Steven Shearer: Ornament is Not a Crime. It is a Crypt.
“I think some contemporary subcultures can offer a kind of phrenological shortcut back to different epochs and their manners of appearance”
Tag Archives: Black Metal
Torbjørn Rødland: ‘Sasquatch Century’ – Pathology of a Sacred Striptease
Theirs will be a genetic lineage where Eden’s vast land has been bulldozed over for that of another Wal-Mart parking lot where their future generations will congregate to buy house paint while sipping numbness-inducing frozen latte’s from the Starbucks within. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, June 2015 It, to him, presents a stranglehold […]
Peter Beste’s ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’ (2008)
Leather, spikes, face paint, and brandished weapons are standard and go along with a clearly stated stance of outsider-dom. King of Hell Intro from True Norwegian Black Metal, 2008 By Johan Kugelberg and Peter Beste Over the last two decades, a bizarre and violent musical subculture called black metal has emerged in Norway. Its […]