Currently, I am putting final touches on the manuscript of my book on European metal cultural history.1 In this stage […]

Putting metal in its time!? Theoretical, methodological and empirical observations on ‘locating metal’ by a historian.

In the recent stage of gaining clearer contours as an independent field, metals studies scholars have demanded more theoretical self-reflection […]

Breaking the law!? A research agenda for a gap in scholarschip

A gap in research In 1980, Judas Priest released their classic heavy metal anthem ‘Breaking the Law’ on the British […]

Next week will see the 2019 edition of the black metal theory symposium in Ljubljana on 18 and 19 April. […]

The field we are working in is commonly referred to as metal studies or metal music studies. I prefer the […]

When Bruce Dickinsion released his first solo album Tattoed Millionaire in 1990, he could not know that today every good […]

Recently, the Ukranian black and doom metal group 1914 issued their new long-player The Blind Leading the Blind. According to […]

Recently, Polish black/death metallers Behemoth released their new album ‘I Loved You at Your Darkest’,1 which is the follow-up to […]

August 30, 2018

In this post,1 I want to examine recent Scandinavian Extreme Metal music as a discourse, where gender balancing acts became […]

I just returned from an intriguing conference on Mediterranean Europe(s): Images and Ideas of Europe from the Mediterranean Shores in […]