Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at the Florida International University.Niall Scott is senior lecturer in ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.

• Introduction: Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience – Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall ScottPart 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing CollectivenessChapter 1: Communities of Metal: Ideal, Diminished and Imaginary - Deena WeinsteinChapter 2: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction: You Play and We’ll Destroy the House! - Niall ScottChapter 3: Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out - Esther Clinton and Jeremy WallachPart 2: Strengthening CommunityChapter 4: Ride between Hell and Paradise: Imaginaerum as Mental Anchoring Place for the Global Nightwish Fan Community - Toni-Matti KarjalainenChapter 5: “We’re in this Together and We Take Care of our Own”: Narrative Constructions of Metal Community Told by Metal Youth - Paula RowePart 3: Communities in Contextual InteractionChapter 6: Porous Communities: Critical Interactions between Metal Music and Local Culture in the Caribbean Context - Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sigrid Mendoza and Eric MoralesPart 4: Tensions withi

Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience adds to the growing number of excellent metal scholarship being produced each year. The editors have included chapters which examine the various roles community plays in Metal music and culture—though they are the first ones to put so much together in one place. I plan on using this book in my course on Metal Culture and History!

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at the Florida International University.Niall Scott is senior lecturer in ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.

• Introduction: Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience – Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall ScottPart 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing CollectivenessChapter 1: Communities of Metal: Ideal, Diminished and Imaginary - Deena WeinsteinChapter 2: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction: You Play and We’ll Destroy the House! - Niall ScottChapter 3: Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out - Esther Clinton and Jeremy WallachPart 2: Strengthening CommunityChapter 4: Ride between Hell and Paradise: Imaginaerum as Mental Anchoring Place for the Global Nightwish Fan Community - Toni-Matti KarjalainenChapter 5: “We’re in this Together and We Take Care of our Own”: Narrative Constructions of Metal Community Told by Metal Youth - Paula RowePart 3: Communities in Contextual InteractionChapter 6: Porous Communities: Critical Interactions between Metal Music and Local Culture in the Caribbean Context - Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sigrid Mendoza and Eric MoralesPart 4: Tensions withi

Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience adds to the growing number of excellent metal scholarship being produced each year. The editors have included chapters which examine the various roles community plays in Metal music and culture—though they are the first ones to put so much together in one place. I plan on using this book in my course on Metal Culture and History!

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at the Florida International University.Niall Scott is senior lecturer in ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.

• Introduction: Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience – Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall ScottPart 1: Entering the Communal and Conceptualizing CollectivenessChapter 1: Communities of Metal: Ideal, Diminished and Imaginary - Deena WeinsteinChapter 2: Absurd Communities of Misanthropic Paradox Destruction: You Play and We’ll Destroy the House! - Niall ScottChapter 3: Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out - Esther Clinton and Jeremy WallachPart 2: Strengthening CommunityChapter 4: Ride between Hell and Paradise: Imaginaerum as Mental Anchoring Place for the Global Nightwish Fan Community - Toni-Matti KarjalainenChapter 5: “We’re in this Together and We Take Care of our Own”: Narrative Constructions of Metal Community Told by Metal Youth - Paula RowePart 3: Communities in Contextual InteractionChapter 6: Porous Communities: Critical Interactions between Metal Music and Local Culture in the Caribbean Context - Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sigrid Mendoza and Eric MoralesPart 4: Tensions withi

Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience adds to the growing number of excellent metal scholarship being produced each year. The editors have included chapters which examine the various roles community plays in Metal music and culture—though they are the first ones to put so much together in one place. I plan on using this book in my course on Metal Culture and History!