SOURCE: "The Devil Sings the Blues: Heavy Metal, Gothic Fiction and 'Postmodern' Discourse," in Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 26, No. 3, Winter, 1992, pp. 151-64.
In the following essay, Hinds delineates the shared formal, thematic, and historic features of Gothic fiction and heavy-metal music, viewing both as subgenres—a term that Hinds takes care to redefine—that subvert their parent forms, the novel and rock and roll, respectively, and use images of the occult to critique mainstream culture.
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