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  • The Disease Becomes the Host: Cattle Decapitation’s Pandemic Discourse from Song to Music Video

    Author(s):
    Michael Fuchs (see profile) , Anna Marini
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    Heavy metal (Music), Extreme metal (Music), COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in mass media
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    covid-19, Metal Music, metal music studies, music video
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/axh2-xp96
    Abstract:
    On April 2, 2020, extreme metal band Cattle Decapitation released a video for their song "Bring Back the Plague" (2019), whose lyrics invoke a pandemic that wipes out humanity as a means to counter the anthropogenic devastation of Earth. This article explores these lyrics vis-à-vis the music video, which tackles the spatiotemporal disruption caused by stay-at-home orders at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, condemning anomic behavior and appealing to solidarity and social responsibility.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://www.doi.org/10.18278/pcr.33.2.4
    Publisher:
    Policy Studies Organization
    Pub. Date:
    2022-10-25
    Journal:
    Popular Culture Review
    Volume:
    33
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    77 - 112
    ISSN:
    1060-8125
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial

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