Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2021, Bloomsbury Publishing Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP The 33 1/3 book series of in-depth record reviews has had an arm’s length relationship with Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. For our narrow-minded Metal purposes, of the 153 titles published to date, only five titles (Black Sabbath, Slayer,…
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Brunner, Ike-Taken to The Extreme: Heavy Metal Cover Songs (Book)
Reviewed: January, 2021 Released: 2006, Indie / Bowling Green State University, Ohio Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP The number of academic studies about Heavy Metal is really quite astonishing. It seems to be the new, cool thing for academics to want to study! Generally for our Library Of Loudness section I don’t…
Hoffin, Kevin- Trve: The Norwegian Black Metal Scene (Book Review)
Reviewed: July, 2020 Published: 2020, Independent Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP When is a book really a book? To elaborate on my question, what is the difference between an essay and a short book? I suppose it really doesn’t matter but this review is about a new piece of writing ‘TRVE”:…
Spracklen, Kark Metal Music And The Re-Imagining Of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation (Book Review)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Published: 2020, Emerald Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP The good people at Emerald Publishing continue to support the advancement of metal studies with another book in their series ‘Emerald Studies In Metal Music And Culture’. Metal Music And The Re-Imagining Of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation is…
Varas-Diaz, Nelson & Scott, Niall, (ed) – Heavy Metal Music and The Communal Experience (Book Review)
Reviewed: May, 2020 Released: 2016, Lexington Books Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP As regular readers of The Library Of Loudness may have noted, I enjoy reading and reviewing academic studies of Metal. HEAVY METAL MUSIC AND THE COMMUNAL EXPERIENCE was issued in an expensive hard cover back in 2016 and…
Interview with Metal author and scholar, Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris
Interview with Metal author and scholar, Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris by JP Tell us a bit about yourself! When did you first embrace the Metal as a young person? My relationship with metal as a young person was quite complicated. When I was 9 or 10 I started getting into the…
Rowe, Paula-Heavy Metal Youth Identities (Book Review)
Reviewed: April 2020 Released: 2018, Publisher: Emerald Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP It is no secret that the academic study of Metal has grown immensely in the past few years. Organizations like the International Society for Metal Music Studies, academic conferences held annually around the world, documentaries, and the now regular…
Yfantis, Vasileios- Metal Goes Science
Author: Yfantis, Vasileios Title: Metal Goes Science-The Academic Bibliography of Metal Music Publisher: Independent Released: 2017 Reviewed: May, 2018 Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP I’ve read a lot of books about Metal over the years and this is one of the more unique ones I’ve come across. I’m not even…