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🗓️ 4 November 2025
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Luke Coppen looks at a new musical subgenre of Roman Catholic black metal; Mary Wakefield celebrates cartoonist Michael Heath as he turns 90 – meaning he has drawn for the Spectator for 75 years; looking to Venezuela, Daniel McCarthy warns Trump about the perils of regime change; Michael Simmons bemoans how Britain is beholden to bad data; and, Hugh Thomson looks at celebrity terrorists as he reviews Jason Burke’s The Revolutionists.
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| 0:55.8 | Luke Coppon looks at a new musical subgenre of Roman Catholic black metal. As he turns 90, Mary Wakefield celebrates the |
| 1:01.6 | cartoonist Michael Heath, which means that he has been drawing cartoons for the spectator for 75 years. |
| 1:08.3 | As the US president turns his attention to Venezuela, Daniel McCarthy warns Trump about the |
| 1:12.9 | perils of regime change. Michael Simmons bemoans how Britain's economy is beholden to quangos |
| 1:18.3 | and bad data. And finally, Hugh Thompson looks at celebrity terrorists as he reviews Jason |
| 1:23.8 | Burke's The Revolutionists, the story of the extremists who hijacked the 1970s. |
| 1:29.5 | Up first, Luke Coppin. |
| 1:31.4 | In his youth, Emil London became obsessed with the idea of recording the world's most evil album. |
| 1:37.3 | The lanky, long-haired swede formed a black metal band and set to work. |
| 1:40.8 | He faced an immediate obstacle in making history's most nefarious musical creation. |
| 1:45.7 | He could hardly use Swedish, with its sing-song tones. English was also out of the question. |
| 1:50.1 | He didn't want to sound like Abba. That left Latin, the native tongue of the occult, and it said |
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