Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge

“This fascinating book… provides real insights into the margins of our culture.” ―Times Higher Education Supplement

“Sharp, engaging, and staggeringly comprehensive. Extreme Metal is a must-read for metal fans and anyone interested in the study of popular music and subcultural politics in a globalizing age.” ―Sam Dunn, Co-Director, Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey

“Although its a thorough work of sociological research, looking at how scenes work differently in different countries, as well as what unites them, delving into the close-knit interactions and often isolationist perspectives that accommodate each other so uniquely and much more, anyone involved in the metal scene can recognise their own relationship with extreme metal in the book, as well as understand the bigger picture.” ―Neuro/Vision Extra: Extreme Metal

“As the first book-length academic study of extreme metal music and culture, Kahn-Harris’s Extreme Metal is an important – and overdue – contribution to scholarship in this field.” ―Perfect Beat

Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris is an independent scholar, an associate lecturer at the Open University, an associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College and a founder of the Centre for New Jewish Thought. His website is www.kahn-harris.org.

Keith Kahn-Harris is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and the convenor of New Jewish Thought (www.newjewishthought.org). His website is www.kahn-harris.org