Author: Matthew P. Unger
Matthew P. Unger
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The Defilement and Profaned Symbols in Extreme Metal
Extreme metal explores many different stories, myths, and symbols in expressing the particular aesthetic experience of defilement
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Edmonton and the Canadian Underground Metal Scene
This article examines extreme metal bands that became legendary in Edmonton and was well known across Canada for their atypical…
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Extreme Metal Origins, Occult, and Satanism: A Social Stain
This article has sought to outline what I have seen to constitute the experience of defilement in the extreme metal…
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Dark Aesthetics in Christian Metal, and Religious Discourses
Metal, famously, has had always a particular relation to religious discourse, and bands often employ religious symbolism in their lyrics…
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Aesthetics and the Symbolism of Extreme Metal Music
This chapter will explore a theory of aesthetics that allows one to ascertain a resonance between the various disparate aesthetic…
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Extreme Metal Modernity, Transgression, and the Grotesque
This article draws an examination of the particular symbol of defilement and its possibility for reading contemporary conceptions of fault…
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A Genre of Paradoxes and Dichotomies of Extreme Metal
In this opinion article, Matthew Unger describes common technical characteristics and innovations that typically characterise the extreme metal sound.
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The Aesthetic Near Death Experience of Extreme Metal
The musical subgenre and subculture of heavy metal, extreme metal, reinforces the idea that grotesque art forms exemplify religion’s significance
