Opinions
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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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Occult, Spiritual Movements and Esoteric Doctrines in Russia
Numerous religious and spiritual movements, which current scientific classifies as occultism, esotericism or alternative religion have been offering ways of…
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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…
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Undead Introduction to the Vampire and the Monstrous Other
Since their animation out of folk materials in the nineteenth-century by Polidori, as Varney, and in Le Fanu and Stoker,…
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The Origins and Lifestyle Definitions of the Gothic Subculture
Any distinctive subculture has its own world that must be explained, and the Gothic Subculture is one of these worlds…
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The Perichoresis of Black Metal Music, Art and Philosophy
The vision of Transcendental Black Metal appeared to me several years before the symposium, in around 2005
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The Numinous and Post-Gothic Ghost Experience Literature
The earliest instances of Gothic fiction can best be described as the guilty pleasures of a self-congratulatory period of Enlightenment
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Birmingham, England: The Cradle of all Things Heavy Metal
Much has been written about heavy metal from a sociological or ethnological perspective but very little in terms of the…
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Dissection and a Closer Look at Swedish Ritual Black Metal
In a more detailed look at the Ritual Black Metal scene, I will focus on several Swedish bands that have…
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The Contemporary Black Metal Scenic Institutions in Sweden
Occult elements were quite clearly present in the early Norwegian black metal scene, but it would take some time before…
