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 to create the genre known as Death Metal
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 have created a particular image of Satanism that is often at odds with the reality
Satanism has been openly professed while blending traditional demonological fantasies with horror fiction while putting the demonic out in the open
Although there certainly exist some Death Metal songs, and parts of songs, which exhibit what might be considered comparatively moderate or slow tempos, Death Metal is predominantly an extremely fast and aggressive style of music
This article investigates the association of heavy metal music with Satanism and the occult, tracing its lineage from American blues to the British Blues Boom of the 1960s to the beginnings of heavy metal in the late 1960s to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that emerged in the 1970s
This article address black metal as a strange form of environmental writing that “blackens” or addresses a “blackened” cosmos, responding to the conjuration of a new word and concept that conjoins “black” and “ecology”: melancology
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