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Alex Kurtagić is an author, editor, publisher, artist, musician, and cultural commentator, based in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the dystopian novel ''Mister'', the founder of Supernal Music, and the editor-in-chief of Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group. His writing deals with topics relating to culture, society, politics, music,〔Nils Wegner, "Ein Essayist des Eigenen", ''Junge Freiheit'' (24 April 2012) ()〕〔Karl Spracken, ''The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure: Habermas at the End of Modernity'' (Basingstoke and New York, 2009) p. 127〕 and community relations in the contemporary West. He is known as a proponent of elitism,〔Spracken, p. 127〕 and as a critic of egalitarianism (as an ethics) and conservatism.〔"Warum Konservative immer verlieren", ''Junge Freiheit'' 19/13 (3 May 2013) p. 3〕 == Life == Alex Kurtagić's roots are Slovenian and Spanish.〔Martin Lichtmesz, "Alex Kurtagic: Mister", ''Sezession'', December 2009 ()〕 Due to his parents' jobs he spent part of his youth in South America.〔Martin Lichtmesz, "Alex Kurtagic: Mister", ''Sezession'', December 2009 ()〕 He was born in 1970, in Spain, to a father born in Croatia of Slovenian stock. His parents moved frequently and he has lived in five countries, "both in the First and Third Worlds, located on both sides of the Atlantic", but he has spent most of his life in the United Kingdom. Kurtagić went through the US educational system in both university and high school and completed his post graduate work in a British university. In 1995 Kurtagić founded the band Benighted Leams, which has since released four albums.〔http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Benighted_Leams/10134〕 In 1996 he founded Supernal Music,.〔''Terrorizer Magazine'' #38 (January 1997)〕〔''Terrorizer Magazine'' #126 (December 2004)〕 During the mid-to-late 1990s Kurtagic was active as an album cover illustrator. Most of his artwork appeared on albums by black metal artists, such as Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, Tormentor, Deinonychus, Ancient, and others. His artwork is featured in the book ''Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers that Rocked the World''.〔Neil Aldis and James Sherry. 2006. ''Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers that Rocked the World''. Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1-84533-195-5〕 More recently, he has been active as a book cover illustrator. Since 2009, Kurtagic has focused primarily on writing and publishing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Kurtagić」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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