Heavy Metal Music

Frank Bello, bassist with the legendary New York thrash metal band Anthrax since 1984, has sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more t...

Metal music has long nurtured an obsession with visions of the Middle Ages, with countless album covers and lyric sheets populated by Vikings, knig...

For over four decades, scholars have been investigating male dominance - both symbolically and numerically -within popular music. The heavier genr...

The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels...

Marta Skaði is on a mission to destroy the world. Rebelling against the picturesque Norwegian fishing town that she was born in, Marta pulls toget...

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research, exploring how the audio...

Morten Andersen’s photo book follows the development of a collaborative project between Satyricon’s Sigurd Wongraven and MUNCH. The project explore...

40 years have passed since the release of PIECE OF MIND. More than an album, it was a thunderous statement of intent by a band whose meteoric rise ...

Defining 'Australian metal' is a challenge for scene members and researchers alike. Australian metal has long been situated in a complex relationsh...

Heavy Metal Youth Identities critically examines the significance of heavy metal music and culture in the everyday lives of metal youth. Historical...

Revel in the outrageous life of Ozzy Osbourne and the band that created the modern metal scene through inside stories, photos, and memorabilia. Few...

Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Tom Werman was deeply affected by pop music from a young age. He long dreamed of a career in music -- first as El...

Rob Halford's A-to-Z of Rock and Metal sees Rob to run his lively eye over all facets of the music and metal world. It's a lively encyclopaedia in ...

On Ice-T’s 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on ...

A philosophical look at heavy metal's dark masters of reality, Black Sabbath Black Sabbath is one of the world's most influential and enduring roc...

My Bloody Roots is the brutally honest story of life in two of the world s best-known heavy metal bands, Sepultura and Soulfly, by one of the globa...

Tonight It's a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music. Challenging the commonly-held perception ...

Today, Metallica are known as consummate musicians, but it wasn t always that way. Their early career is marked by a gradual evolution from garage ...