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Black metal, whose practitioners wear a style of makeup called corpsepaint and shy away from high production value, has long attracted a cult following.
All articles at Blogcritics Michael Nordine 2010
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Look, all I'll say is that corpsepaint alone does not make you cool.
Cthulhu Can Be In Your Home! modern__romance 2009
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The members of Japan's Gallhammer wear modified corpsepaint and growl like sexless, sluggish behemoths, dragging themselves ineluctably toward the end of days.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Extremely nihilistic and featuring an inexplicable number of bands from Norway, black metal is down with paganism, Satan and the wearing of corpsepaint.
Taipei Times 2009
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Other styles can involve piercings, corpsepaint (for that been-dead-a-year look) and looking like you've just escaped from Middle Earth.
Taipei Times 2009
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They did however, wear an abundance of corpsepaint and silly sounding names (like 'Cypher'), though more of the theatrical effect than for the gimmick.
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Krallice are a band with zero pretention and no corpsepaint; just killer, awesome black metal.
MetalSucks 2009
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Liturgy (in full corpsepaint) were quite the introduction for
brooklynvegan 2009
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Congrats to MetalSucks devotee Joel V. who proved himself worthy of metal god status by photoshopping corpsepaint on his own photo to win
MetalSucks 2008
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Tonight, expect corpsepaint and fake blood, candles and talk of world-burning: "We build upon the stage a temple of panic, chaos, magic and death, showing to the audience the true, ugly face of the horrible abomination that is Black Metal!"
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