The fascination of both fascism and heavy metal for similar aspects of the Middle Ages (power, masculinity, heroism…) and their reliance on a shared cultural background of medievalising Western pop-culture make it difficult to distinguish heavy metal narratives from fascist ones. In this paper I will explore how undistinguishable medievalising…[Read more]

In the last years, the relationship between cultural identity and music has become a major focus of Heavy Metal Studies. Edited volumes like Metal Rules the Globe (2011), Global Metal Music and Culture (2016) and Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music (2018) account for some of the most interesting pages on this topic. It has also been an important…[Read more]