Passport to Hell is a relevant collection that provides new information to the growing field of metal music studies. Notably it provides new contributions specially for the Global South, an area often overlooked in this field, and it allows readers to also grasp the history of the metal scene in Peru, a scene that has to be documented in English for scholars.

Edward Banchs, author of Scream for Me, Africa! Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa

This book represents an important addition for metal music studies; one that is not interested in catering to the established Global North field or its burgeoning Global South counterpart, but which, instead, is intent on forging its own path and manifesting its own independent voice. López Ramírez and the collections’ authors challenge the monolithic notion of Perú, a notion constructed by outsiders and some insiders alike within various fields. In place of this misguided monolith, they offer a polyvalent study that captures a multifaceted Perú, along with its brand of metal, with impeccable nuance.

Daniel Nevárez Araújo, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras