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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 the primal solos of the…
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 strain of National Socialist Black…
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 society and of the “everyday”…
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 he had never really intended…
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 actually to study Satanism, they…
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 open
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 tempos, Death Metal is mostly…
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 through extreme metal
