Opinions
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Aesthetics and the Symbolism of Extreme Metal Music
This chapter will explore a theory of aesthetics that allows one to ascertain a resonance between the various disparate aesthetic…
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Extreme Metal Modernity, Transgression, and the Grotesque
This article draws an examination of the particular symbol of defilement and its possibility for reading contemporary conceptions of fault…
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Trending Two-Sentence Horror Through the Skeletons of Stories
Horror is a genre that is found in many forms, from long novels to films, and from poetry to short…
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The Metal Age: The Use of Classics in Heavy Metal Music
It is a great time to be a fan of both the Classical world and heavy metal music: the two…
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Vampire in ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’
This article seeks to explore the manner in which Jim Jarmusch’s recent independent production ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ (2013) reinterprets…
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Surrealism and the Occult Esotericism in Movements
Although it garnered little attention at the time, this ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ heralded the existence of an avant-garde movement that…
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A Genre of Paradoxes and Dichotomies of Extreme Metal
In this opinion article, Matthew Unger describes common technical characteristics and innovations that typically characterise the extreme metal sound.
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Spiritualism, and the Supernatural in Mid-Victorian Britain
Mid-Victorian Britain had experienced the manifestations of spiritualism, undoubtedly one of the most controversial aspects of Victorian culture.
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Gothic and the Ambivalence of Misogyny and Resistance
Goth subculture emerged in the socioeconomic decline and Thatcherite politics of late 1970s Britain, on the heels of punk’s infamous…
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In Gothic Darkly Backgrounds: Heterotopia, History, Culture
The Enlightenment, which produced the maxims and models of modern culture, also invented the Gothic.
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Vampires Drinking Blood to Maintain the White Supremacy
The most critical trait of vampires is that they have to consume blood to keep their bodies functioning.
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Blood Desires, Vampiric Sexuality, and Heteronormativity
Vampires are in vogue: they have been for more than a century and the interest in vampire fiction in this…
