Bryan Bardine is associate professor of English at the University of Dayton, where he teaches courses in metal studies, composition, pedagogy, and American and Gothic literature.Jerome Stueart is assistant professor of English (Creative Writing) at Thomas More University, and is a freelance writer, editor, and artist living in Northern Kentucky. His writing has been nominated for a number of awards, including the World Fantasy Award.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresForewordHenkka Seppala, M.A. IntroductionDr. Bryan A. Bardine and Dr. Jerome Stueart,Chapter 1: From The Ashes of the Fallen Empire: Heavy Metal and Community in Post-Apartheid South AfricaEdward Banchs, MAChapter 2: Polar Fate: Mapping Metal at the Southern Edge of the World   Dr. Catherine Hoad Chapter 3: The Enemy Within:  Conceptualizing  Turkish Metalheads as the Ideological ‘Other’Dr. Pierre Hecter and Douglas Mattsson, M.A. Chapter 4: ‘Métal noir épique patriotique’: Analysis of historical, sociological and cultural discourses uniting metal noir québécois and Québec society.Mei-Ra St. Laurent, PhD Chapter 5: Living Sonic Knowledge in South-Eastern Austria: The Sound History of the Metal Scene in Graz and Styria, c. 1980 to the PresentDr. Peter Pichler Chapter 6: Heavy Metal Scene in Osaka: Localness Now and ThenDr. Kei Saito Chapter 7: Heart of Sadness: Fieldwork in the Copenhagen Black Metal Undergrounds  Dr. Tore’ Tvarno Lind Chapter 8: "Dit is Berlin":[1] Local metal scene building and transformation in Berlin, GermanyDr. Wolf-Georg  ZaddachChapter  9:  Old and New: Cross-Generational Community in the Dayton Metal Scene       Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Jacob Hale, M.A.  Chapter 10:  La Belle Endormie Awakened by Hellfest Open Air?: A Study of the NantesHeavy Metal Music SceneDr. Gerome Guibert and Dr. Sophie Turbe’Chapter 11: Heavy Metal in Estonia: Cohesions and Divisions, Past and PresentDr. Toni-Matti KarjalainenChapter 12: From the Sound of the Lathes to the Noise of the Amplifiers: The Heavy Metal           And the Music Scene in the ABC Region of Brazil (1980-1990)Rui Luiz Ferreira Granado, M.A. and Dr. Heloisa de Aaujo Duarte Valente     Chapter 13 : ‘This Is the City of Hate’: Surveying the Hull Metal/Hardcore SceneDr. Lewis Kennedy

'As heavy metal is diversifying within a music culture in which active fan participation is crucial in cementing its longevity, these books are not just an excellent read for casual metal fans, but important for present and future heavy music scholars. [...] These books demonstrate not just how the music is produced and performed within non-Western countries, but also how the genre and culture serve to strengthen the global heavy music community.'Reviewed alongside Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America.