Playing with gender in the key of metal - 'Coming out': realizing the possibilities of metal - Metal, masculinity and the queer subject - Living history: the guitar virtuoso and composer Steve Vai - Never say die!: Ozzy Osbourne as a male role model - Placing gender: Alice Cooper's motor city move - Wild side: self-styling and the aesthetics of metal in the music videos of Motley Crue - 'Body Count's in the House': challenging the US working-class metal hero - The monstrous male and myths of masculinity in heavy metal - Female metal singers: a panel discussion with Sabina Classen, Britta Gortz, Angela Gossow and Doro Pesch - What is 'male' about black and death metal music? - 'Girls like metal too!': female reader's engagement with the masculinist culture of the tabloid metal magazine - 'This isn't over 'til I say it's over!': narratives of male frustration in deathcore and beyond - Relocating violence in thrash metal lyrics: the Tori Amos cover of Slayer's Raining blood - Liquid identity: love, heavy metal and the dynamics of gender in anime soundtracks - Heavy, death and doom metal in Brazil - Brutal masculinity in Osaka's extreme-metal scene - Race and gender in globalized and postmodern metal.