Concerns have been raised that prolonged exposure to heavy metal music with aggressive
themes can increase the risk of aggression, anger, antisocial behaviour, substance use …

Berkers, P., Verboord, M., & Weij, F.(2016).“These critics (still) don't write enough about
women artists”: Gender inequality in the newspaper coverage of arts and culture in France …

How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing
mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodied cognitive …

Furek, MW (2008). The death proclamation of Generation X: A self-fulfilling prophesy of goth,
grunge and heroin. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Futrell, R., Simi, P., & …

Despite being one of the oldest and largest metal nations, little research on metal music from
Germany exists. This article focuses on the formation of the West German power metal …

Heavy metal as a music culture has immense social influence across the world. In recent
years scholars have started to scrutinise metal music from a sociocultural perspective; yet …

This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy metal music draws on the
ancient Greek and Roman world. Contributors examine bands from across the globe …

Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has imprisoned musicians,
especially punk, hip-hop, and hard rock bands, as well as those playing heavy metal …

Traditional neurobiological theories of musical emotions explain well why extreme music
such as punk, hardcore, or metal—whose vocal and instrumental characteristics share much …

Black Sabbath are an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne
(lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (electric bass), and Bill Ward (drums and …