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]]>1 Too Much Metal 29 November
2 Invisible Metal 6 December
3 Music At A Standstill 12 December
4 The Metal Future 20 December
5 Slow Metal 27 December
6 Breaking Metal’s Boundaries 10 January
7 Metal Beyond Metal 17 January
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]]>via Concord rabbi listens with his soul – West – The Boston Globe.
Unlike him though, I never ‘found God in the moshpit’
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Heavy metal is now over forty years old and has developed into a diverse and multi-faceted genre. Wherever it is found and however it is played, metal’s fascination with transgression has often meant it has been embroiled in controversy. Controversies surrounding the alleged connection between heavy metal and, variously, sexual promiscuity, occultism and Satanism, subliminal messages, suicide and violence have made heavy metal a target of moral panics over popular culture. Metal has variously embraced, rejected, played with and tried to ignore this controversy and it remains irrevocably marked by its controversial, transgressive tendencies.
This anthology provides a thorough investigation of how and why metal becomes controversial, how metal ‘scenes’ are formed. It examines the relationship between metal and society, including how fans, musicians and the media create the culture of heavy metal.
Contents
1. Introduction: Heavy Metal as Controversy and Counterculture
Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris and Mark LeVine
Part I: Controversies
2. Suicide Solutions? Or how the Emo Class of 2008 were Able to Contest their Media Demonization, whereas the Headbangers, Burnouts or ‘Children of ZoZo’ Generation were not
Andy R. Brown, Bath Spa University
3. ‘How You Gonna See Me Now’: Recontextualizing Metal Artists and Moral Panics
Brad Klypchak, Texas A & M University – Commerce
4. Triumph of the Maggots? Valorization of Metal in the Rock Press
Hélène Laurin
5. Dworkin’s Nightmare: Porn Grind as the Sound of Feminist Fears
Lee Barron, Northumbria University
6. The ’Double Controversy’ of Christian Metal
Marcus Moberg, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
7. Hellfest: The Thing that Should not be? Local Perceptions and Catholic Discourses on Metal Culture in France
Gérôme Guibert, University Paris III, and Jedediah Sklower, independent scholar
Part II: Countercultures
8. Malang, Indonesia and Toledo, USA: A Theory of Metal Scene Formation
Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and Alexandra Levine
9. Voice of Our Blood: National Socialist Discourses in Black Metal
Benjamin Hedge Olson
10. Extreme Music for Extreme People? Norwegian Black Metal and Transcendent Violence
Michelle Phillipov, University of Tasmania
11. The Extreme Metal ‘Connoisseur’
Nicola Allett, Louchborough University
12. Black Metal Soul Music: Stone Vengeance and the Aesthetics of Race in Heavy Metal
Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University
13. (I) Hate Girls and Emo(tion)s: Negotiating Masculinity in Grindcore Music
Rosemary Overell
14. Heavy Metal and the Deafening Threat of the Apolitical
Niall Scott, University of Central Lancashire
Reviews
‘A powerful addition to the metal studies literature, this book is overflowing with insights into the cultural politics of heavy metal music. With lively writing, interdisciplinary approaches, and a global perspective, these chapters offer ideas that have broad implications for the study of popular music scenes and their dynamics, media scandals, the relationship between music and affect, and the role of culture in social life.’
Professor Harris M. Berger, Texas A & M University
‘From Christian metal to African American metal artists to the pleasures of feeling ‘brutal,’ Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures explores a wide array of topics too often neglected in the critical study of the genre. The book is global in both the range of contributors and of its subject matter, and so joins the recent Metal Rules the Globe as proof that the field of global metal studies is in full bloom.’
Steve Waksman, author of This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
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]]>The Wall Street Journal did a piece on the conference. It’s slightly sensationalist but broadly accurate. There’s an accompanying video that I’m featured in:
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]]>Hey my name is Benyamin Smith and I am currently attending yeshiva in Bet Shemesh (the same one as Avichai Myers) and wanted to let you know that I am in all Orthodox Jewish death metal/deathcore/metalcore (one of those) band called October Crisis. We currently have 2 albums out that you can download for free on our bandcamp page!
www.octobercrisis.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/octobercrisis
Hope you dig the tunes! we are for fans of Lamb of God, Threat Signal and August Burns Red. Enjoy!
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]]>There is no conference website but you can view the conference poster here:
Heavy metal conference 2013 poster
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I don’t think I ever blogged before about the Zion Sky compilation. It’s an extraordinary piece of work in which a variety of neo-folk and noise artists reappropriate Zionist aesthetics in a Laibachian manner.
The project is described better than I could on the blog of the Industrialised Culture Research Network, featuring an essay from the curator Avi Pitchon. Here’s an extract:
The Zion Sky compilation album was produced as part of the ‘Where to?‘ art exhibition, which opened in the Israeli Center For Digital Art in April 2012, and was released by the Israeli industrial label Tophet Prophet. The exhibition’s theme was hidden/forgotten/neglected currents in Zionism. The compilation was commissioned and assembled by Avi Pitchon, aiming to appropriate Laibach’s approach and tactic (without any limitation on musical direction besides perhaps a general desire for the sound, as well as content, to express a certain utopian awe) and apply it to Zionist history, thinking, texts and aesthetics. As opposed to the historical/research/archival approach of the majority of the exhibiting artists, ‘Zion Sky’ follows the intently a-historical clash of motifs demonstrated by NSK, as well as the revisiting of Zionism’s aesthetic arsenal evident in the work of prominent Israeli artists like Yael Bartana and the Public Movement performance group. The intention was to speculate on utopian vectors whose trajectory never completed, to ask a ‘what if?’ about Zionism in particular and utopian ideas and movements in general.
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]]>Here’s the trailer for Death Metal Angola:
And here’s the trailer for Terra Pesada:
TERRA PESADA from Wiley Flo Productions on Vimeo.
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