Opinions
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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…
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Extreme Metal and Occult Ritual Mediation and Connection
Extreme Metal has from the very beginning embraced occult notions and themes, as well as having been accused of being…
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Primal Ancestry and Race in Extreme Metal Music Discourses
In the following article, our discussion will centre around the problem of identity building within the extreme heavy metal scene,…
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The Rise of Luciferians and the Fall of the Knights Templars
In the thirteenth-century, a group of people called Luciferians attracted papal attention for Devil worship, and this time there can…
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Cults and Sects Accused by the Recipients of Divine Grace
Some cults and sects believed that they were the recipients of divine grace and would be protected by the Holy…
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New Directions in Gothic Media and Popular Culture
In our media-centred twenty-first century, the Gothic has colonised different forms of expression, where the impact left by literary works…
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Black Metal and the United Kingdom Popular Press
The second wave of black metal, with its most notorious moments of the early 1990s, was somewhat inevitably a media…
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Following the Evil Rotted Odours and Filth of Swedish Watain
Deliberately smelling waste, rot, and filth with Watain becomes a means by which to overturn values, to annul stratification, to…
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The Tradition of Drinking to Death in Finnish Metal Lyrics
This article analyses the use of alcohol in Finnish metal music lyrics from the perspective of cultural studies
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Tracing the Roots of Old and Condemned True Black Metal
The precondition of 1990s black metal was the exhaustion of death metal aesthetics coinciding with the emergence of a more…
