Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Capital Co-Opts the Blast Beat: Death Metal Drumming, Vernacular Theory, and the Labor Lost in the Analog-to-Digital Transition." Music Theory Spectrum, published online 2026.

"Voice-Leading, Register, and Contextualization in Three Major-Third Cycles by Mozart." Indiana Theory Review, vol. 39, Spring 2024. [Accepted Manuscript]

Chapters in Edited Collections

"Imagining Future Extremes on the Record Player: Time Axis Manipulation as a Theory of Extreme Metal Creativity and History." In: The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production, ed. Lori Burns and Ciro Scotto. Routledge, 2025. [Accepted Manuscript]

"Was niemals war: Das Selbstbewusstsein des Norwegischen Black Metal als Konstruktion einer Vergangenheit und Konstitution einer Klanglichkeit." In: Analyzing Black Metal: Transdisziplinäre Annäherungen an ein düsteres Phänomen der Musikkultur, ed. Sarah Chaker, Jakob Schermann, and Nikolaus Urbanek. Bielefeld: transcript, 2018, 109–28. [Accepted Manuscript with Translation]

Reviews and Dictionary Entries

"Review: The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination." IASPM Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 2025.

Twelve dictionary entries. In: Lexikon des Orchesters, ed. Frank Heidlberger, Gesine Schröder, and Christoph Wünsch. Laaber, 2021.

Public Writing and Outreach

"Tired of the same old Christmas songs? So were these countercultural carolers." The Conversation, December 4, 2025.

"Trump Wants to Rock and Roll All Nite at the Kennedy Center." Interviewed in The Gate, December 9, 2025.