The Unbearable Weight of Light is a new body of sound work where I am working through a collection of cassette tapes found in a shed on my parents' property in rural Alabama, ranging from radio recordings, sermons, choir music, and even kids' meal prizes from fast food restaurants. This catalogue of sound objects serves as auditory artifacts of the environment I grew up in, yet have no long term memories of. I sample these tapes through digital and analogue processes, taking inspiration from musique concrète and harsh noise music in a new style I call Hauntological Harsh Noise. By pushing the sound artifacts of my childhood upbringing to their absolute limits through destructive editing processes, I approach what Helina Hunt Hindrex referred to in her essay "Transcendental Black Metal" as the Haptic Void, which refers to the hypothetical maximal level of intensity that all Black Metal is searching for. Though this search is ultimately in vain (it can always be darker, faster, louder), the pursuit of such an unreachable horizon parallels ecstatic pursuits of enlightenment, salvation, or gnosis. As a teenager who spent Sundays at church and Saturdays playing in a death metal band, I often saw parallels between the two ritual spaces that focused on the futility of the material world. Now, as I reexamine this collection of plastic sound artifacts, I cannot help but see how they represent social/political engineering and massive corporate interests, rather than anything radical or transformative. In this work, I hope that if I burn it all down, that which is truly sacred will endure the fire.