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Metal Music Studies 7.3 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 7.3 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Metal Music Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice’

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

Aims and 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 7.3

Editorial

Metal music studies at the intersection of theory and practice

JAN-PETER HERBST AND KARL SPRACKLEN

Articles

Structuring subjectivity: Pain of Salvation’s The Perfect Element: Part I (2000)

LORI A. BURNS AND PATRICK ARMSTRONG

‘Another Version of the Truth’: The politics of affect and the externalization of threat in Trent Reznor’s Year Zero

DAVID DEACON

Gabber: Raising hell in technoculture