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Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 5.1 is now available! For more information about the issue, click here >> https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/mms/2019/00000005/00000001

Aims & scope

This peer-reviewed journal provides a focus for research and theory in metal music studies, a multidisciplinary (and interdisciplinary) subject field that engages with a range of parent disciplines. It provides a platform for high-quality research and theory and aims to be a unique resource for metal music studies. It is the intellectual hub for the International Society of Metal Music Studies.

Issue 5.1

Editorial
KARL SPRACKLEN

Section One: Articles

‘Their song was partial; but the harmony […] suspended hell’: Intertextuality, voice and gender in Milton/Symphony X’s Paradise Lost
JORDAN BOLAY

Norwegian black metal, transgression and sonic abjection
WOODROW STEINKEN

Satan’s Empire: Ancient Rome’s anti-Christian appeal in extreme metal
JEREMY J. SWIST

Old sounds with new technologies? Examining the creative potential of guitar ‘profiling’ technology and the future of metal music from producers’ perspectives
JAN-PETER HERBST

Negative determinations of intellect: A Hegelian critique of Slayer’s phenomenology
EMANUEL COPILAȘ

Vinyl records, metal fandom and fan labour: Productions and exchanges at the intersection of the cultural and financial economies
ELEFTHERIOS ZENERIAN

Section Two: Short Articles

The mosh pit – An area for excess or a place of learning?
ANDRÉ EPP

A mermaid’s song in distortion: The recreation of ancient myth by a medieval metal band
MARTINE MUSSIES

Book Report

Le style black metal, Bérenger Hainaut (2017)
BAPTISTE PILO

For more information about the journal including call for papers, click here >> www.intellectbooks.com/metal-music-studies
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