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Metal Music Studies 9.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 9.1 is out now!

The articles in this volume evince the broad sweep of metal studies scholarship as we approach the tenth anniversary of this journal’s founding, and add rigour and nuance to some of the accepted wisdom of scholarship on heavy metal.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/metal-music-studies

Aims & Scope

Metal Music Studies is the journal of the International Society for Metal Music Studies.

The aims of the journal are:

To provide an intellectual hub for the International Society of Metal Music Studies and a vehicle to promote the development of metal music studies;
To be the focus for research and theory in metal music studies – a multidisciplinary (and interdisciplinary) subject field that engages with a range of parent disciplines, including (but not limited to) sociology, musicology, humanities, cultural studies, geography, philosophy, psychology, history, natural sciences;
To publish high-quality, world-class research, theory and shorter articles that cross over from the industry and the scene;
To be a world leader in interdisciplinary studies and be a unique resource for metal music studies.

Issue 9.1

Editorial

ROSS HAGEN

Section One

Articles

Song form and storytelling in mainstream metal

STEPHEN S. HUDSON

Harmonic structures in twenty-first-century metal music: A harmonic analysis of five major metal genres

JAMIE BODDINGTON JORDAN AND JAN-PETER HERBST

Working metal musicians: A case of transition in the long 1980s

MARCO SWINIARTZKI

A k-means clustering and histogram-based colorimetric analysis of metal album artworks: The colour palette of metal music