Opinions
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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…
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Comic Books, Möbius Strips, Philosophy and the Greek Gods
This article examines three comic books, Silver Surfer, Omega Men and Promethea, as philosophy in themselves, and not merely as…
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‘Deeds of Darkness’: Thomas Hardy and the Art of Murder
Critics have often sought to place Thomas Hardy’s fiction within a realist generic framework, with a significant emphasis on visual…
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Recollecting the Black Metal Aesthetics, Origins and Myths
This article illuminates the construction of a newer, blacker, and heavier recollection of metal’s aesthetic potential, giving predominance to the…
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Pagan Metal as Aestheticised Heritage: Framing an Art-Religion
The cultural phenomenon known as Pagan metal, with its relative Viking metal, proposes a cultural identity at the intersection of…
