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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.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 11 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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