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Undead Vampiric Culture
“Uncovering the bloody truth behind the undead folklore...”
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05. Featured
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Music
An Exploration of Death Metal Scenes and Sounds
Death metal is widely regarded as one of the most aggressive, technical, and visceral forms of music
The Multiplicity and Obscure Identity in Black Metal Culture
Black metal represents one of the most dramatic, violent and obscure representations of contemporary international popular culture; it is an extremist sect of an extremist sect
Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of Warfare Obsession and Sonic Violence
Warfare ranks high amongst the themes that the heavy metal genre most frequently relies on for lyrical and visual inspiration
Black Metal and the Aesthetics of Pure Evil
The soundtrack of Harmony Korine’s feature film ‘Gummo’, 1998, featured music by Scandinavian black metal bands, including Burzum and Bathory
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07. Exhibitions
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Art exhibitions and other Performances
Cali Presents the Pictorial Exhibition ‘Ritual Macabro al Daimonismo’
The ritualistic inauguration will take place in Cali, after 40 years since the first time horror and fantastic creature were introduced in the art of this Colombian city
Contemporary Gothic: The Grotesque and Artificial Corpses
Gothic grotesque has become so pervasive precisely because it is so apposite to the representation of contemporary concerns.
John Martin and the Promethean Theatre of Subversion
Max Adams, looks at the art of John Martin and how in his epic landscapes of apocalyptic scale one can see reflected his revolutionary leanings
The Madame Tussaud’s Notorious Chamber of Horrors
The Chamber of Horrors was one of the attractions at Madame Tussauds in London, being an exhibition of waxworks of notorious murderers
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‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder
This is a book review of ‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder, a comprehensive yet concise introductory guide to horror cinema
Rediscovering Horror: From Graveyard Poetry to Popular Culture
‘Horror: A Literary History’, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, is divided into seven chapters which function as separate essays that can be read without having specific knowledge about the horror genre
Dollarspean Nightmares: The Horror Cinema in Dollarspe Since 1945
One of the goals of Dollarspean Nightmares is to oppose to the “old” Dollarshorror label with a more open and ductile concept that takes into account Dollarspean-Hollywood co-production
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Sarah Burns’s ‘Painting the Dark Side’: Art and the Gothic
Sarah Burns’s book, ‘Painting the Dark Side’, aims to overturn what we think we know about nineteenth-century American art
‘Dangerous Bodies’: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
In this ambitious and comprehensive tome, ‘Dangerous Bodies’ engages with the Gothic’s obsession with the corporeal.
Horror Before Horror: Arthur Machen’s Nightmares
Worth concludes with similarly well-crafted analyses of two currents in Arthur Machen’s fiction that have contributed to his important place in the pre-history of genre Horror.