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This book creates necessary dialogue within the world of heavy metal by bringing together multiple regions in the Global South.

Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors stress how metal music is used throughout the Global South to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Of “Metal” and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal Studies
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther Clinton

Section 1. CONCEPTUALIZING THE DISTORTED SOUTH
1. Metal Music in the Distorted South: A Call for Defiance and Reflection
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther Clinton

Section 2: HOPE
2. An Exegesis of Excess: Reverberations and Connotations of Feminisms Cartographed via Metal Music in the Global South
Susana González-Martínez
3. Reclaiming Aotearoa: Stories of Experimentation, Education, and Reflection in Aotearoa Indigenous Metal Music
Didier Goossens
4. “A Whole New Type of Isolation”: Resilience and Hope in the Navajo Nation Metal Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020–2021
Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage Bond

Section 3. SOCIAL CHANGE
5. “We Play Heavy Metal Because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal”: A Generation of Metal in the Middle East and North Africa
Mark LeVine
6. Youth Activism and Decolonial Metal: Voice Of Baceprot and Alien Weaponry as Case Studies
Paula Rowe
7. Coloniality and Gender in the Argentinian Metal Scene: A Study through Four Cases
Manuela Belén Calvo

Section 4. DIALOGUES
8. An Interview on Contar/Cantar Memórias da Resistência
Susane Hécate (Miasthenia) and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
9. Misusing Things in Metal Music: A Dialogue
Manuel Gagneux (Zeal & Ardor) and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
10. The Alternative Side of the Frame: A Dialogue on Southern Inspirations
Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land) and Nelson Varas-Díaz
11. A Dialogue on Metal Festivals and Social Justice
Tshomarelo “Vulture” Mosaka (Overthrust) and Edward Banchs

Section 5. DIASPORA
12. The Ultra-Violence: Death Angel and Asian American Presence/Absence in Heavy Metal
Kevin Fellezs
Chapter 13: “Somewhere They Belong”: Metal, Ethnicity, and Scenic Solidarities in Malaysia's Underground Scenes (1990s to 2000s)
Azmyl Yusof and Adil Johan

Section 6: TRANSGRESSION
14. Ancient, Evil, and African: Heavy Metal and Conflict in East Africa
Edward Banchs
15. The Influence of Different Satanic Panics on the Transgressive Practices of Metal Music in Egypt, Iran, and Syria
Pasqualina Eckerstro¨m

Section 7: RESISTANCE AND COMMUNITY
16. Decolonizing the Mind's Eye: Images of Resistance in Caribbean Metal Music
Nelson Varas-Díaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
17. Nongkrong, Value of Community, and Everyday Resistance in the Indonesian Metal Scene
Oki Rahadianto Sutopo and Agustinus Aryo Lukisworo
18: Satan Wasn't There: The Perseverance of the Moroccan Metal Scene
Amine Hamma and Brian Trott

Epilogue. Metal Unbound
Esther Clinton, Jeremy Wallach, Nelson Varas-Díaz, and Daniel Nevárez Araújo

Product details

Published Jan 07 2027
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 432
ISBN 9781793651877
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 21 b/w photos
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Nelson Varas-Díaz

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and socio…

Anthology Editor

Jeremy Wallach

Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in…

Anthology Editor

Esther Clinton

Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular…

Anthology Editor

Daniel Nevárez Araújo

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Edward Banchs

Edward Banchs is a freelance writer and an indepen…

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Sage Bond

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Esther Clinton

Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular…

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Kobi Farhi

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Kevin Fellezs

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Manuel Gagneux

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Susana González-Martínez

Susana González-Martínez is a Marie Sklodowska-Cur…

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Didier Goossens

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Amine Hamma

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Susane Hécate

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Adil Johan

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Mark LeVine

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Paula Rowe

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Brian Trott

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Nelson Varas-Díaz

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and socio…

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Jeremy Wallach

Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in…

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Azmyl Yusof

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