Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University. Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico.

A watershed work on metal, protest, and cultural identity of the Western hemisphere sector of the Global South . . . a must read for heavy metal devotees, scholars, and researchers.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionA Synesthetic ExperiencePablo TrangoneSinger – Arraigo (Argentina)PART ONE: SEEINGChapter 1Seeing Metal Music: Notes Regarding an Ontological ActPART TWO: REVEALINGChapter 2Documentary Film and Metal Music ElsewhereChapter 3Caribbean Metal and Colonial Truth-TellingChapter 4Metal Shirts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Frayed, Faded, Weathered, AlivePART THREE: INVERTINGChapter 5Metal Music / Indigenous BodiesChapter 6¡Al Machete!: Images of Resistance in Caribbean Metal MusicChapter 7:Humor and the Disruptive Hybridization of Visual Conventions in Our Metal MusicPART FOUR: APPEARINGChapter 8Metal Activism in Latin America and the CaribbeanChapter 9An Invitation to an Ethics of AffrontBibliographyAbout the Authors