Helle<br />
208<em>Wherein a lithic encounter opens up a portal to the underworld<br />
209</em><strong><br />
210Interview: Mycologia (US)</strong><br />
211<em>In which a New Englander delves into the understorey on the hunt for fruiting bodies<br />
212</em><br />
213<strong>A Hare Running</strong><br />
214By Lotte Brown<br />
215<em>Wherein the sky is upside down and some figures drowning in fleece try to follow the horizon<br />
216</em><br />
217<strong>Interview: Returning (US)</strong><br />
218<em>In which the porous bodies of salmon, herons and humans move amongst a numinous land filled with ancestral voices</em><br />
219<strong><br />
220Interview: Ild (NO)</strong><br />
221<em>In which a fire still burns amidst the death cloak of life<br />
222</em><br />
223<strong>Imaginary Standing Stones</strong><br />
224Drawings by Tom Sewell<br />
225<em>Wherein the bones of the earth hover in the air<br />
226</em><br />
227<strong>Interview: Panopticon (US)</strong><em><br />
228In which freezing temperatures are endured in the fight for an inhabitable world</em></p></div>
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