Full playlist of recorded presentations also available on YouTube.

Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, “To Hades & Back: Reflection on Reception of Religious Symbols in Metal”

Markus Kutschka, “Ancient Egypt and Extreme Metal”

Ceren Kuşdemir Özbilek, “Anatolian Culture and Spirituality in the Music of Pentagram (Mezarkabul)”

María de la Luz Núñez, “Sexo-género, evidencia histórica y metal andino peruano”

Marina Díaz Bourgeal, “The philosopher adept of Sophrosine: Hipatia de Alejandría en el heavy metal”

Carolyn Willekes & Clara Wanning: “Representations of Equines in Metal Album Art”

Ben Gould, “Disability as Super-Ability: Blindness & Divine Judgment in Metal Depictions of Samson”

Ingrid Cristini Kroich Frandji, “Historical Consciousness & the Reception of Antiquity in Metal”

Kris Fletcher: “The Use of Ancient History and Myth as a Defining Feature of Core Metal Subgenres”

Steven Gonzalez, “Metal, Myth, and Virtuosity”

Eden Kupermintz “Strange Cousins From the West: Clutch & the (Re)Construction of American Mythology”

Nathaniel Katz, “Carthage in Metal Music”

Alexandra Sills & Christina Hotalen, “Spartacus in Metal”

Ralph Moore, “Eluveitie’s Counter-Readings of Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico”

Franconi, Acquavella-Rauch, & Bosselmann-Ruickbie, “Visions of Heavy Metal in School Curricula”

Tobia De Siati, “De Ferro Italico: Uncovering the Italic Pagan Past in the Music of Draugr”

Miroslav Vrzal, “Pagan Warriors in Czech Pagan Black and Folk Metal”

Stephen W. Silliman, “Representations of Indigenous and Colonial Heritage in Metal”

Fulya Çelikel Soğancı, “Constructing Byzantineness within Metal”

Federico Landini, “Bardomagno, Feudalesimo e Libertà & Medievalism in Italian Folk Rock”

David Burke, “Heavy Metal Gimmickry with Warrior Pope”

Brian Egede-Pedersen, “Feuerschwanz, the Medieval, and a Shift in Gender Roles”