Sam Woolfe
Freelance Writer, Blogger & Author

Fear and Fascination: How Horror Films Evoke the Sublime

Fear and Fascination: How Horror Films Evoke the Sublime

Part of the appeal of horror films – which is underappreciated, I think – is their capacity to evoke the sublime. This is a curious and complex emotion. It’s a mixture of fear and fascination. It involves feeling simultaneously nervous or threatened by some perceptual phenomenon – because of its vastness or power – and…

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Creating Negative Awe Through Sound: A Review of Mirar’s New EP ‘Mare’

Creating Negative Awe Through Sound: A Review of Mirar’s New EP ‘Mare’

On 10th June, French metal band Mirar released a six-track EP titled Mare. This EP, and the band in general, falls into the metal genre ‘thall’, which combines elements of progressive metal, death metal, and mathcore. Thall is an offshoot of djent and originated with Vildhjarta, who started using the term in 2011; the genre…

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