Heavy Metal and Disability

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 neurodivers