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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

  • Look, all I'll say is that corpsepaint alone does not make you cool.

    Cthulhu Can Be In Your Home! modern__romance 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • They did however, wear an abundance of corpsepaint and silly sounding names (like 'Cypher'), though more of the theatrical effect than for the gimmick.

    All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com 2009

  • Krallice are a band with zero pretention and no corpsepaint; just killer, awesome black metal.

    MetalSucks 2009

  • Liturgy (in full corpsepaint) were quite the introduction for

    brooklynvegan 2009

  • 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

  • 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!"

    Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories 2008

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