José Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón is a sound artist and music researcher residing in Lima. He holds a PhD in Music from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and is currently Director of the Dirección de Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica at the Universidad Nacional de Música.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesA Long-awaited IntroductionJosé Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón1. Is This Really Us? Translocality, Representation, and Social Functionality of a Peruvian Metal at the Margins of the PeripheryJose´ Ignacio Lo´pez Rami´rez Gasto´n2. The Chakal Sound: Discourses of Authenticity in the Musical Production of Peruvian Extreme Metal (1988-2000)Camilo Uriarte Trancon 3. Semiotics of Horror in the Artistic Works of Metal Album Covers in PerúEduardo Yalán Dongo4. Expanding the Notion of National Music: The Case of the Album Testimonios by the Peruvian Metal Group KraniumRicardo Olavarri´a Ginocchio5. Leather Jackets in the Highlands: The Metal Scene in Puno, Peru´ (1994-2004) Christian Reynoso6. Cobra and Blizzard Hunter Encounters and Mis-encounters of a Return to the Past: Between the Resurgence of Heavy Metal in Lima Peru in the First Decade of the Two Thousand and the Academization of the Teaching of MetalJorge De Souza7. Revelations of Doom: Rise and Sustainability of the Peruvian Metal Scene in a Subnational LevelGiovanni Arriola and Jimy Trujillo8. The Construction of an Apolitical Position for Metal and its Meaning in the Manifestos of the Gran Horda Metallica del PerúCésar G. Monterroso9. Rethinking Metal & Globalization: The Lima Metal Scene as a Case StudyLuci´a de Fa´tima Go´mez GarayAbout the Contributors

Passport to Hell is a relevant collection that provides new information to the growing field of metal music studies. Notably it provides new contributions specially for the Global South, an area often overlooked in this field, and it allows readers to also grasp the history of the metal scene in Peru, a scene that has to be documented in English for scholars.

José Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón is a sound artist and music researcher residing in Lima. He holds a PhD in Music from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and is currently Director of the Dirección de Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica at the Universidad Nacional de Música.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesA Long-awaited IntroductionJosé Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón1. Is This Really Us? Translocality, Representation, and Social Functionality of a Peruvian Metal at the Margins of the PeripheryJose´ Ignacio Lo´pez Rami´rez Gasto´n2. The Chakal Sound: Discourses of Authenticity in the Musical Production of Peruvian Extreme Metal (1988-2000)Camilo Uriarte Trancon 3. Semiotics of Horror in the Artistic Works of Metal Album Covers in PerúEduardo Yalán Dongo4. Expanding the Notion of National Music: The Case of the Album Testimonios by the Peruvian Metal Group KraniumRicardo Olavarri´a Ginocchio5. Leather Jackets in the Highlands: The Metal Scene in Puno, Peru´ (1994-2004) Christian Reynoso6. Cobra and Blizzard Hunter Encounters and Mis-encounters of a Return to the Past: Between the Resurgence of Heavy Metal in Lima Peru in the First Decade of the Two Thousand and the Academization of the Teaching of MetalJorge De Souza7. Revelations of Doom: Rise and Sustainability of the Peruvian Metal Scene in a Subnational LevelGiovanni Arriola and Jimy Trujillo8. The Construction of an Apolitical Position for Metal and its Meaning in the Manifestos of the Gran Horda Metallica del PerúCésar G. Monterroso9. Rethinking Metal & Globalization: The Lima Metal Scene as a Case StudyLuci´a de Fa´tima Go´mez GarayAbout the Contributors

Passport to Hell is a relevant collection that provides new information to the growing field of metal music studies. Notably it provides new contributions specially for the Global South, an area often overlooked in this field, and it allows readers to also grasp the history of the metal scene in Peru, a scene that has to be documented in English for scholars.

José Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón is a sound artist and music researcher residing in Lima. He holds a PhD in Music from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and is currently Director of the Dirección de Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica at the Universidad Nacional de Música.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesA Long-awaited IntroductionJosé Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón1. Is This Really Us? Translocality, Representation, and Social Functionality of a Peruvian Metal at the Margins of the PeripheryJose´ Ignacio Lo´pez Rami´rez Gasto´n2. The Chakal Sound: Discourses of Authenticity in the Musical Production of Peruvian Extreme Metal (1988-2000)Camilo Uriarte Trancon 3. Semiotics of Horror in the Artistic Works of Metal Album Covers in PerúEduardo Yalán Dongo4. Expanding the Notion of National Music: The Case of the Album Testimonios by the Peruvian Metal Group KraniumRicardo Olavarri´a Ginocchio5. Leather Jackets in the Highlands: The Metal Scene in Puno, Peru´ (1994-2004) Christian Reynoso6. Cobra and Blizzard Hunter Encounters and Mis-encounters of a Return to the Past: Between the Resurgence of Heavy Metal in Lima Peru in the First Decade of the Two Thousand and the Academization of the Teaching of MetalJorge De Souza7. Revelations of Doom: Rise and Sustainability of the Peruvian Metal Scene in a Subnational LevelGiovanni Arriola and Jimy Trujillo8. The Construction of an Apolitical Position for Metal and its Meaning in the Manifestos of the Gran Horda Metallica del PerúCésar G. Monterroso9. Rethinking Metal & Globalization: The Lima Metal Scene as a Case StudyLuci´a de Fa´tima Go´mez GarayAbout the Contributors

Passport to Hell is a relevant collection that provides new information to the growing field of metal music studies. Notably it provides new contributions specially for the Global South, an area often overlooked in this field, and it allows readers to also grasp the history of the metal scene in Peru, a scene that has to be documented in English for scholars.