List of Figures and Tables (xi) | Acknowledgments (xvii) | 1 Introduction: Global Metal Music and Culture and Metal Studies (1) | 2 Reflections on Metal Studies (22) | Part I Metal Musicology: 3 Iron and Steel: Forging Heavy Metal’s Song Structures or the Impact of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest on Metal’s Musical Language (35), 4 ‘It’s Like a Mach Piece, Really’: Critiquing the Neo-C…