Writing about writing about heavy metal, part four: how do you explain (Styrian) heavy metal?
Since my last blog post on the “Mexican experience” of writing about metal, quite some time has passed. Also in […]
“The end complete?”: finishing the empirical phase
The picture above shows part of the table of contents of the catalogue for the exposition “Palette” by the Austrian […]
“Aren’t you the guy doing this metal studies interview stuff?”: On distance and self-reflection
In my recent post, I wrote about oral history as a the method of choice to decode the Styrian metal […]
The Styrian metal scene in 2021: ‘Pandemism’ and localism
Copyright of the elements of the title image: cover artwork ‘Thrashing Death Squad’ EP © MDD/Black Sunset Records 2021; branding […]
Covid19, metal studies, and oral history research: A methodological rant
In my last blog post, I attempted to describe the thoroughly digitalized research environment I discovered in our project on […]
Styria: the local ‘metallic association chain’
In my last post, I wrote that in our research project on the Styrian metal scene we now progress from […]
Politics, values, norms, and ethics in metal and metal studies: ‘Reflexive anti-reflexivity’ has a history!
Our project on metal and law at the University of Graz is advancing. We are even a bit ahead of […]
Maggie Thatcher made heavy metal (…and she saw that it was good?)
Original source: cover picture of Iron Maiden, ‘Sanctuary’, (c) EMI 1980. Obviously, the title of this new blog post, which […]
On the history of the ‘metal ear’ and methodological ‘distant listening’
Currently, I am in a phase of revising some older texts on metal cultural history. During these revisions I realized […]
Gender in Black Metal: a cultural-historical note on Myrkur’s new album ‘Mareridt’
Myrkur is a one-woman Black Metal project from Denmark. It is the brainchild of songwriter/pianist/guitarist/singer Amalie Bruun. Bruun started out […]