Description: Drawing on repeat interviews with metal youth, the book examines why they were first attracted to metal during high school; how they used metal music and identities as coping strategies; and ways that their metal affiliations took on further significance for helping them make important decisions about what to do with their lives post-school.
Review Quotes:
"Few people in the world are better qualified to study the significance of heavy metal to youth than Paula Rowe. The book is crucial for scholars in those areas as well as a great read for metalheads themselves, and their parents."
--Deena Weinstein, Professor of Sociology, DePaul University, USA