This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have
contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies …

Contemporary metal music (CMM) features, usually down-tuned, harmonically distorted
timbres, and from a performance perspective regularly contains fast and frequently complex …

'The most important music of our time is recorded music. The recording studio is its principle
musical instrument'(Case, 2007, p. xix). Despite this, the role of the producer and the …

Einleitung»[…] es war die Zeit der historischen Dissonanzen zwischen Ost und West:[…]
eine neue Menschheit war unter den Sowjets in der einen Welthälfte herangewachsen …

In this article we provide a genre-specific introduction into extreme metal (EM) and its
pragmatic potentials. As we are going to argue, these features are all associated with …

En este artículo examinamos la heterogeneidad del rock a partir del análisis de uno de sus
subgéneros: el heavy metal en el contexto de Argentina. Nos centramos en el “aguante”, un …

Metallica has offered a diverse catalogue of music and breadth of performance over their
careers. As a band occupying an integral cultural placement as measured by both level of …

En esta tesis doctoral se desarrollan los resultados de la investigación acerca de la escena
bonaerense de la música metal a partir de la banda Hermética como centro de sentidos y …

Todays heavy metal music is categorically different from previous forms of popular music. It
contains the element of hatred, a meanness of spirit. Its principal themes are, as you have …

In this article we provide a genre-specific introduction into extreme metal (EM) and its
pragmatic potentials. As we are going to argue, these features are all associated with …