New book chapter
A chapter about black metal was recently published in a new anthology. https://www.su.se/hsd/english/research/publications/assistant-professor-ketil-thorgersen-publishes-an-article-about-black-metal-music-1.484328
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Metal Music Studies Issue 6.1 Available Now!
Intellect is pleased to announce that Metal Music Studies 6.1 is now available! Articles include, ‘Glocalization, bricolage and black metal: Towards a music-centric youth culture simultaneously exemplifying the global and the glocal’, ‘From The Wicker Man (1973) to Atlantean Kodex: Extreme music, alternative identities and the invention of paganism’ and ‘From Bach to Helloween: ‘Teutonic’ … Read more
PhD scholarship related to creative music production at the University of Huddersfield
Please note we have a PhD Scholarship in Creative Music Production just advertised at the University of Huddersfield. It is open to a range of research areas and approaches, and we particularly invite projects on metal music production. https://research.hud.ac.uk/research-degrees/researchscholarships/mhmscholarships/creative-music/ Call for Applications Creative Music Production Scholarship The Department of Music and Humanities is pleased … Read more
New ISMMS Board members!
Please welcome Reinhard Kopanski and Douglas Mattsson as our two new ordinary members of the ISMMS board! We’ve got lots of things in the pipeline, so we’re looking forward to putting them to work! 🙂
Call for new Board Members
The International Society for Metal Music Studies was founded with the purpose to bring Metal scholars from around the world together to share ideas, develop new research, and grow our field. As the organization has expanded over the years, we have seen that happen through the creation of the only journal specifically for Metal research, … Read more
Membership in ISMMS
May 13, 2019 Dear past and present ISMMS membership, The Executive Board of ISMMS is excited to announce that we are reopening membership to the organization. We have reorganized our membership process and we look forward to expanding our membership, working together to make the organization bigger and stronger than it was before. We have … Read more
So Let It Be Written…
This ISMMS Blog will provide a space for posting ISMMS news, calls for papers, job postings, publication announcements, guest editorials & book reviews, and probably some Abbath memes.