About
I am a music theorist and musicologist interested in the analysis — broadly conceived — of extreme metal music. Issues that arise in analyzing this music, such as extreme loudness, rhythmic complexity and the literal and cultural resonances of screamed vocals, require critical examination of the tools of musical and cultural analysis, and facilitates reflection on how musical analysis deals with those issues across other repertoires. This kind of analytical work depends on engagement with multiple modalities of listening, and insists on the lived listening experience as a gateway to understanding sound. Work Shared in CORE
Dissertations
Other Publications
2019. “‘Shrieking Soldiers…Wiping Clean the Earth’: Hearing Apocalyptic Environmentalism in the Music of Botanist.” in
Popular Music, 38.3.
2018. “‘So Complete in Beautiful Deformity:’ Unexpected Beginnings and Rotated Riffs in Meshuggah’s
obZen.”
Music Theory Online, 24.3.
2015 “Kentucky: Sound, Environment History – Black Metal and Appalachian Coal Culture.” In Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures. Edited by Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Kimi Kärki. Helsinki: Aalto University and Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture. (Available as an e-Book at
http://iipcblog.wordpress.com/publications/)
2014 “MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS.” In Journal of Sonic Studies. No. 7, May 2014.
http://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/84314/87805
2013 “A Finnish Medley: Forging Folk Metal.” Published on Ethnomusicology Review’s Sounding Board – Notes from the Field.
http://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/finnish-medley-forging-folk-metal
