Listenings
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Heavy Metal, and Cultural Markers for the End of the Century
Heavy Metal is a specific, alternative music genre that exists on the fringe of popular music, where its own culture…
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History of Traditional Folk Metal and the Circle of Influence
The primary focus of this article is to correlate the traditional folk music from different countries around the world to…
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Masking and Sonic Abjection in Norwegian Black Metal
This article explores the connections between black metal and the transgressions of this music subculture, with masking at the intersection…
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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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A Brief Introduction to Death in Depressive Suicidal Black Metal
Depressive Suicidal Black Metal, a subculture primarily focused around death, with its own particular set of symbols, meanings, and music…
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Anti-War Sentiment and Transgression in Death Doom Metal
In this article, wie focus on two sub-styles of doom metal that took shape after the 1990s turn, namely stoner…
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Enter the Labyrinth: A Psychedelic Topography of Goth Music
This article attends to how goth music can be meaningfully compared to the effects of drugs like mescaline, psilocybin and…
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Colour, Surface, and Reinterpretation Covered by Goth Artists
This article then examines how songs covered by goth artists provide insight into this often misunderstood subculture and musical genre.
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Goth Artists and their Homage Approach to Music Covers
This study begins by presenting an overview of the British goth movement and its music, explaining why the subculture embraced…
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Gothic Covers: British Goth Music, Subculture and Ideology
Musical groups popular with the goth movement were particularly adept at remaking songs to reflect their sensibilities and express their…
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The Becomings of Satanist Musicianship Through Black Metal
A study of how black metal musicians describe their learning processes in the last twenty years, this when the focus…
