Lexa's death sparked fury within the fanbase, not only for the loss of a beloved character but because Clarke, who is bisexual, and Lexa's relationship was oft celebrated for its nuanced and diverse depiction of sexuality.
In his review of Opeth's 2001 album Blackwater Park, Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia wrote, "Tracks start and finish in seemingly arbitrary fashion, usually traversing ample musical terrain, including acoustic guitar and solo piano passages, ambient soundscapes, stoner rock grooves, and Eastern-tinged melodies any of which are subject to savage punctuations of death metal fury at any given moment".
Their deaths sparked fury in the community they had been defending, and police feared there would be riots.
In Sweden, Meshuggah, in the nineties, built roaring, ferocious songs atop fiendish riffs in prime-number time signatures; Opeth, in the aughts, found a connection between death-metal fury and Pink Floydian reverie.
At her best, Ms. Lang illustrates her music — "Aria" is set to Zenobia's aria "Son contenta di morire" from Handel's "Radamisto," and distinguishes neatly between voice and orchestra while showing the death-fixated fury in the words — but she provides no new interpretive insight.
But a percentage levy would still attract the moniker "death tax", plus fury from the Mail and Telegraph at anything penalising the middle classes.
With much of the metal scene in a permanent state of superficiality, Napalm Death's righteous fury and utter disregard for routine sonic styles mark the grindcore legends out as one of the few truly subversive bands around.
After John's death, Kipling's fury against the 'Hun' reached new depths, and we leave him writing to his old friend H.A. Gwynne, the editor of the Morning Post, about the possible correlation between an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and the proximity of German prisoners of war.
Death's inexhaustible fury exhausts baritone, chorus and orchestra.
Derek McCormack took the time to answer some of my questions about his book in the context of his battle with cancer while writing it, the effect of fashion in the face of death, and his fury both for and against writing.
