Events

Metal et Metalheads: Des Mythes et Des Rites

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Conference at the Philharmonie de Paris with the collaboration of the International Society for Metal Music Studies 5–6 April 2024 https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/colloque/26793-metal-et-metalheads-des-mythes-et-des-rites Designed to resonate with the international exhibition presented at the Philharmonie de Paris, this conference explores and questions this culture, its representations, its audiences and its paradoxes with international artists, professionals and researchers. The … Read more

Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity II

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The second running of this biennial conference will take place March 15-17, 2024 on Zoom. Registration is free and open to all, and required to attend. Register here. For the full program of panels, workshops, and events, and other information, including the conference playlist, see the conference website here.

Black Metal is for Everyone! Symposium and Concert 28–29 February, 2024, Indiana University Bloomington

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Please see details below about this event or view the full website here. Black metal is extreme music: fast tempos, heavy guitar, screeching vocals – it’s not usually thought of as everyday, easy listening., that’s for sure.  Black metal got its start in 1990s Scandanavia and was associated with church burnings, Satanism, and acts of … Read more

CfP: Heavy metal on the airwaves symposium

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Friday February 2nd 2024, Liverpool John Moores University, School of Humanities and Social Science Historically, heavy rock and metal music seems to have had a somewhat uneasy relationship with rock radio. As Deena Weinstein (2000) notes, during the late 1970s when bands such as AC/DC and Kiss were enjoying substantial success in terms of concert … Read more

CfP for Metal and Transgression: Scenes, Politics, and Religion (Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia), 6–7 September 2023

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Call for papers As one of the many branches of rock music, metal was identified with notions of transgressiveness, controversy, and rebelliousness, both by internal scene members and outsiders. As such, the neverending quest for transgression and controversy became one of the most important driving forces of metal’s artistic and social practice, urging the metalheads … Read more

ISMMS 2023 Conference: Call for Proposals

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No Outsides: Metal in an Era of Contagion June 6–8 2023, Concordia University Six decades from its counter-cultural inception, what remains of metal’s relation to the outside forces of extremity, abolition, and transformation? If there’s a common commitment to which the field of metal studies remains faithful, it is one invested in the outside. Such … Read more

ISMMS 2023 Tiohtià:ke – No Outsides: Metal in an Era of Contagion

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Save the date: June 6–8 2023 Concordia University Full CFP and more information on the 2023 conference coming soon! Six decades from its counter-cultural inception, what remains of metal’s relation to the outside forces of extremity, abolition and transformation? If there’s a common commitment to which the field of metal studies remains faithful, it is one … Read more