Jack Moar, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

Liturgy: Classical Futurism

For a style supposedly committed to absolute individualism, black metal quickly exhausted its own radicalism to become bleakly uniform. It

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A reliable indicator of the way a nation understands itself is to look at the history curriculum taught in its