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Metal Music Studies 7.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 7.2 is out now!

Aims and Scope

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 subject all journals to a double-blind peer-review and 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 7.2

Editorial

NIALL SCOTT, NEDIM HASSAN AND NELSON VARAS-DÍAZ

Articles

When love and critique collide: Methodology, ontology, fandom and standpoint in metal research

ROSEMARY LUCY HILL

Femininity in metal fanship: ‘I do not need to take anyone along’

MAARIT KINNUNEN AND ANTTI HONKANEN

The dark side of blogging: Digital metal communities and metal influencers

SUSANNE SACKL-SHARIF

Heavy metal justice?: Calibrating the economic and aesthetic accreditation of the heavy metal genre in the pages of Rolling Stone, 1980–91: Part two 1986–91