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Recorded Presentations
Evan Schultheis – “The Reception and Presentation of Classical Themes in Metalcore”
Anna-Katharina Höflinger – “Collect the Blood of Kingu: Mesopotamian Myths in Metal”
Jacqueline Jung – “The Hu: Metal, Medievalism, and the Mongols”
Varas-Díaz/Nevárez Araújo: “Modern Tensions & Premodern Longings in Latin American Decolonial Metal”
Alex Gendler – “Aryan Aztlán: The Bizarre World of Aztec Nazi Black Metal”
Marisol Pérez-Pelayo – “Spectral Qualities of Sound: Prehispanic Resonances in the Metal of Cemican”
Leire Olabarria – “Reimagining Monumental Architectures of Ancient Egypt in Metal’s Visual Culture”
Lauro Meller – “Iron Maiden and the Samurai Culture: From ‘Maiden Japan’ to ‘Senjutsu'”
Peter Miller – “Satan, Savior, Muse, Messiah: Prometheus’ Many Afterlives in Metal Music”
Cristian Criste – “The Rivers of the Greek Underworld in Metal”
Marios Koutsoukos- “Headbanging to History: Disseminating Premodernity through Extreme Metal Genres”
Pittà & Ciancio – “Roman History and Myth as a Source for Heavy Metal: The Case Study of Stormlord”
Christina Hotalen – “Imperial Whore, Seductress, Villain: Messalina in Heavy Metal Music”
Gillespie & Moffat – “Feminist Anthems and Iron Age Queens: Heavy Metal’s Obsession with Boudica”
“Open the gates, it’s Belisarius!” Judicator’s Let There Be Nothing & Byzantine Studies
Giordano Calvi – “The Reinvention of the Luso-Pagan Past in the Music of Moonspell”
Gregory R. Darwin – “‘Sing the dark song of Érenn to me’: Irish Saga and Metal Music”
Sean Munger – “Heavy Metal Holy Land: Premodernity as a Place at the Wacken Open Air Metal Festival”
Brian Egede-Pedersen – “‘Templars, Fight or Fall!’: Remembering the Knights Templar in Power Metal”
Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie – “The Perception of Constantinople in Heavy Metal“
Akademic Apokalypse – “The Varangian Dream” (World’s First Historically Accurate Viking Metal Song)