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Metal Music Studies 10.3 is out now!
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Metal Music Studies 10.3 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to present Metal Music Studies 10.3!

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

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

 

Aims & Scope

 

This peer-reviewed journal provides a focus for research and theory in metal music studies, a multidisciplinary (and interdisciplinary) subject field that engages with a range of parent disciplines. It provides a platform for high-quality research and theory and aims to be a unique resource for metal music studies.

 

Metal Music Studies is the intellectual hub for the International Society of Metal Music Studies (ISMMS).

 

This title is indexed with Scopus.

 

Issue 10.3

 

Editorial

 

MMS at ten: Achievements, aspirations and challenges on the horizon

NELSON VARAS-DÍAZ, NIALL SCOTT, ROSS HAGEN AND NEDIM HASSAN

 

Section One

 

Articles

 

Egypt’s folk devils? Metal music as a pious alternative for Egyptian metal fans

WAEL AL-SOUKKARY

 

Religion and ambiguity in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and its metal music afterlives

ARTURO MORA-RIOJA

 

Hammer of the gods: The heavy metal reception and reforging of Thor

SHANE HAWKINS AND TIMOTHY PETTIPIECE

 

The aesthetic of the unreadable: The impact of logotype readability on the corporate identity of death metal bands

ANTONIO PALACIOS

 

From analogue to algorithm: How private production reshaped metal aesthetics

MARIAN LUX AND JAN-PETER HERBST

 

Section Two

 

Review

 

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BRIAN A. HICKAM