The world of death, like explicit sexuality that deviates from the dominant norm and the use of sacred semantics that oppose the most widespread and recognized models by hegemonic powers, is a reservoir of symbols that are fertile for all those who, to varying degrees, choose to challenge dominant models by creating a divergent sense of taste and the development of unconventional aesthetics, poetics, and narratives. Based on these premises, this contribution aims to analyze the world of dark art and macabre art, with particular reference to some case studies emerging from the "occulture" milieu, spanning contemporary paganism, ecospirituality, and Western esotericism, which highlight the synergies between the sacred, death and politics today. Within these worlds, in fact, an artistic and artisanal scenario has emerged (sometimes in dialogue with "institutional" contemporary art) where animal remains (bones, skulls, skins, horns, etc.) are used and re-signified through interpretative keys that re-enchant socio-political ecocentric discourses, animal rights, countercultural movements and worldviews opposed to globalization and capitalist processes. In these cases, the macabre takes on two roles: on one hand, it is a means for the co-creation of shared tastes, aesthetics, and poetics among the social fields relevant to the artists (often converging and overlapping with musical scenes such as metal and neofolk), and on the other hand, it is a tool for showing and defining divergent (if not openly opposed) individual and collective identities in relation to "common sense", in a process that explicitly involves the sacred and its semantics in contemporary times.