Sisällysluettelo:
“…Contents -- Appreciation -- Acknowledgments -- Studying metal : the bricolage of culture -- Heavymetal : the beast that refuses to die -- Making the music : metal gods -- Digging the music : proud pariahs -- Transmitting the music : metal media -- The concert : metal epiphany -- Maligning the music : metal detractors -- Metal in the '90s -- Appendix A: Suggested hearings : 100 definitive metal albums -- Appendix B: Gender preferences for metal subgenres -- Appendix C: Proportions of heavymetal albums in Billboard's top 100 -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author…”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…Mysticism and metal music -- To be experienced, not understood: empirical mysticisms in trance, dub and drone -- Beyond heaviness: listener experience in a translocal and marginal genre -- Pilgrimages to elsewhere: languages of ineffability, otherness and ambiguity -- Amplifier worship: materiality and mysticism in heavy sound -- Methods to cross the abyss: ritual, violence and noise -- Conclusion: Drone metal mysticism…”