Koncerty zespołów metalowych jako teatr okrucieństwa
Metal concerts as the Theatre of Cruelty

Summary/Abstract: The following paper is dedicated to metal music concerts as (non-)deliberate realisationof the Antonin Artaud’s (1896–1947) Theatre of Cruelty, which he proposed in the 1930s.The life of Artaud is a pure rebellion against society, which pervades his writings that areboth iconoclastic and groundbreaking. There is a certain similarity between Artaud andblack metal music, whose aesthetics and poetics evoke the sense of dread and rebellion.The Theatre of Cruelty is not about corporal suffering. It aims to provoke essential changesin a viewer, owing to the play, which could be regarded as a noble ritual, touching sacrum.Concerts of Gorgoroth, Batushka and Tool have been selected as representative ones in orderto discuss the presence of the Artaud’s concept in metal music.

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