My latest metal-related research is a short review article about Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album (aka. the “Black Album”) which has been published in the latest issue of the journal Metal Music Studies, vol. 7 no. 3.
This piece examines the impact that the Black Album has had over the last 31 years. Specifically, I look at how the Black Album inspired and influenced alternative metal music, and how images and ideas from the Black Album made their way into American alt-right politics/culture after the millennium.
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