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Daniel Lukes

(He/Him)
Montreal
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Previously music journalist in UK+USA, PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, communications officer at McGill University; currently part-time professor of literature at University of Ottawa and freelance editor, translator, and writer.

Books: William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion; Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible; Conversations with William T. Vollmann; Black Metal Rainbows.

Contact: daniel.lukes @ gmail . com

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Witch Club Satan + Penelope Trappes @ Fairmount Theatre

Witch Club Satan + Penelope Trappes @ Fairmount Theatre

There has always been something witchy about black metal. The black metal persona, long-haired, uglified with…

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Archspire + Undeath + Crown Magnetar + Mutilation Barbecue + Fracturus @ Beanfield Theatre

Archspire + Undeath + Crown Magnetar + Mutilation Barbecue + Fracturus @ Beanfield Theatre

It's called death metal, but it's actually a very vital form of music. Now in its fifth decade, it's more rel…

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"100 Years of Custard" short story in Feast or Famine? Anthology

"100 Years of Custard" short story in Feast or Famine? Anthology

The last meal before the apocalypse. A feast that binds a civilisation. A hunger that no world — real or imag…

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Master Boot Record + arottenbit @ Piranha Bar

Master Boot Record + arottenbit @ Piranha Bar

In his 2011 book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds argues that pop culture …

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Agriculture + Knoll @ Bar le Ritz

Agriculture + Knoll @ Bar le Ritz

The euphoric black metal turn is precious alone for how it irritates chuds like Neill Jamison, who cannot hel…

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abandoned swimming pools - Blood+Honey

abandoned swimming pools - Blood+Honey

by Daniel Lukes "They dumped the corpses in the middle of the pool-a beautiful curvy pool with no flat bottom…

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Witch Club Satan + Penelope Trappes @ Fairmount Theatre ▪

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By Daniel Lukes
| montrealrocks.ca
There has always been something witchy about black metal. The black metal persona, long-haired, uglified with corpsepaint, and shrieking in the forest, certainly carries something of the witch about it. And yet, as Jenny Hval explores in her essay-novel Girls Against God, black metal has traditionally been a male-dominated domain, reproducing patriarchal power from within even as it violently pushes against the modern world.
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Archspire + Undeath + Crown Magnetar + Mutilation Barbecue + Fracturus @ Beanfield Theatre ▪

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By Daniel Lukes
| montrealrocks.ca
It’s called death metal, but it’s actually a very vital form of music. Now in its fifth decade, it’s more relevant and creative than ever, and still coming up with new ways to surprise us. This “Long Roads and Big Loads” tour is a good slice of what the genre has to offer today, and it’s great to see such a crowd out on a night in which a) the Habs are playing, b) the Seps are playing their farewell tour, and c) there’s also a big thrash fest featuring Macabre and Goregasm at Piranha Bar.
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Master Boot Record + arottenbit @ Piranha Bar ▪

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By Daniel Lukes
| montrealrocks.ca
In his 2011 book Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds argues that pop culture is stuck in a loop, constantly recycling and cannibalizing its own history. Master Boot Record seem almost tailor-made for that analysis: their whole sound and aesthetic is old technology, specifically related to computers, programming, and code.
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