Discourse of Death in the Aesthetics of Heavy Metal

Abstract

The article attempts to explicate the discourse of death in the aesthetics of the musical style Heavy metal. The author identifies four types of discursive death practices, are brutalization, dramatization, heroization, criticism. It is shown that the appeal to the theme of death in Heavy metal is a protest against alienated forms of modern inhuman existence.

Keywords

• discourse of death
• heavy metal
• brutalization
• dramatization
• heroization
• criticism
• protest against alienation.