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Owen Coggins
Owen Coggins researches violence, ambiguity and mysticism in popular music, particularly in relation to extreme music and noise. His monograph, Mysticism, Ritual and Religion in Drone Metal was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2018, and, in addition to contributing several articles to Metal Music Studies his work has appeared in Popular Music, Implicit Religion, and Diskus: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion amongst others. He also runs Oaken Palace Records, a registered charity raising money for endangered species through releasing drone records. He is Honorary Associate of the Religious Studies Department at the Open University and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Brunel University London.