My new book Heaviness in Metal Music was recently released online by Oxford University Press, and the folks at Occidental College’s Center for Research and Scholarship have helped me put together a short video summarizing the book’s main ideas. It’s part of their OxyTalks video series which features professors at the college explaining their research. Check it out below, or at the college’s YouTube channel!

Coming soon—an official book playlist, a book launch event, and a discount code if you want to purchase a physical copy. I’ll post updates here.

Thanks to Jasmine Teran, Laura Paisley, and Sasha Sherman for their help editing the script, filming, and producing the video.

The book was published open-access, which means that the full text can be read online for free through Oxford Academic: https://academic.oup.com/book/62310

The book is also available for pre-order in paperback, hardback, or E-book editions, and it is scheduled to be released April 10—in just a week and a half!