Full Description
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR METAL MUSIC STUDIES' BEST BOOK AWARD 2025.
For many fans, metal was visual before it was aural. This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean where this visual register allows creators and consumers to engage in four distinct strategies (i.e., seeing, revealing, inverting, and appearing) as part of what the authors have termed "extreme decolonial dialogues." They support their position through a diverse lens that examines essential aspects of the visual dimensions of metal music: album artwork, clothing, film, sites, and activist practices.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Synesthetic Experience
Pablo Trangone
Singer - Arraigo (Argentina)
PART ONE: SEEING
Chapter 1
Seeing Metal Music: Notes Regarding an Ontological Act
PART TWO: REVEALING
Chapter 2
Documentary Film and Metal Music Elsewhere
Chapter 3
Caribbean Metal and Colonial Truth-Telling
Chapter 4
Metal Shirts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Frayed, Faded, Weathered, Alive
PART THREE: INVERTING
Chapter 5
Metal Music / Indigenous Bodies
Chapter 6
¡Al Machete!: Images of Resistance in Caribbean Metal Music
Chapter 7:
Humor and the Disruptive Hybridization of Visual Conventions in Our Metal Music
PART FOUR: APPEARING
Chapter 8
Metal Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chapter 9
An Invitation to an Ethics of Affront
Bibliography
About the Authors
