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Intellect is thrilled to announce that Metal Music Studies 5.2 is now available!

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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. It is the intellectual hub for the International Society of Metal Music Studies.

Issue 5.2

Editorial

Editorial
KARL SPRACKLEN 

Section One: Articles

Peace of mind: The impact of metal gestures on stress and power
SUSANNE A. EISCHEID, JULIA KNEER AND BIRTE ENGLICH

‘Sans compassion nor will to answer whoever asketh the why’: Personal sovereignty within black metal
KEVIN HOFFIN

Worshippers of the sugarcane fields: Agrarian politics, symbolic inversion and black metal in Indonesia
RUSSELL P. SKELCHY

Postmodernism in Lou Reed and Metallica’s collaborative album Lulu: The subjective perception of highbrow and lowbrow
DYLAN LAWRENCE GIBSON

The formation of the West German power metal scene and the question of a ‘Teutonic’ sound
JAN-PETER HERBST

‘[…] tentacular invisible mother divine!’: (The) Weird (in) Metal as convergence of sonic extremities and literary margins
JOSEPH NORMAN

Ode to a dying God: Debasement of Christian symbols in extreme metal 
MATTHEW P. UNGER

Section Two: Short Article