Abstract
This chapter investigates the ways in which the mutually supportive operations of masculinity and whiteness have shored up Australian identity within the spaces and histories of Australia's extreme (thrash, black and death) metal scenes. In this chapter, I interrogate the expression of whiteness within exemplar texts and discursive practices of Australian metal, particularly thrash, death and black metal, referred to collectively as ‘extreme metal’. Building on the work of Michael Billig (Banal Nationalism, Sage, 1995), I explore how assertions of white hegemony within an Australian context emerge not through explicit nationalist celebrations, but through the everyday, banal representations of the nation.
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