The relationship between metal and disability is distinctive. Persisting across metal's sub-genres is a preoccupation with exploring and questioning the boundary that divides the body that has agency from the body that has none. This boundary is one that is familiar to those for whom the agency of the body is an everyday matter of survival.

Metal's preoccupation with unleashing and controlling sensorial overload acts both as an analogue of neurodiversity and as a space in which those who are neurodivergent find ways to understand and leverage their sensory capacities. Metal offers potent resources for the self-understanding of people with disabilities. It does not necessarily mean that this potential is always explored or that metal scenes are hospitable to those with disabilities. This collection is disability-positive, validating people with disabilities as different but not damaged.

While metal scholars who contribute to this collection see metal as a space of possibility, in which dis/ability and other intersectional identities can be validated and understood, the collection does not imply that the possibilities that metal affords are always actualised. This collection situates itself in a wider struggle to open up metal, challenging its power structures; a struggle in which metal studies has played a significant part.

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List of Figures
Introduction
1. ‘United We Never Shall Fall’: Metal and Disability
2. Resonant Forms: Autistic Hearing and Heavy Metal Aesthetics
3. Fools Gather 'Round to Watch Me Bleed: Disability, Isolation, and Participation in Metal's Communities of Aesthetic Practice
4. Disabled Drone: Trans-Feminist Noisecraft
5. The Psychology of Metal Music, Culture, and Dis/ability
6. Neurodiversity and Heavy Metal Music
7. Dis-ruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Disability in Media
8. Stimming in the Pit: How Autistic Heavy Metal Fans Have Remained Unseen
9. The Bone Ballet: An Examination in the Intersectionality of Metal, Ballet, and Disability
10. Dis/Abling Narratives of Indigenous Bodies through Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America
11. Goth Subculture, Neurodivergence, and the Dark Power of Changeling Narratives
Notes on Contributors
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