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80 | Lavinia Pflugfelder www.jrfm.eu 2020, 6/2, 65–85 be interpreted as anti-modern in two ways: modernity is associated with ur- banization, mechanization and rationalization, while the turning away from modernity is associated with nature, myth and irrationality.58 The reference to nature is also anti-modern when it arises from the connection between nature and paganism, specifically with the claim of (pre-modern, pre-Chris- tian) originality. This claim is also fed by the Romantic conception of na- ture.59 There is no industrialized landscape in Romantic-era Kunstreligion 58 Leichsenring 2011, 291–293. 59 Ghonghadze 2017, 369–371. Fig. 5: Music video still from Asura’s Realm, Venom Prison, 00:01:39. Fig. 6: Music video still from Cult of a Dying Sun, Uada, 00:03:20.