As each successive generation of musicians pushes the boundaries of gender and its accompanying expectations, how has metal music remained so strongly masculine-coded? This project investigates the current circumstances of American masculinities, their diversity, and their relationships with this type of music.

As frustrations with the American social paradigm and resulting protests sweep the nation, advocates find themselves asking: how can information that denounces American hierarchy be distributed without being suppressed or misrepresented by its beneficiaries? With her seminal album, Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides, Scottish music producer SOPHIE gave a compelling answer by carrying on a centuries-old tradition of subversion: parody.