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  1. Editorial

    Article • IASPM Journal, May 2025, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

    Dr Eric Smialek

  2. What Pierre-Luc Senécal's Hate.Machine for Growlers Choir Can Teach Us about Extreme Metal Vocals

    Article • May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric Smialek

  3. Recent dissertations in the analysis of metal genres: Foundational texts for the future

    Article • Metal Music Studies, March 2025, Intellect

    Dr Eric Smialek

  4. What happens when 8 producers mix the same song?

    Article • Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie [Journal of the German-Speaking Society of Music Theory], January 2025, Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie (GMTH)

    Prof. Dr. Dr. Jan-Peter Herbst, Dr Eric Smialek

  5. Disability (Mis)representation in Metal Music: Memes, Music Videos, and Lyrics

    Article • April 2024, Intellect

    Dr Eric Smialek

  6. Social Class in Metal: Global Conditions, Subgenre, and Researcher Priorities

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eric Smialek

  7. Contempt-of-Core

    Article • September 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Eric Smialek

  8. Taxonomies du métal

    Article • Volume !, January 2023, OpenEdition

    Dr Eric Smialek

  9. Who Needs to Calm Down? Taylor Swift and Rainbow Capitalism

    Article • Contemporary Music Review, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric Smialek

  10. Getting Medieval: Signifiers of the Middle-Ages in Black Metal Aesthetics

    Article • September 2019, Emerald

    Dr Eric Smialek

  11. Le phallus en forme de Dieu

    Article • Théologiques, July 2019, Consortium Erudit

    Dr Eric Smialek

  12. Unending Eruptions

    Article • September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric Smialek

  13. Dangerous. By Susan Fast . 33 1/3 Series. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.

    Article • Journal of the Society for American Music, May 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Eric Smialek

  14. The Unforgiven

    Article • March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Eric Smialek