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• ISMMS 2024 Elections Results
  by ISMMS
  11 December 2024
  The ISMMS Board is grateful to all members who voted in the ISMMS Board Elections. If you want to vote in future elections and help shape the future of metal studies, you can join the society here. The election for Secretary was between Rose Johnson and David Miguel. Rose was elected as Secretary, leaving the … Read more
• PhD Scholarships: The Leverhulme Amplification Project at the University of Huddersfield, UK
  by ISMMS
  9 December 2024
  We’re sharing this on behalf of colleagues at the University of Huddersfield. They have announced 12 fully funded 4-year PhD studentships for projects relating to amplification. Among the relevant topics, the call specifically suggests ‘a focus on the role of amplification in rock or metal’ as an indicative topic. The deadline is 25th January 2025, … Read more
• CfP: Metal Music Studies Retrospectives
  by ISMMS
  21 October 2024
  In celebration of the 10th year of Metal Music Studies, we (Ross Hagen and Edward Banchs) are compiling a section of short retrospectives on foundational and important publications for the reviews section. We are aiming for a mix of titles that includes books aimed at general audiences in addition to academic monographs and edited collections. We are … Read more
• Call for Contributions: What’s Left of Metal?: A compendium from Revol Press
  by ISMMS
  7 October 2024
  This call can also be read on Revol Press’ website. Heavy metal and the political left have a complex relationship. Metal is well-known for its “radical toleration” (Berger 1999) of all manner of reactionary practices and beliefs, from casual misogyny to far-right organizing. Yet metal also features a strong current of prescient social criticism, identifiably … Read more
• ISMMS Elections 2024
  by ISMMS
  1 October 2024
  Election for ISMMS Executive Board Positions, Nov-Dec 2024 The positions of Webmaster and Secretary on the ISMMS Executive Board will become available at the end of the current terms of Dr Steven Gamble and Dr Owen Coggins. We therefore call for candidates to nominate themselves to serve four year terms in these positions from January … Read more
• CfP: Metal and Change: Metal’s Role in an Ever-Changing World
  by ISMMS
  16 May 2024
  Since its inception Metal music has been in constant flux, whether in the development of new genres and subgenres to the way that it has been perceived in society over time. Metal music and culture, to survive, need to adapt to a world constantly in upheaval, whether through changing attitudes toward the music, changes in … Read more
• Philharmonic Metal
  by ISMMS
  15 May 2024
  Metal: Diabolus in musica exhibition, open 5 April to 29 September 2024, Philharmonie de Paris Owen Coggins Metal at the Philharmonie de Paris At the beginning of April 2024 I attended the opening of easily the biggest and most impressive museum exhibition on heavy metal in the world to date. Metal, as a subculture of … Read more
• CfP: Between Riffs and Rebellions: Female and Queer Presence in Latin American Heavy Metal
  by ISMMS
  9 April 2024
  Please see the below call for a special issue of the Chilean journal Contrapulso. They accept papers in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. The call is printed in that order below. Llamado a Contrapulso 6/2 (noviembre 2024) cierre 9 de septiembre 2024 Contrapulsoes una revista semestral de acceso libre publicada por la Universidad Alberto Hurtado de … Read more
• Metal et Metalheads: Des Mythes et Des Rites
  by ISMMS
  25 March 2024
  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