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  • No Fashion Records: The Chaotic Swedish Label That Unleashed Metal’s Bleakest Classics

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    No Fashion Records: The Chaotic Swedish Label That Unleashed Metal’s Bleakest Classics

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    While Britain danced to the optimistic sounds of Britpop, a chaotic Swedish record label gave birth to the bleak, melodic fury of black metal. This is the story of how No Fashion Records forged a genre-defining sound even as it collapsed under the weight of its own dysfunction.

  • The Mesopotamian

    Ereshkigal: The Queen of the Underworld and Her Influence on Mesopotamian Religious Practices

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    Irkalla, the Mesopotamian underworld ruled by Ereshkigal, is depicted as a realm of despair and darkness where the dead exist in a joyless state, stripped of identity and bound by the unyielding laws of divine judgment. In the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” Enkidu’s vision of Irkalla reflects Mesopotamian fears of death and the afterlife, portraying it…

    Ereshkigal: The Queen of the Underworld and Her Influence on Mesopotamian Religious Practices

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  • Ductape: The Alchemy of ‘Fine’ and the Resilient Promise of ‘Faded Flowers’

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    Ductape: The Alchemy of ‘Fine’ and the Resilient Promise of ‘Faded Flowers’

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    Turkish duo Ductape’s new single, ‘Fine,’ heralds an album that channels the legacy of Turkish artistic dissent, transforming the weight of past political ruptures into a sound that finds a strange, resilient beauty in ruin.

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  • Review

    Fleshgod Apocalypse: On ‘Opera,’ a Brush With Death Becomes a Masterpiece of Metal

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    Italian extreme metal band Fleshgod Apocalypse transforms personal trauma into artistic triumph on ‘Opera,’ their sixth studio album. Following frontman Francesco Paoli’s near-fatal climbing accident, the band crafts a 10-act theatrical narrative blending death metal with classical orchestration and soprano vocals from Veronica Bordacchini.

    Fleshgod Apocalypse: On ‘Opera,’ a Brush With Death Becomes a Masterpiece of Metal

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