Listenings
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Why Lyric Videos Matter for Underground Bands
While studio recordings and live shows remain crucial, lyric videos have become an essential tool for rising artists to connect…
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Sonic Visions and Urban Canvases: How Interactive Art Is Transforming Public Spaces
Urban centers have long been the stage for cultural expression, but something fascinating is happening across cities and festivals globally—an…
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The Evolution of Electric Guitar Techniques in Metal Music
The evolution of electric guitar techniques in metal music has significantly influenced the genre’s sound, expanding the instrument’s capabilities from…
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The Strange Connection Between Politics and Extreme Metal
From Slayer’s ‘Angel of Death’ in the 1980’s to the Norwegian black metal scene in the 1990’s to the current…
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Black Metal takes Norway’s Everyday Racisms to the Extreme
Black metal’s nationalistic racism can be seen as an “extreme” reflection of the xenophobia and cultural nationalism proliferating throughout Norwegian…
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Conceiving Death Metal While Confronting the Human Animal
In 1995, Chuck Schuldiner, an animal-lover with a habit of wearing a shirt decorated with kittens during interviews, lamented that…
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Black Metal Traditional Connection with LaVeyan Satanism
Since those opposing Satanism have been beguiled by the horror stories promoted in popular culture and have been less inclined…
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Widespread “Satanism” in Black Metal and its Demons
Satanism has been openly professed while blending traditional demonological fantasies with horror fiction while putting the demonic out in the…
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Extreme Death Metal as Purveyors of Modern Escapism
Although there are some Death Metal tracks and portions of songs that have what could be termed moderate or slow…
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Demons, Devils and Witches: The Occult in Heavy Metal Music
Discovering the connection between heavy metal music and Satanism as well as the occult, tracing its origins from American blues…
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Corpsepaint Towards the Re-Occultation of Black Metal Blood
This article address black metal as a strange form of environmental writing that “blackens” or addresses a “blackened” cosmos, responding…