corpsepaint

See also: corpse paint

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Etymology

From corpse +‎ paint.

Noun

corpsepaint (uncountable)

  1. A style of black-and-white makeup used primarily by black metal musicians and fans, intended to make the wearer appear inhuman, corpselike, or demonic.
    • 2007, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze's Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics, Ashgate Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 45:
      Many black metal musicians dress in black robes and wear exaggerated white-and-black “corpsepaint” on their faces, […]
    • 2012, Joel McIver, Machine Head: Inside the Machine‎[1], Omnibus Press, →ISBN:
      You get kids over there in corpsepaint going to a death metal show, but then are going to go to [a] Darkness show. […]
    • 2014, Donna Weston, Andy Bennett, editors, Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music‎[2], Routledge, →ISBN:
      Far more Pagan metal bands appear in the traditional black metal corpsepaint.

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