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Daniel Lukes

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Montreal
As seen in: Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Spotify, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kerrang!, In These Times, The Morning Star, Decibel Magazine, 3AM Magazine, The Creative Independent, Invisible Oranges and
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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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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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Entheos + Fallujah + The Zenith Passage + Tracheotomy @ Foufounes Électriques

Entheos + Fallujah + The Zenith Passage + Tracheotomy @ Foufounes Électriques

Death metal is not exactly a genre that has the world's admiration and respect, but which musical genre, I as…

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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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Cartoonists Band Together for Palestine

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By Daniel Lukes
| In These Times Verified
Interview Culture Comics Daniel Lukes August 28, 2025 The important thing to remember in the face of ongoing genocide, argues writer and ​“comic zealot” Yazan al-Saadi, is to try. Cartoonists for Palestine (Crucial Comix), which al-Saadi co-edited with Tracy Chahwan, Shay Mirk and Andy Warner, is a 250-page collection by more than 60 artists, united to fundraise for relief work in Palestine. The anthology, available free online, has so far raised nearly $3,000.
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