Metal Music Studies
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The purpose of this study is examination of the relation between “music” and “mythology” through a current example, which are kinds of ancient narratives. Within the context of this purpose, “music” is discussed in the first chapter of... more
Presented at IASPM-US 2018 Annual Meeting, Vanderbilt University (US), 8-11 March 2018. Presented as part of the panel 'Searching for Viability: Dynamics in Three Metal Scenes around the World', alongside Dr Bryan Bardine (University of... more
Resumen Este estudio estuvo orientado a identificar las bondades que tiene el método cualitativo de la teoría fundamentada en los diferentes aspectos del sentir y pensar de los Metaleros de la ciudad de Lima con la finalidad de analizar... more
“Psychological Well-Being” is not just the feeling of joy and happiness but also the overall feeling of contentment in one’s life, work satisfaction and absence of stress and tension. Music has been accepted universally as a therapeutic... more
The point of departure for the article discussed was the dramaturgical theory of the American sociologist Erving Goffman. In the context of the theatrical metaphors, Iggy Pop, Wendy O. Williams and Till Lindemann’s performing rites had... more
Viking gemileri 9. yüzyılda o zamanki adıyla Konstantinopolis’e demir atmış, şehri istila etmek için dört bir taraftan saldırı gerçekleştirmişti. Viking askerleri, o dönem bu şehri almayı başaramadı ama günümüzde Viking kültürü dünyanın... more
The article focuses on the issue of turning stage space into theatre-like environment, which takes place during stage performances of the German band Rammstein. The band’s stage performance uses techniques of artistic expression that can... more
As the song ‘Havfruens Kvad’ by Svartsot (2010) confirms, medieval metal gave a new voice to mermaid mythology. The song has thematically little in common with the fairy tale Den lille havfrue, but does resonate with the Norse mythology... more
This paper explores embodied experiences of “metrical constructedness” (Bowman 2003), using a new theoretical tool called “motional conceptual models” to analyze the motion experienced in progressive rock’s riffs. Prog rock/metal is often... more
This article will present the results of a research project that aimed to examine the meanings and mechanisms behind the formation of a metal identity. This report is based on 38 interviews that were conducted at four festivals during the... more
A Bachelor thesis about the relation between the Amsterdam metal scene and the Dutch scene. What is the position of the Amsterdam scene within the Dutch and international scene?
For over 50 years, the abrasive and confrontational genre of heavy metal has persisted as a series of global crises have emerged and deepened. I claim that the culture has a deeply existentialist tendency, which has driven a scathing... more
Draft paper to be published eventually as Till, Rupert (2012) Metal and the Beast: The adoption of apocalyptic imagery in heavy metal music. In: Anthems of Apocalypse: Popular Music and Apocalyptic Thought. Bible in the Modern World (42).... more
El presente texto presenta los resultados de investigación de Jóvenes Investigadores galardonados por Colciencias y vinculados al Semillero Temático de Investigación en Juventudes. En el texto se abordan temáticas relacionadas a culturas... more
In metal music studies, ‘heaviness’ has been acknowledged as an essential element of the genre. Commonly associated with the distorted guitar, most work on heaviness has concentrated on the instrument’s sound. If respective research... more
During the first few years of the new millennium, several young metal bands from across the United States of America began releasing records that steadily grew in popularity, first emerging into widespread metal consciousness before... more
System of a Down is an Armenian-American heavy metal band who participated in a counterculture around the turn of the millennium, both through its music and through its members’ participation in activism. I situate both the band’s sound... more
Trabajo de grado para optar por el título de Socióloga, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
The development of technology and the resulting influence on a specific genre of recorded music provide the central motivation for this thesis. Record production has become an increasingly important part of contemporary musicology, with... more
La música de cada época es producto de un proceso de influencias entre músicos y de cambios de técnicas musicales. Además el entorno social geográfico y político determina los sentimientos e ideas que la música de la época va a... more
This article argues that far from being a marginal Black Metal subgenre, Industrial Black Metal is central in bringing out Black Metal’s often disavowed appropriation of machinic noise and its critique of machine society. Through its... more
(no abstract printed) While it may be tempting to some listeners to hear the album Metallica (1991) as watered-down metal and excise it from the genre, this album is not peripheral to metal music studies. Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ played... more
This article examines the shift in aesthetics and sound that occurred during the development of what came to be called Melodic Death Metal, a sub-genre of Metal that developed in the 1990s in Gothenburg, Sweden. I consider the musical... more
This doctoral thesis examines discourses of authenticity in popular music cultures. As a multiple case study in disciplines of cultural studies and ethnomusicology, it utilizes discourse analysis and investigates the three cases of Lady... more
The music of the Swedish metal band, Meshuggah, reveals a distinct rhythmic and metric structure based on large-scale odd time signatures, mixed meter, and metric superimposition. Their 2004 EP “I,” however, pushes the boundaries of... more
Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 14-17th December, 2016 For the first time in its history, Crossroads in Cultural Studies has come to the southern hemisphere. The 11th Association for Cultural... more
Niniejszy artykuł dotyczy zagadnień związanych z zespołem Mgła takich jak fenomenologia maski, zakrycia twarzy i¡wycofania artysty, co jest szczególnie widoczne w¡ scenicznej anonimowości artystów, którzy odmawiają uczestnictwa w głównym... more
Kultura metalowa stanowi w rodzimych badaniach naukowych ciągle jeszcze obszar w niewielkim stopniu rozpoznany. Równocześnie jednak obserwujemy nieustające zainteresowanie redakcji mediów muzycznych oraz samych słuchaczy, fanów muzyki... more
Historical narratives come not only from real-world events but from psychological processes, with Israeli and Palestinian narratives undergoing constant radical changes along with the physical territory. In the Middle East, femininity and... more
Thesis accepted without corrections for the degree of PhD in Music at University of Hull (UK), January 2018. This thesis addresses various functions of genre in metal/hardcore music as a lens through which to study popular music in the... more
This Master's dissertation aims to uncover the capacity for political expression within doom metal and willingness to make such expression amongst its proponents, and to identify trends within the genre that support social critique across... more
Black Metal is an underground musical genre, descended from Heavy Metal and born in the late 80s in Scandinavia. In this dissertation, we are aiming to reconstruct its genesis before showing how it builds its aesthetics alongside the... more
In this project, the main focus will be on Manhattan Project regarding the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings and these incidents impact on metal music genre will be explained with examples. Firstly, general information on Second... more