Opinions
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Conceiving Death Metal While Confronting the Human Animal
In 1995, Chuck Schuldiner, an animal-lover with a habit of wearing a shirt decorated with kittens during interviews, lamented that…
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Black Metal Traditional Connection with LaVeyan Satanism
Since those opposing Satanism have been beguiled by the horror stories promoted in popular culture and have been less inclined…
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Widespread “Satanism” in Black Metal and its Demons
Satanism has been openly professed while blending traditional demonological fantasies with horror fiction while putting the demonic out in the…
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Extreme Death Metal as Purveyors of Modern Escapism
Although there are some Death Metal tracks and portions of songs that have what could be termed moderate or slow…
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Demons, Devils and Witches: The Occult in Heavy Metal Music
Discovering the connection between heavy metal music and Satanism as well as the occult, tracing its origins from American blues…
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Gothic and the Oriental Renaissance Transgressive Boundaries
The Gothic is frequently identified with two obsessions: a concern with otherness and alterity, and a compulsion to explore socially…
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Corpsepaint Towards the Re-Occultation of Black Metal Blood
This article address black metal as a strange form of environmental writing that “blackens” or addresses a “blackened” cosmos, responding…
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Goth Subculture Spirituality and Unique Visual Aesthetics
This article provides an ethnographic account of Goth subculture within a major metropolitan city in the northeastern United States of…
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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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British Gothic Subculture and the Ambivalence of 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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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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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the Gothic Monster’s Mother
Considering Frankenstein as an example of “the Female Gothic,” she argues that the novel was shaped by Mary Shelley’s experience…
