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Music
Extreme Metal Subculture and the Feeling of Community
This article contextualises the investigation into the behaviours, investments and attachments of Extreme Metal fans with a need to outset and to clarify what Extreme Metal is
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
Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of Warfare Obsession and Sonic Violence
This article discusses how warfare ranks high amongst the themes that the heavy metal genre most frequently relies on for lyrical and visual inspiration
Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity
From the very beginnings of heavy metal in the late 1960s, guitar players had experimented with the musical materials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European composers
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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
European Nightmares: The Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945
One of the goals of European Nightmares is to oppose to the “old” Dollarshorror label with a more open and ductile concept that takes into account European-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.
The Gothic, Violent Intervention of ‘Une Semaine de bonté’
In the year that ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ came out, as I have indicated, another novel featuring a murder on a train appeared.
Festival Rock al Parque Opening Taken to the Extreme
The first day of Festival Rock al Parque came as a punch in your face full of extreme sounds and mosh pits
Dark Tranquillity Memorable Performance at Festival Rock al Parque
Despite the unworthy contention caused by overall attendees, musicians and media press, Colombian festivals such as Festival Rock al Parque
Apocalyptica Performance Opens Festival Del Diablo III
Festival del Diablo III triumphantly inaugurated with an intimate concert, Apocalyptica, which also marked the festival’s first documentary ever filmed
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The phenomenon of Dark Tourism travel undertaken to visit places associated with death or suffering, also called black tourism or grief tourism
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