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Daniel Lukes

(He/Him)
Montreal
As seen in: Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Spotify, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kerrang!, In These Times, The Morning Star, 3AM Magazine, Decibel Magazine, The Creative Independent, Invisible Oranges and
Covers:  Culture, literature, music, gender, environment, sustainability
Doesn't Cover: Sports
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Witch Club Satan + Penelope Trappes @ Fairmount Theatre

Witch Club Satan + Penelope Trappes @ Fairmount Theatre

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 [...]
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Archspire + Undeath + Crown Magnetar + Mutilation Barbecue + Fracturus @ Beanfield Theatre

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

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 [...]
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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

Feast or Famine? A Delectable Anthology of Speculative Fiction... — The last meal before the apocalypse. A feast that binds a civilisation. A hunger that no world — real or imagined — can ever fully satisfy. What we eat tells us who we are. What we can't eat tells us who we've become. Hunger is the oldest story, and in these pages it takes new and unsettling forms: the politics of plenty, the violence of scarcity, the strange intimacy of sharing a meal across the boundaries of species, class, and world. From alien banquets to dystopian rationing, from sacred harvests to desperate scavenging, these stories of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror use food to lay bare what we crave most — connection, survival, meaning.
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Master Boot Record + arottenbit @ Piranha Bar

Master Boot Record + arottenbit @ Piranha Bar

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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Agriculture + Knoll @ Bar le Ritz

Agriculture + Knoll @ Bar le Ritz

montrealrocks.ca — The euphoric black metal turn is precious alone for how it irritates chuds like Neill Jamison, who cannot help themselves from attacking and mischaracterizing this genre: that it is producing some of the heaviest and most interesting bands around right now is the icing on the cake.
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abandoned swimming pools - Blood+Honey

abandoned swimming pools - Blood+Honey

bloodhoneylit.com — by Daniel Lukes "They dumped the corpses in the middle of the pool-a beautiful curvy pool with no flat bottom, but scooped out of the Earth like pistachio ice cream-and set them aflame like a bonfire."
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Entheos + Fallujah + The Zenith Passage + Tracheotomy @ Foufounes Électriques

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

montrealrocks.ca — Death metal is not exactly a genre that has the world's admiration and respect, but which musical genre, I ask you, takes seriously the level...
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An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich

An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich

Minor Literature[s] — As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of "microfascism," may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, refers to fascism in the small, everyday domain. Bratich's book On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death (Common Notions Press, 2022), argues that we should take the long view on fascism as not merely starting with Mussolini, but as a much broader and deeper historical way of doing politics and organizing society, founded on patriarchal domination of men by women. Bratich develops a theory of male socialization he calls “autogenetic sovereignty”: a founding myth of the self-made (but also self-destroying) man, who seeks to transcend a material world cast as female. This philosophy animates incel school shooters, fascist militia members, and would-be Mars-colonists alike.
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Crypta + Sarkasm + Burning Sanctum @ Piranha Bar

Crypta + Sarkasm + Burning Sanctum @ Piranha Bar

montrealrocks.ca — Morgan Lander of revived nu metallers Kittie recently looked back at being "the lone woman in a sea of nu-metal dudes," and it's undeniable that...
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Cartoonists Band Together for Palestine

Cartoonists Band Together for Palestine

In These Times — A new anthology brings more than 60 artists together to dream of a free Palestine.
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Clown Core + Karneef @ MTELUS

Clown Core + Karneef @ MTELUS

montrealrocks.ca — Somewhere between Stephen King taking inspiration from John Wayne Gacy (a serial killer who moonlighted as a children's party clown) for his demonic clown villain...
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Buñuel + Murderous Again + Today Is The Day + Spiritual Poison @ Piranha Bar

Buñuel + Murderous Again + Today Is The Day + Spiritual Poison @ Piranha Bar

montrealrocks.ca — It's a Friday night, the 4th of July, and downtown Montreal is hopping. Once you find your way to the upstairs section of legendary metal...
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Paradise Lost + Trouble @ Fairmount Theatre

Paradise Lost + Trouble @ Fairmount Theatre

montrealrocks.ca — Trouble are one of those bands that may have been denied mainstream success, but as soon as they kick in tonight following a gloomy sample...
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Whitechapel + Brand of Sacrifice + 200 Stab Wounds + Alluvial @ L'Olympia

Whitechapel + Brand of Sacrifice + 200 Stab Wounds + Alluvial @ L'Olympia

Montrealrocks.ca — It's a rainy Monday evening in Montreal, with melting snow turning to slush on the ground, but L'Olympia is already pretty full at 6:30 p.m.:...
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Helmet "Betty 30th Anniversary Tour" + Slomosa + War On Women @ FairmountTheatre

Helmet "Betty 30th Anniversary Tour" + Slomosa + War On Women @ FairmountTheatre

montrealrocks.ca — There is nothing quite like a thirtieth* anniversary tour of an album that came out when you were a teenager to make you feel old...
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Box - Propagule: The Independent Literary Magazine

Box - Propagule: The Independent Literary Magazine

Propagule.co — A Cardboard Box Wrapped In Gold Shiny Paper With A White Felt Bow In the middle of construction, structural components, methodologies for obtaining information with as least resistance as possible, breaking down cells, co-opting knowledge systems, a matter of course is finding the easiest path of obstruction, the entrance has been foreclosed, definitively.
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The Comforts of Horror: Review of Final Cut and Kommix by Charles Burns

The Comforts of Horror: Review of Final Cut and Kommix by Charles Burns

Los Angeles Review of Books — Daniel Lukes reviews Charles Burns’s “Final Cut” and “Kommix.”
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Nature is Healing - Litmora Literary Magazine

Nature is Healing - Litmora Literary Magazine

litmoralitmag.com — My name is Genevra Badger. That is not my real name. I can't remember my real name, and I don't care. But I can remember the iced latte I was holding when it hit. I was just about to taste it.
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Black Metal Rainbows Interview

Black Metal Rainbows Interview

Spotify — Listen to this episode from Cave Dweller Music on Spotify. James sits down with editors Daniel Lukes and Stanimir Panayotov, as well as designer Jaci Raia, of Black Metal Rainbows. They discuss the project's book by the same name, published by PM Press, as well as its accompanying compilation.
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"The Last Serial Killer" by Daniel Lukes - MEMEZINE

"The Last Serial Killer" by Daniel Lukes - MEMEZINE

memezinelit.com — "The location is a bus station, a hospital entrance, or some other public area where people come and go, and where two guys, two random white guys, can pass relatively unnoticed."
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Op-ed: Marilyn Manson Does Not Belong in the Music Industry - Noob Heavy

Op-ed: Marilyn Manson Does Not Belong in the Music Industry - Noob Heavy

noobheavy.com — Written by Daniel Lukes Editor's note:Today we're proud to feature an op-ed from Daniel Lukes, a heavy music and culture writer who's also co-editor of the book Black Metal Rainbows (you can find the BMR [...]
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Bieler School of Environment to Host Hopeful Futures in Science and Storytelling - McGill Reporte...

Bieler School of Environment to Host Hopeful Futures in Science and Storytelling - McGill Reporte...

McGill Reporter — Conference will bring together writers, researchers, and students across disciplines to tackle key questions at the nexus of storytelling and the climate crisis - and to provide glimmers of hope where possible.
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The Right Thing To Do, Economically Too - McGill Reporter

The Right Thing To Do, Economically Too - McGill Reporter

McGill Reporter — Economist Gernot Wagner says embracing sustainable climate technology to win the global clean energy race is not only a moral imperative to save the planet, but also makes sound business sense.
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The Weekend That Never Ended

The Weekend That Never Ended

moonparkreview.com — I remember the time humanity took a weekend that never ended. It was a Friday: people went home from work as usual, and then they just decided to not go back. They had plenty to do, kicking back watching TV, pottering about the house and garden, getting all those renovations finally done-and...
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