What historical period is more associated with darkness than the Middle Ages? One of our favorite songs from the black metal band Satyricon is aptly titled Dark Medieval Times, which is also the title of their first album. Dark Medieval Times is a heavy piece, with a powerful build-up. The part with the flute with […]
Gothic Specificity and Autonomous Paths The very first Italian goths are, as we saw in the first part of this article, absolute outsiders, both from the society of forced hedonism and the superficial well-being of 1980s Italy, as well as from the mode of direct confrontation and hyper-politicized behavior script of the punks. Many of
“[17] And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; [18] And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and
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Black. The color of fertile earth, night, and crow’s wings. Black is coal, the darkness of death, the color Mick Jagger wants everything to turn into when darkness strikes him. Eddie Vedder and Amy Winehouse sing it as the color of loss, mutilation, and the end of love. Black bile is what leads to psychotic
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During our rather solitary, quirky, nomadic, and unaffiliated early youth, there was a place that, throughout our psychogeographical explorations of subcultures, we frequented and perhaps loved more than any other. We loved it for various reasons. First of all, the music was dope. Death in June, Athamay, Public Image Limited, Virgin Prunes. Everything seemed frozen
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