All Hail the Goat
Goats are one of the most recognisable symbols in Satanic imagery — from medieval depictions of the Devil to the modern figure of Baphomet. But how did an ordinary farm animal become so closely associated with sin and the demonic?
Jorvik Viking Festival: Nordicness, Metal and Politics of the Past
I finally made it to the Jorvik Viking march this year. Four years of living in York and somehow I’d always managed to miss it. Work, weather, other plans… There was always an excuse. So, when my day off lined up with the finale of the Festival it felt like I’d accidentally timed things pretty perfectly.
“On This Battlefield, No One Wins”: Iron Maiden’s Construction of War, Morality, and the Sound of Evil in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
How Iron Maiden sonically constructs war as a form of evil and how that construction, both musical and thematic, contributed to the NWOBHM’s aesthetic legacy and the globalisation of heavy metal.