Acknowledgements List of Figures Foreword Henkka Seppala, M.A. Introduction Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Dr. Jerome Stueart, Chapter 1: From The Ashes of the Fallen Empire: Heavy Metal and Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa Edward Banchs, MA Chapter 2: Polar Fate : Mapping Metal at the Southern Edge of the World Dr. Catherine Hoad Chapter 3: The Enemy Within: Conceptualizing Turkish Metalheads as the Ideological ''Other'' Dr. Pierre Hecter and Douglas Mattsson, M.

A. Chapter 4: ''Métal noir épique patriotique'': Analysis of historical, sociological and cultural discourses uniting metal noir québécois and Québec society. Mei-Ra St. Laurent, PhD Chapter 5: Living Sonic Knowledge in South-Eastern Austria: The Sound History of the Metal Scene in Graz and Styria, c. 1980 to the Present Dr. Peter Pichler Chapter 6: Heavy Metal Scene in Osaka: Localness Now and Then Dr. Kei Saito Chapter 7: Heart of Sadness: Fieldwork in the Copenhagen Black Metal Undergrounds Dr. Tore'' Tvarno Lind Chapter 8: "Dit is Berlin":[1] Local metal scene building and transformation in Berlin, Germany Dr.

Wolf-Georg Zaddach Chapter 9: Old and New: Cross-Generational Community in the Dayton Metal Scene Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Jacob Hale, M.A. Chapter 10: La Belle Endormie Awakened by Hellfest Open Air?: A Study of the Nantes Heavy Metal Music Scene Dr. Gerome Guibert and Dr. Sophie Turbe'' Chapter 11: Heavy Metal in Estonia: Cohesions and Divisions, Past and Present Dr. Toni-Matti Karjalainen Chapter 12 : From the Sound of the Lathes to the Noise of the Amplifiers: The Heavy Metal And the Music Scene in the ABC Region of Brazil (1980-1990) Rui Luiz Ferreira Granado, M.

A. and Dr. Heloisa de Aaujo Duarte Valente Chapter 13 : ''This Is the City of Hate'': Surveying the Hull Metal/Hardcore Scene Dr. Lewis Kennedy.