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Violence, Utopia and the dominion of God provides a provocative and arresting new research of Biblical texts which attracts at the latest severe methods to supply a special research of the Biblical narrative.
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And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden (Genesis 4:16), again, like Adam. In other words, Cain brings murder into the world, but in so doing he gains protection and a diet of previously forbidden food, meat. When Adam fell, history began; when Cain falls, the first city (Enoch, named for his son) is built and civilization begins. The strength of the people again is based on the consumption of forbidden food. 22 EAT AND GROW STRONG Having considered all this, we are now in a position to offer at least one reason why Jesus is that greater Man Milton (166774 [1962]) sought to redeem us from our primal disobedience.
For instance, hardcore metal parades incest, necrophilia, pedophilia, and excremental sex (see Hinds 1992 for the importance of explicit sexual reference in heavy metal), while death metal celebrates the myriad forms of death and its implications. Religion remains a dominant feature of much heavy metal, focused most often around Christianity or its traditional religious other, the occult. Bands like Deicide and The Impaled Nazarene go to extreme lengths in their inversion of Christianity, while older bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and The Cult traveled the worn road of Satanism (once again, see Hinds 1992 on this, and its roots in the blues).
In the last two violence itself is criticized. If anything, the violence becomes that which is experienced by the implied singer, and then by extension the implied listenerthe covert violence of lived experience, of everyday life. The standard psychoanalytic move at this point is to suggest that this sort of violence, but more especially the introspective, self-inflicted violence, is internalized violence, turned in upon the self in the forms of alcohol, drug abuse, mental derangement, and troubled sexual relationships.