Search results for: “extreme metal”
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Edmonton and the Canadian Underground Metal Scene
This article examines extreme metal bands that became legendary in Edmonton and was well known across Canada for their atypical…
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A Brief Introduction to Death in Depressive Suicidal Black Metal
Depressive Suicidal Black Metal, a subculture primarily focused around death, with its own particular set of symbols, meanings, and music…
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Anti-War Sentiment and Transgression in Death Doom Metal
In this article, wie focus on two sub-styles of doom metal that took shape after the 1990s turn, namely stoner…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Dark Aesthetics in Christian Metal, and Religious Discourses
Metal, famously, has had always a particular relation to religious discourse, and bands often employ religious symbolism in their lyrics…
