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

Heavy Metal is a specific, alternative music genre that exists on the fringe of popular music, where its own culture classifies it: musical style, fashion, philosophy, symbolic language and political activism

The primary focus of this article is to correlate the traditional folk music from different countries around the world to contemporary folk metal bands, to substantiate a link between historical, cultural heritage to the progressive qualities of bands in the sub-genre of folk metal

This article explores the connections between black metal and the transgressions of this music subculture, with masking at the intersection between the two

Extreme metal explores many different stories, myths, and symbols in expressing the particular aesthetic experience of defilement

This article examines extreme metal bands that became legendary in Edmonton and was well known across Canada for their atypical technicality and ferocious genuinity