Eric Abbey is a professor of English and literature at Oakland Community College in Michigan. He is the author of Garage Rock and Its Roots: Musical Rebels and the Drive for Individuality.
Colin Helb is an assistant professor of communications at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. His research focuses on issues of identity and culture in semiprofessional and localized music scenes.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Food For Thought: On Sid Vicious's Cannibalization of "My Way"
Evan Ware
Chapter 2: Let the Shillelagh Fly: The Dropkick Murphys and Irish-American Hybridity
Sean Ahern
Chapter 3: Am I Evil? The Meaning of Metal Lyrics to its Fans
Mika Elovaara
Chapter 4: By Demons Be Driven? Scanning 'Monstrous' Voices
Marcus Erbe
Chapter 5: Heavy Metal Music in the Caribbean Setting: Politics and Language at the Periphery
Nelson Varas-Diaz, Eliut Rivera-Segarra
Chapter 6: No Fun: Noise Music, Avant-garde Aggression, and Sonic Punishment
Ross Hagan
Chapter 7: The Last Report: Throbbing Gristle and Audio Extremes
Brian Cogan
Chapter 8: Black Metal Soul Music: Stone Vengeance and the Aesthetics of Race in Heavy Metal.
Kevin Fellezs
Chapter 9: "The Time is Right to Set Our Sight on Salvation": The Strange Tale of How the Hare Krishnas Came To Play Hardcore Punk
Colin Helb
Chapter 10: The Cult of Hellmouth: The Success of Contemporary Hardcore
Eric James Abbey
Afterword
Bibliography
Contributors
Index