List of Figures vii About the Editor ix...

List of Figures	vii
About the Editor	ix
About the Contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Critical Introduction: What is ‘Australian’ about Australian Heavy Metal? Catherine Hoad	1
Part I: Australian Metal Identities: Masculine Genealogies and Trajectories
Chapter 1 Heavy Metal Kids: A Historiographical Exploration of Australian Proto-Heavy Metal in the 1960s–1970s Paul ‘Nazz’ Oldham	19
Chapter 2 ‘A Blaze in the Northern Suburbs’: Australian Extreme Metal’s Larrikinish Lineage Sam Vallen	37
Chapter 3 ‘We’re Just Normal Dudes’: Hegemonic Masculinity, Australian Identity, and Parkway Drive Samuel Whiting, Paige Klimentou and Ian Rogers	55
Part II: Australian Metal Scenes in the East and West
Chapter 4 ‘ I Think Sydney’s Pretty Shit’: Melbourne Grindcore Fans and their Others Rosemary Overell	71
Chapter 5 Frontierswomen and the Perth Scene: Female Metal Musicians on the ‘Western Front’ and the Construction of the Gothic Sublime Laura Glitsos	91
Part III: Cultures of Resistance in Australian Metal
Chapter 6 Creeping Sharia: An Extreme Response to Islamophobia Can Yalcinkaya and Safdar Ahmed	111
Chapter 7 ‘This is the Funeral of the Earth’: The ‘Dead-end’ Environmental Discourses of Australian Ecometal Ian Collinson	129
Afterword Being Metal, Being Australian? Reflections and an Afterword Karl Spracklen	145
Appendix Seminal Australian Metal Albums: A List by the Contributors	149
Index	151

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