Metal Music Studies
Accounts of people who engage with heavy metal music & culture from a research perspective. Metal Music Studies is a growing, interdisciplinary field composed of metalheads in not only musicology and sociology, but a diversity of social sciences and humanities.
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@metalclassicist.bsky.social
@dayofthesaxons.bsky.social
she/they. History student, metalhead, gamer, av tech, and collector of far too many CDs.
@15gramsofreligion.bsky.social
Religious studies scholar, metalhead, influencer and geek. Check my channel 15 Grams of Religion! https://linktr.ee/15gramsofreligionofficial
@leireolabarria.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham
@ravenlyght.bsky.social
Conférencière en religions anciennes et folklores féminins Autrice, amoureuse de cafés et de livres
@rubengherrera.bsky.social
Periodismo, Antropología y Música. Agencia de Comunicación y Marketing Digital: Colectivo Melón. Metal Studies (ISMMS) 2025, Sevilla.
@ruthbarrattpeacock.bsky.social
Writes on metal, childhood, East Asian popular culture, and Romanticism.
@claracwanning.bsky.social
Art 20 lV GG Finding my place somewhere in between negative dialectics and horse stories
@gabistas.bsky.social
Lover of art, literature, culture and nature. Academically immersed in musicology and sociology. Journalist. Amateur painter. Amateur singer. Professional ignoramus of crowds and uniformity. And I love music, metal especially!
@rosshagen.bsky.social
Musicologist at Utah Valley University | Monstrology bassist https://linktr.ee/rosshagen
@broxton8r.bsky.social
University of Sheffield. Currently writing PhD proposal. Criminology. Interests in far right extremism, online hate, and media and crime. Metalhead gamer, wrestling fan and book lover
@rosieoverell.bsky.social
⛧°｡⋆༺ rosie ༻⋆｡°⛧ Media / Film / Comms @ Otago Aotearoa NZ Lacan | ikebana | grindcore | feminism
@metalmedievalist.bsky.social
History Grad in Bologna | Middle Ages & Medievalisms | Byzantines & Heavy Metal | Fedele allo Imperatore
@manuelatapprich.bsky.social
MA student in Cultural Analysis & Social Sciences at the University of Zurich,🇨🇭 Currently writing my thesis: 'The Constructed Other in the Extreme: Belonging and Boundary-Making in Death Metal Scenes" Cultural studies | Metal studies | Ethnography
@revjamesclarke.bsky.social
Ordained Interfaith/Omnist/Pluralist Chaplain and Community Minister, Unitarian Universalist Lay Person, Father, Husband, Music Lover, Bassist, and Meme Maker
@benhillier16.bsky.social
Australian metal academic, antifascist activist. PhD in music theory/ethnomusicology studying Australian extreme metal and far-right metal. Opinions my own.
@redbosh.bsky.social
Musicologist and art theorist; Research Associate @ Instutute of Musicology SASA 🇷🇸; Editor-in-Chief @ INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology🇧🇦 Researching voice, metal music, contemporary music and art. https://www.bojanaradovanovic.com/
@arturomorarioja.bsky.social
Musician, Literature Scholar, Computer Science Engineer, Teacher. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
@keletkezes.bsky.social
Roleplayer; hobby artist; D&D fanfic writer; admin Nottm Hearing BRC; volunteer & trustee @newarkairmuseum.bsky.social; Soviet RU metal music research; polymath. Pan demiro ace agender; autistic. keletkezes.wordpress.com for #D&D campaign write-up stuff
@metalbyzantinist.bsky.social
@springmcmlxxiv.bsky.social
she/they. metal, gaming, shitposting. dayofthesaxons.medium.com / discord: afairjudgement
@arosefromthedead.bsky.social
Falmouth University PhD student. scholar of queer horror, Tumblr, vampires, and Ghost. not-so-mild-mannered instructional designer by day.
@srhgbg.bsky.social
Host of Australian Hunger. The Curious Case of Cannibal Corpse miniseries coming soon. Metal data visualisation project, Datagraphica Metallum, coming soon.
@metalstats.bsky.social
Plots, maps, and stats on heavy metal. Check out my work at: https://metalstats.wordpress.com/ https://app.flourish.studio/@metalstats
@realjoediaz.bsky.social
Independent Educator for Hire. Will Teach for Food. https://linktr.ee/joediaz
@literarymetal.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English Contemporary US Lit & Culture Pynchon | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre | TV | Political Violence | Antifascism | Star Wars he/him Views my own Birmingham and Durham, UK
@libmetal.bsky.social
College librarian, researcher of loud music and motherhood, co-writer of Heavy Music Mothers, Lexington Books, 2023
@charlottedoesburg.bsky.social
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Music | Somerville College, University of Oxford. Researching identity negotiations by Russian and Finnish Karelian metal bands. Committed to providing a messy smorgasbord of hysterical and whimsical ideas.
@thhindrichs.bsky.social
Musikwissenschaftler | Antifaschist | er/ihm, he/him | #rechtsrocktnicht | #Musikwissenschaft | #musicology | #Betze | #diesdas
@audioontology.bsky.social
ambient metaphysics | radical aesthetics | sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning https://lahri.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/jamie-stephenson/ ORCID: 0009-0002-8211-6586
@herasalander.bsky.social
MHA (the degree). She/they. Writer/reviewer, researcher, and metalhead. Se habla castellano/español. Nazis a la horca. #metalbandcampgiftclub #metalmusicstudies
@kindmetalteacher.bsky.social
Denmark's Upper Secondary Teacher of the Year 2017, dabbles in part-time scholarship, may often be found talking about Teaching, Templars, and Tolkien - sometimes combined. Studies far-right appropriation of the Middle Ages against my better judgment.
@eurydicesophie.bsky.social
PhD in Ancient History. Childhood studies, Ancient Greek Religion/Histoire des Religions, Classical Reception Studies. Chargée de cours à l’Université de Lorraine. "Membre associée" à l’UR 1132 SAMA. I (proudly) teach History in highschool for a living
@historyboy89.bsky.social
A history professor focused on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. In my spare time I listen to heavy metal music and pet cats.
@larissaglasser.bsky.social
I wrote F4. I like bunnies, heavy metal, medieval history, Clark Ashton Smith. My dad was an anti-Franco spy during the Spanish Civil War, a mafia lawyer, and told Nixon where to stick it. Antifa4Life, Trans rights now, DeathToMAGA
@garrt.bsky.social
Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky
@metalanalysis.bsky.social
PhD: heavy metal studies Band: S(Ⱥ) | ∞ | a.p.-1 https://absentsignifier.bandcamp.com/ Theory: negative universality | politics of enjoyment | aesthetics of the bad | uncultural studies
@galliatransalpina.bsky.social
Underemployed Ancient Historian with a focus on Late Iron Age and Roman Gaul and issues of ethnicty, class, gender, and social power under Roman Imperialism. Attempting to break back into academia. She/Her
@simonjptrafford.bsky.social
Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
@scriptingjapan.bsky.social
Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him. https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
@frandji.bsky.social
~ brazilian, historian, tropical goth. Ancient History, Classical Reception, Gender Studies, Roman Egypt.
@sasoeurjuliette.bsky.social
Academia alter-ego of Juliette de Bertole. #Celestina #BookHistory #HispanicMedievalLiterature #HispanicStudies #MetalStudies
@profjackie.bsky.social
Medievalist and art historian @Yale University, Melville fanatic, music lover, cat mom. Author of THE GOTHIC SCREEN and ELOQUENT BODIES: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture
@dantlux.bsky.social
Writer belonging nowhere / rainbow black metal enthusiast / multilangue à Montréal-Tiohtià:ke / miscommunications officer
@clairemcathrine.bsky.social
PhD: 'Representing Marock: A Study of Visual and Material Culture, Identity Formation and Community-Building in Botswana'. Research interests: art, anthropology, global visual and material culture, costuming, death, subcultures and digital humanities
@lainad.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral scholar @CWRU. Music Critic. Metalhead. Author, "What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal: https://www.amazon.com/What-Are-You-Doing-Here/dp/1935950053
@keithkahnharris.bsky.social
Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
@zostepatrikia.bsky.social
Textile Archaeologist PhDing @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Dissertation on the representation of power via dress and appearance in Late Antique Sicily. US Gold Star Spouse. Florida woman. she/her
@dr-kath.bsky.social
Independent scholar of English / comparative and general literature: intertextuality | concept album, PhD, bilingual (German / English), creator of the blog #aircraftalbatrossandabeast, job seeking, (she / her) https://personalhomepagehagenk.wordpress.com
@nathanielskatz.bsky.social
Roman Historian (what happens after emperor gets assassinated?). Lecturer at University of Arizona. Outside academia: rap & metal music, SFF fiction, Seinfeld.
@metalbiblescholar.bsky.social
Metal studies, biblical studies, feminism, gender studies, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ally, disability activism, vegan for the animals...a lot more fun than I sound. I promise.
@drchristinah.bsky.social
Roman historian working as a Program Manager. Gender, material culture, digital humanities, classical reception in metal music. I also make chain maille. Academic CV and links to my other pages: https://linktr.ee/infestissima
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
VAP in Classics at Grand Valley State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in Metal. he/him “Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome” out September 26th with Oxford University Press. Curriculum vitae: tinyurl.com/SwistCV