(2025) Martin Birch - Catalyst: The Pivotal Role of Deep Purple's Sound Engineer on the Classic Mk. 2 Albums. In: Brown, Andy R. (Ed.): Who Do We Think They Are? : Deep Purple and Metal Studies. London: Equinox Publishing (forthcoming).
(2025) Heaviness: An Introduction to Metal's Prime Musical Quality. In: Heesch, Florian & Höpflinger, Anna-Katharina (Eds.). Metal Studies: The Loudest Handbook. Freiburg: Rombach Wissenschaft (forthcoming).
(2025) (with Mark Mynett) Contemporary Approaches to Metal Music Mixing and Production: Heavy Metal, Death Metal, and Metalcore. In: Burns, Lori & Scotto, Ciro (Eds): The Routledge Handbook of Metal Music Composition. London: Routledge, pp. 469–481. doi.org/10.4324/9781003354451-34
(2025) Songwriting-Camps: Kollaborative Songwriting-Praxis zwischen Songwriting-Tradition und musikindustrieller Transformation. In: Pfleiderer, Martin; Jost, Christofer; Just, Steffen & Wernicke, Carsten (Eds.). Musik in der spätmodernen Gesellschaft. Analysen, Positionen, Perspektiven. Muenster: Waxmann, pp. 191–212.
(2025) (with Jan Nepomucen Pietrzak) Collaboration in an Online Environment: Creativity in Popular Music Production in Times of Covid-19. In: Ahlers, Michael; Herbst, Jan-Peter & Holtsträter, Knut (Eds): Popular Music Songwriting as Cultural, Creative, and Economic Practice. Muenster: Waxmann, pp. 111–136.
(2025) (with Michael Ahlers and Knut Holtsträter) Preface. In: Ahlers, Michael; Herbst, Jan-Peter & Holtsträter, Knut (Eds): Popular Music Songwriting as Cultural, Creative, and Economic Practice. Muenster: Waxmann, pp. 9–12.
(2024) (with Steve Waksman) Introduction to the Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In: Herbst, Jan-Peter & Steve Waksman (Eds.): The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–13. doi.org/10.1017/9781009224420.001
(2024) (with Alexander Vallejo) Thumping, Glitch, and Butterfly Tapping: Innovations in Guitar Technique in the New Millennium. In: Herbst, Jan-Peter & Waksman, Steve (Eds): The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 165–188. doi.org/10.1017/9781009224420.010
(2024) (with Michael Ahlers) Songwriting Camps: Geschichte, Theorien und Forschungsansätze zur Fließband-Produktion von populärer Musik. In: von Appen, Ralf; Chaker, Sarah; Huber, Michael & Prieske, Sean (Eds.): Parallelgesellschaften in Populärer Musik: Abgrenzungen, Annäherungen, Perspektiven. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 315–342. (download here)
(2024) (with Eric Smialek & Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg) Towards an Acoustic-Semantic Space of Extreme Metal Vocal Styles. Proceedings of the German Society for Acoustics' Annual Conference for Acoustics, Leibniz University of Hanover (GER), 18-21 March 2024, pp. 979–982. (download here)
(2023) Introduction to the Cambridge Companion to Metal Music. In: Herbst, Jan-Peter (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–11. doi.org/10.1017/9781108991162
(2023) (with Mark Mynett) Mapping the Origins of Heaviness between 1970-1995: A Historical Overview of Metal Music Production. In: Herbst, Jan-Peter (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 29–42. doi.org/10.1017/9781108991162
(2023) 'It Just Is My Inner Refusal': Innovation and Conservatism in Guitar Amplification Technology. In: Moore, Austin & Bromham, Gary (Eds.). Distortion in Music Production. London: Routledge, pp. 174–184. doi.org/10.4324/9780429356841
(2022) Infrastructure of the German Music Business. In: Schütte, Uwe (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 59–73. doi.org/10.1017/9781009036535.005
(2022) (with Lea Espinoza Garrado et al.) Transformations of the National: Rammstein's "Deutschland" as a Provocation of German History. In: Jacke, Christoph; Flath, Beate & Troike, Manuel (Eds.): Transformational POP: Transitions, Breaks, and Crises in Popular Music (Studies), pp. 179–204. (open access)
(2020) Views of German Producers on 'Teutonic' Metal: Production Approaches and Generational Effects. In: Appen, Ralf von & Hindrichs, Thorsten (Eds.): One Nation Under a Groove. 'Nation' als Kategorie populärer Musik. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 183–206. (download here)
(2020) German Metal Attack: Power Metal in and from Germany. In: Seibt, Oliver; Ringsmut, Martin & Wickström, Davil-Emil (Eds.): Made in Germany (Global Popular Music series). London: Routledge, pp. 81–89. doi.org/10.4324/9781351200790-10
(2019) Moonlight Shadows: "Licht und Schatten" in Pink Floyds The Dark Side Of The Moon. [Light and Shadow in Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon]. In: Kathke, Petra (Ed): Vom Schatten aus. Denk- und Handlungsräume in Kunst und Kunstpädagogik. Hannover: fabricio, pp. 130–150. (download here)
(2017) Virtuoses Sologitarrenspiel im Rock und Metal: Zum Einfluss von Verzerrung auf das "Shredding" [Virtuoso Solo Guitar in Rock and Metal Music: About the Influence of Distortion on "Shredding"]. In: Phleps, Thomas Ed.: Schneller, höher, lauter. Virtuosität in populären Musiken (Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, Bd. 43), pp. 131–152. doi.org/10.14361/9783839435922-009 (open access)
(2017) Influence of Distortion on Guitar Chord Structures: Acoustic Effects and Perceptual Correlates. In: Auhagen, Wolfgang; Bullerjahn, Claudia & Louven, Christoph Eds.: Musikpsychologie, vol. 27: Akustik und musikalische Hörwahrnehmung. Göttingen: Hogrefe, pp. 26–47. dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2805 (open access)
(2017) "Gear Acquisition Syndrome": A Study of Electric Guitar Players. In: Merrill, Julia Ed.: Popular Music Studies Today. Series Systematische Musikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 139–148. (download here)
(2017) Resonanz [Resonance]. In: Blohm, Manfred; Brenne, Andreas & Hornäk, Sara Eds. Inklusionsaspekte in den künstlerischen Fächern und der ästhetischen Bildung. Hannover: Fabrico Verlag, pp. 217–222.
(2015) "What's that Sound?" Sound als didaktische Herausforderung der Populären Musik [Sound as an Educational Challenge of Popular Music]. In: Ahlers, Michael (Ed.): Popmusik-Vermittlung. Zwischen Schule, Universität und Beruf (Theorie und Praxis der Musikvermittlung, vol. 14). Münster: LIT, pp. 133–152. (download here)
