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Johnny C:
how do you feel about "rapegaze"
Johnny C:
okay i'm being a bit unfair there because a lot of the witch house bands actively dislike the "rapegaze" thing as a concept
De_El:
Johnny, you're looking at the picture without reading the caption.
scarred:
From my understanding a lot of witch house bands even hate the term "witch house," but I could be misinformed.
KharBevNor:
This is something I was talking about in meebo, with regards to whether there was anything similiar to the doom metal scene's obsession with the film Witchfinder General. What I could never quite work out if some of this is a homage to the film itself or to the band Witchfinder General, who based their entire image, from album covers to their logo, on the film or very similiar ideas. Apart from Witchfinder General (and the band Witchfynde) you have songs by Cathedral, Electric Wizard, and countless other bands with songs about witchfinding and related topics, for example: Reverend Bizarre and The Lamp of Thoth. One of the members of Reverend Bizarre also goes by the pseudonym Sir Albert Witchfinder. More generally, there is a lot of stuff to do with witches in relatively unmolested states, and I suspect the trope might have something to do with the proliferation of crucifix imagery in doom metal logos and art, apart from the obvious reason of Black Sabbath.
There's also a bit of a thing with (particularly British) folk, and especially weird folk artists and the film The Wicker Man, which weirdly also belongs to the same short-lived genre of atmospheric British 'folk horror' films. The Wicker Man thing is very understandable though, as the Wicker Man is, in some ways, practically a folk musical, and the soundtrack has probably been more influential on music than the film has on cinema (sadly). A notable recent example at a slight remove was Agalloch, whose stand-out neo-folk styled EP 'The White' went to the extent of mentioning the Wickerman in song titles (Summerisle Reprise etc.) and sampling the film several times; this is probably related to Agalloch's love for Sol Invictus, as Tony Wakeford often makes oblique references to the film in his lyrics.
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