Index

Abba (band), 1

AC/DC (band), 1 , 2

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (film), 1

aggression, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

alienation, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

Altars of Madness (album), 1

Anthrax (band), 1 , 2

anti-Asian attitudes, 1 . See also racism

anti-Christianity, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Anti-Nazi League, 1

anti-racist politics, 1 , 2 , 3

Anti-Road (protest movement), 1

anti-Semitic attitudes, 1 . See also racism

Araya, Tom, 1

artwork (cover), 1 , 2

Asia, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Asian Underground (music genre), 1

Asocial (band), 1

Australian Music Retailers’ Association, 1

Australian Record Industry Association, 1

Barnes, Chris, 1 , 2 , 3

Battle of Seattle (protest movement), 1 , 2

Becerra, Jeff, 1

Belnap, Raymond, 1

Benton, Glen, 1

Billboard, 1 , 2 , 3

bisexuality, 1

black cultural politics, 1 , 2 , 3

black metal, 1 , 2 . See also Satanic metal/Satanism

Black Power (movement), 1

Black Sabbath (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

black urban experience. See ghetto communities

Blair, Linda, 1

The Bleeding (album), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Blessed are the Sick (album), 1

Blizzard of Ozz (album), 1

Bloodthirst (album), 1

Blue Öyster Cult (band), 1

Bolt Thrower (band), 1

Bon Jovi (band), 1

Bricolage, 1 , 2

Britpop (music genre), 1

brutal death metal, 1

Bullen, Nic, 1 , 2

Burns, Scott, 1

Bush, Kate, 1

Butchered at Birth (album), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Cannibal Corpse (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ; civil suit (1994), 1

cannibalism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

capitalism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Carcass (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Carrey, Jim, 1

Cause of Death (album), 1 , 2

CBS/Osbourne court case (1985), 1

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years (DVD), 1

Christianity, 1 , 2 ; anti-Christianity, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Chronos (singer), 1 , 2

civil rights movements, 1

the Clash (band), 1

Columbia Records/Judas Priest court case (1990), 1

consumer/consumerism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

“Cookie Monster” vocal style, 1 , 2

the Cortinas (band), 1

Costello, Elvis, 1

Cryptopsy (band), 1

cultural studies, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Cynic (band), 1

Dada, 1

dance music. See electronic dance music (EDM)

dance parties, 1 , 2 , 3 . See also rave culture

Dark Angel, 1

Dead Boys (band), 1

Death (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

death metal: American bands, 1 ; emergence as subgenre, 1 , 2 ; UK and Europe bands, 1 . See also lyrics; musical pleasure; political critique of metal; reorientation of listening

deathgrind, 1 , 2

Debauchery (band), 1

decay, decomposition and putrefaction (human remains), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Def Leppard (band), 1

Deicide (album), 1

Deicide (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; civil suit (1994), 1

deindustrialization, 1 , 2

Derrida (Jacques), 1

despair, 1 , 2 , 3

destabilization, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

Dickinson, Bruce, 1

Dirty Rotten LP (album), 1

disempowerment, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

disenfranchisement, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 . See also social inequality

Dismember (band), 1

DJs, 1 , 2

Dokken (band), 1

doom metal, 1

Dorrian, Lee, 1

D.R.I, 1

drone metal, 1

drugs, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; dealing, 1 , 2

Earthdream2000 (protest movement), 1 , 2

EarthFirst! (protest movement), 1 , 2

Eaten Back to Life (album), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

electronic dance music (EDM), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ; jouissance, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ; pleasure, and, 1 ; political critique, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . See also rave culture

empowerment, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Entombed (band), 1

Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (film), 1

Evisceration Plague (album), 1

The Exorcist (film), 1

extreme metal, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ; global metal, 1 . See also black metal; deathgrind; death metal; doom metal; drone metal; grindcore; musical pleasure; political critique of metal; Viking metal

fanzines, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

fascism, 1 , 2 . See also Nazism

fatalism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

feminism, 1 , 2 , 3

Frankfurt School, 1 , 2

From Enslavement to Obliteration (album), 1 , 2

Gallery of Suicide (album), 1

Gang of Four (band), 1 , 2 , 3

gangsta rap, 1 , 2 , 3

ghetto communities, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

glam metal, 1 , 2

global metal, 1 ; “whiteness,” and, 1 , 2

Globalization, 1 , 2

gore as play, 1

Gore Obsessed (album), 1

goths, 1 , 2

graphic horror and technical appreciation, 1 , 2

grindcore, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Halford, Rob, 1

Hallucinating Anxiety (album), 1

hard rock, 1

hardcore, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . See also punk

Harris, Mick, 1

Hate Eternal (band), 1

Heartwork (album), 1 , 2

heavy metal: emergence as genre, 1 , 2 , 3 . See also extreme metal; lite metal; New Wave of British Heavy Metal; political critique of metal; thrash metal

Hendrix, Jimi, 1

Herrera, Danny, 1

Hetfield, James, 1

hip hop, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ; lyrics, 1 ; organic intellectuals, 1 ; political critique, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . See also rap

Hoglan, Gene, 1

Homosexuality, 1 , 2

horror: cinematic, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 . See also horror and pleasure; technical appreciation

horror and pleasure, 1 ; introduction, 1 ; metal and horror, 1 ; moral panic and transgression, 1 , 2

hypermasculinity, 1 , 2

inequality. See social inequality

“insider” research, 1

Iron Maiden (band), 1 , 2 , 3

The Joshua Tree (album), 1

jouissance (EDM), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

Judas Priest (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; court case (1990), 1

Kill (album), 1 , 2

Kilmister, Lemmy, 1

Latin America, 1 , 2 , 3

Led Zeppelin (band), 1 , 2 , 3

lite metal, 1 , 2 , 3

live performance, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

local scene, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Lombardo, Dave, 1

Longstreth, John, 1

Lovecraft, H. P., 1

lyrics: death metal, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ; heavy metal, 1 ; hip hop and rap, 1 , 2 ; punk, 1 , 2 , 3 ; thrash metal, 1

marginalization, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ; social, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Marxism, 1 , 2

masculine domination, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

masculinity, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ; hypermasculinity, 1 , 2

Mazurkiewicz, Paul, 1

McCullom, John, 1

McLaren, Malcolm, 1

Medeiros, Matthew, 1

Megadeth (band), 1

Mercury, Freddie, 1

metal. See heavy metal

Metal Blade Records, 1

Metal Church (band), 1

Metallica (band), 1 , 2

Middle East, 1 , 2 , 3

misogyny, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 . See also sexism

moral panic and transgression, 1 , 2

moral standards, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Morbid Angel (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Morbid Visions (album), 1

Morrisound Studios, 1

moshing, 1 , 2

Mötley Crüe (band), 1

Motörhead (band), 1 , 2

Mounier, Flo, 1

murder and mutilation, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

musical pleasure. See horror and pleasure; play and pleasure; reorientation of listening; technical appreciation

Napalm Death (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

Nation of Islam (movement), 1

nationalist movements, 1 ; black, 1 , 2 , 3

Nazism, 1 , 2 ; Anti-Nazi League, 1 . See also fascism

Necronomicon (H.P. Lovecraft), 1

necrophilia, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (album), 1

neo-tribe, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

New Age spiritualism, 1

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), 1 , 2

Nihilism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Noise, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

North Africa, 1 , 2 , 3

Obituary (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

occultism, 1 , 2

Oi! (music genre), 1 , 2

Once Upon the Cross (album), 1

oppression, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17

organic intellectual, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; hip hop, and, 1

Origin (band), 1

Osbourne, Ozzy, 1 , 2 ; court case (1985), 1

Owen, Jack, 1 , 2

Owen, Ken, 1 , 2

Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC), 1 , 2

Perry, Mark, 1

phonologocentrism, 1 , 2 ; play and pleasure, 1 ; gore as play, 1 ; introduction, 1 ; sonic irruptions and disruptions, 1

Poison (band), 1

political criticism: electronic dance music, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ; hip hop, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; limitations of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 . See also political critique of metal; punk; rise of political criticism

political critique of metal, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ; deindustrialization, 1 ; global metal and “whiteness”, 1 , 2 , 3 ; introduction, 1 ; masculine domination, 1 , 2 , 3

popular music studies: “insider” research, 1 ; neo-tribe, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ; post-subculture, 1 , 2 , 3 ; postmodern subculture, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . See also scene; subculture

Possessed (band), 1

post-political pop, 1

post-subculture, 1 , 2 , 3

postmodern subculture, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

poverty, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

powerlessness, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

prostitution, 1 , 2

Public Enemy (rap group), 1 , 2

Punk, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 ; lyrics, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; Nazism, and, 1 , 2 ; political critique, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ; limits of, 1 ; punk scene, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 . See also hardcore; skinheads

Quebec City (protest movement), 1 , 2

Queen (band), 1

Quiet Riot (band), 1

racism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ; anti-racist politics, 1 , 2 , 3

Raimi, Sam, 1

Rainbow (band), 1 , 2

Rap, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ; gangsta rap, 1 , 2 , 3 ; lyrics, 1 , 2 ; political critique, 1 . See also hip hop

Ratt (band), 1

rave culture, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . See also electronic dance music (EDM)

Reagan administration (US), 1 , 2

reality rap. See gangsta rap

Reclaim the Streets (protest movement), 1 , 2 , 3

Reek of Putrefaction (album), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

reflexive anti-reflexivity, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

Reign in Blood (album), 1

Reinert, Sean, 1

Religious Right, 1

reorientation of listening, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ; introduction, 1 ; noise, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ; sonic irruptions and disruptions, 1 ; voices of death, 1

Rhoads, Randy, 1

right wing politics, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

riot grrrl (movement), 1

rise of political criticism, 1 ; “insider” research, 1 ; introduction, 1 ; post-subculture, 1 , 2 , 3 ; See also subculture

Roadrunner Records, 1

Rock Against Racism (movement), 1

Roddy, Derek, 1

Rolling Stones (band), 1

Roth, David Lee, 1

Rusay, Bob, 1

Rush (band), 1

S11 (protest movement), 1

Sadomasochism, 1

Sandoval, Pete, 1

Satanic metal/Satanism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 . See also black metal

Scabies, Rat, 1

scene, 1 , 2 , 3 ; local, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ; translocal, 1 ; virtual, 1 , 2 . See also rave culture

Schuldiner, Chuck, 1

Scott, Bon, 1

Scream Bloody Gore (album), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Scum (album), 1 , 2 , 3

Sepultura (band), 1 , 2

Sesame Street (TV series), 1

sex, drugs, and rock and roll, 1 , 2 , 3

Sex Pistols (band), 1 , 2 , 3

Sexism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . See also misogyny

sexual objectification of women, 1 , 2

sexuality, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Sherwood, Adrian, 1

Sioux, Siouxsie, 1

Skinflick (DVD), 1

skinheads, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Skinless (band), 1

slamdancing, 1

Slayer (band), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Slowly We Rot (album), 1 , 2 , 3

Smith, Mike, 1

Sniffin’ Glue (fanzine), 1

social inequality, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 . See also disenfranchisement

social protest, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18

S.O.D (band), 1

sonic irruptions and disruptions, 1

Speak English or Die (album), 1

Stained Class (album), 1

Steer, Bill, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Stewart, Rod, 1

Stiff Little Fingers (band), 1 , 2

Stranglers (band), 1

subcultural capital, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

subculture, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ; bricolage, 1 ; metal, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ; punk, 1 , 2 , 3

subliminal messages, 1

subversion, 1 , 2 , 3

Suffocation (band), 1

suicide, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Surrealism, 1

Swansong (album), 1 , 2

Symphonies of Sickness (album), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Tardy, John, 1 , 2 , 3

technical appreciation, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ; brutal death metal, 1 ; graphic horror, and, 1 , 2 , 3 ; introduction, 1

Thatcher government (UK), 1 , 2 , 3

thrash metal, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ; lyrics, 1

Tomb of the Mutilated (album), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

torture, 1 , 2 . See also murder and mutilation

translocal scene, 1

tribus, 1 . See also neo-tribe

U2 (band), 1

unemployment, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

US Senate Hearing (1985), 1

Van Halen (band), 1 , 2

Vedic metal, 1

Venom (band), 1 , 2 , 3

Viking metal, 1

Vile (album), 1 , 2 , 3

violence. See aggression; graphic horror and technical appreciation; murder and mutilation; torture

virtual scene, 1 , 2

vocal style, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ; “Cookie Monster,” 1 , 2

voices of death, 1

Walker, Jeff, 1

W.A.S.P. (band), 1

Webster, Alex, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Welcome to Hell (album), 1

West Indian culture, 1

White Power (movement), 1 , 2

White Pride (movement), 1

white supremacism, 1 , 2 , 3

white underclass, 1 , 2 , 3

Whitesnake (band), 1

Williams, Daryl (A-G), 1

The Wretched Spawn (album), 1