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Death of a guitar hero: The art of metal reputation maintenance 吉他英雄之死：维护金属声誉的艺术

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00104_1

Bernard East

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Bezugnahmen auf den Nationalsozialismus in der populären Musik: Lesarten zu Laibach, Death in June, Feindflug, Rammstein und Marduk, Reinhard Kopanski (2022) 流行音乐中对国家社会主义的引用：读莱巴赫、六月之死、芬德夫格、拉姆斯坦和马尔杜克、莱因哈德·科潘斯基（2022）

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00108_5

Anna-Katharina Höpflinger

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Baroque metaphors and Nietzschean influence in Vivaldi Metal Project’s The Four Seasons 巴洛克隐喻与尼采对维瓦尔第金属计划《四季》的影响

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00106_1

Sara Santa-Aguilar

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Editorial 编辑

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00102_2

Nelson Varas-Díaz, Nedim Hassan, Ross Hagen, Niall Scott

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Heavy Metal Armour: A Visual Study of Battle Jackets, Thomas Cardwell (2022) 《重金属盔甲:战斗夹克的视觉研究》，托马斯·卡德威尔著(2022)

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00109_5

Jan-Martijn Meij

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Lorna Shore’s ‘To the Hellfire’: A study in heaviness 洛娜·肖尔的《地狱之火》：沉重感研究

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00105_1

Jan Herbst, M. Mynett

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Joker to the thief: Trickster guitarists in 1970s stadium rock 小丑对小偷:70年代体育场摇滚中的魔术师吉他手

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00103_1

Matthew Bannister

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Don’t Break the Oath, Henrik Marstal (2022) 不要违背誓言，Henrik Marstal（2022）

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00110_5

Wolf-Georg Zaddach

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A pseudo-rebellion: Ujung Berung metalheads in the contestation of identity space in Bandung, 2010–22 一场伪叛乱：2010–22年，万隆身份空间之争中的乌荣·贝隆金属头

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00107_1

Z. Alkatiri, Mochamad Aviandy, Fajar Muhammad Nugraha, Hawe Setiawan, Melisa Indriana Putri

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Pure fucking art: Self-harm and performance art in Per ‘Dead’ Ohlin’s musical legacy 纯粹的艺术：Per‘Dead’Ohlin音乐遗产中的自残和行为艺术

Metal Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/mms_00096_1

Joshua Carey

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