Heavy Metal and Disability

Jasmine Hazel Shadrack is an adjunct professor at the Don Wright School of Music Composition and Research, at Western University, Canada. She is also a musician, composer, disability advocate and an extreme metal performer.Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer, based in London. He has been writing about metal since the 1990s, is the author of 'Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge' and co-editor of a number of collections.

• Introduction‘United We Never Shall Fall’: Metal and DisabilityEsther Clinton and Jeremy WallachResonant Forms: Autistic Hearing and Heavy Metal AestheticsJon W. FessendenFools Gather ‘Round to Watch Me Bleed: Disability, Isolation, and Participation in Metal’s Communities of Aesthetic PracticeRebecca Jiggens and Jasmine Hazel ShadrackDisabled Drone: Trans-Feminist NoisecraftSteff JuniperThe Psychology of Metal Music, Culture, and Dis/AbilityKyle J. MessickNeurodiversity and Heavy Metal MusicKate Quinn and Samantha BartonDis-ruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Disability in MediaEric Smialek and Samantha BasslerStimming in the Pit: How Autistic Heavy Metal Fans Have Remained UnseenVik J. SquiresThe Bone Ballet: An Examination in the Intersectionality of Metal, Ballet, and DisabilityDawn StatesDis/Abling Narratives of Indigenous Bodies through Decolonial Metal Music in Latin AmericaNelson Varas Díaz and Daniel Nevárez AraújoGoth Subculture, Neurodivergence, and the Dark Power of Changeling NarrativesKayley WhalenNotes on Contributors