Women and Femme Voices in Metal Music, Culture, and Scholarship

Jasmine Hazel Shadrack is an adjunct professor at the Don Wright Faculty of Music Research and Composition, Western University, Canada and a Lecturer in Music at MK College, UK. Her monograph Black Metal, Trauma, Subjectivity, and Sound: Screaming the Abyss was published in 2021.Francesca Stevens is an operatic soprano, metal musician, and Lecturer in Music at The Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, Falmouth University, UK. She specialises in critical feminist musicology primarily within the field of metal music studies.

• Foreword by Sarah Kitteringham, Foreword by Kat Shevil Gillham, Introduction by Jasmine Hazel Shadrack and Francesca Stevens. Part 1: The White Boys Club: HIStories, Legacies, and Heritage includes Women's Rescription in Metal's Past, Present, and Future: (Re)writing Metal Canons and Histories by Francesca Stevens, Alien Sounds Versus Endemic Sounds: Women's Presence in Metal Bands by Hale Fulya Çelikel Soğanci, Women and Live Music: 'Five Quid in or Show Us Your Tits' by Rosemary Lucy Hill, Not all Bodies are Free to Express Themselves: A Brief Study of Growling from a Material, Measurable, and 'Metal' Symbolic Perspective by María de la Luz Núñez, Calm Like a Bomb: Latin American Female Metalheads on Patriarchal Bias and the Potential to Create Safe Spaces by Marisol Pérez Pelayo, Powerful and Fucking Furious: Trauma, Women, and Metal by Kate Quinn, Angela Glaves, and Samantha Barton, Slow and Accelerating Violence at the Edge of Apocalypse: Black Metal's Dark Ecosophy as Strategy of Resistance Against Climate and Social Breakdown by D Ferrett. Part 2: The Age of Men is Over: HERstories, Reclamation, and the Future includes Women on the Margins: A Discussion by Women in Heavy Metal Studies: Amber Clifford-Napoleone, Rosemary Lucy Hill, Laina Dawes, and Jasmine Hazel Shadrack by Amber Clifford-Napoleone, 'Where Nightshade Black and Mandrake Grow': Dōloŭr as Black Metal Witchcraft, Our Strategy of Resistance by Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, Heathen Pilgrimages: Women and Nonbinary People Finding Belonging within Black Metal and Neofolk by Kayley Margarite Whalen, Everything Burns: Lingua Ignota and the Counter-Actualisation of Repetition by Lexi Turner, We Deserve to Have a Space Here: Reclaiming Extreme Metal as a Space to Elevate Feminist Voices by Melissa Straker, Sister Outsider, Sister Love: Embodied Metal Practices of Reconnection, Reconciliation, and Resonation for Decolonising the Body by Susana González-Martínez, Star Attraction in Contemporary Metal Music: Interpreting the Vocal and Physical Work of Alissa White-Gluz by Lori A. Burns.