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Metal Music Studies 8.3 is out now!
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Metal Music Studies 8.3 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 8.3 is out now!

 

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

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

 

Aims & 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 8.3

 

Editorial

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

 

Section One

 

Articles

 

Heavy metal made for children? Interrogating the adult/child divide in Heavysaurus’s heavy metal humour

RUTH BARRATT-PEACOCK

 

‘Wolves of the Krypteia’: Lycanthropy and rightwing extremism in metal’s reception of ancient Greece and Rome

JEREMY SWIST

 

A Bayesian analysis of national heavy metal subgenre prevalence in northern Europe and the West

MARYLENA BLEILE, BIANCA LUEDEKER AND CHARLES B. PATTERSON

 

Dissonance in metal music: Musical and sociocultural reasons for metal’s appreciation of dissonance

REUBEN SWALLOW AND JAN-PETER HERBST

 

Metallica the state/Metallica the war machine: A Deleuzoguattarian analysis of the world’s biggest metal band

ANDREW THOMSON AND AMANDA M. E. THOMSON

 

The didactic role of feminist art in metal music: Coven bands as a relational device for personal improvement and social justice

SUSANA GONZÁLEZ-MARTÍNEZ

 

Section Two

 

Book Reviews

 

Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, Robert Walser ([1993] 2014)

ANDY R. BROWN

 

Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo and Eliut Rivera-Segarra (2020)

EDWARD BANCHS

 

Red Metal: Die Heavy-Metal-Subkultur der DDR, Nikolai Okunew (2021)

PETER PICHLER