Listenings
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Heavy Metal Alternative Spiritualities and Religious Change
Recent decades have seen a growing interest in a wide range of alternative religions and spiritualities in the West.
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Black Metal, Satanism, Evil, and the Essence of all Darkness
Death Metal was the most radical form of Extreme Metal available before Black Metal was born.
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History of Religion: Outlines of Heavy and Extreme Metal
Taking one step closer to or farther from popular and high culture, the world of subcultures may offer many strange…
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Black Metal in Contemporary Art as a Way of Expansion
This semiology actually reveals that Black Metal makes the most of art to enlarge its field of influence.
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Death, the Gothic, and Reflections on Musical Matters
One’s mortality was all too obvious. However, things are rather different in modern Western societies.
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The Other Side of Black Metal and Artistic Aesthetics
Contemporary Black Metal art is always a matter of denotation, and with the arrival of the media, it critically consumes…
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Heavy Metal Lyricism and the Purest Gothic Behind
Since Black Sabbath, elements of the Gothic have pervaded the genre, whether in the lyrics, by the sound or by…
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Thrash Metal’s Evident Social Impact on the World
From speed and thrash metal to the hideous imagery of death metal and the evilness of black metal, these genres…
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Ideologies And Discourses In Extreme Metal Music
Historically speaking, metal music has always been about provoking a strong reaction, due to ideologies and ideas that are the…
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The Freudian Compulsion View In Depressive Suicidal Black Metal
In the postmodern era, the domination of repetition in aesthetics allows for deeper meaning to be conveyed with limited musical…
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The Modern Heritage and Mythology of Pagan Viking Metal
Ancient heritage intersects with the fragmentary postmodern condition where musicians might use both Pagan and Viking Mythology to forge an…
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The Beatles and the Edward Alexander Crowley relation
On June 1st, 1967, the most influential musicians in the world released a new long-playing record whose jacket depicted a…
