In my last blog post, I attempted to describe the thoroughly digitalized research environment I discovered in our project on […]

The digital metal historian

Since about 2000, digitalization has become the major transforming force of our social world. Today, using social media – Facebook, […]

What lies ahead in 2021: Empirical fieldwork

For my project on the metal scene in Graz and Styria since 1980, I am currently finalizing the framework for […]

Last Saturday, for the first time since March 2020, I attended a metal show at Explosiv youth centre in Graz, […]

In my last post, I wrote that in our research project on the Styrian metal scene we now progress from […]

Our project on metal and law at the University of Graz is advancing. We are even a bit ahead of […]

Original source: cover picture of Iron Maiden, ‘Sanctuary’, (c) EMI 1980. Obviously, the title of this new blog post, which […]

In an earlier post, I wrote about heuristics in our project. The aim was to describe a conceptual framework, which […]

Corona is locking me in at home…I am messing around a bit with what YouTube can do for me and […]

This is the first post, which ‘officially’ discusses my research in the new project ‘Norm-related sonic knowledge in Heavy Metal […]