24 - What Has Latin American Metal Music Ever Done for Us?

Summary

This chapter examines one of the endeavours Latin American music has predominantly engaged in, namely decoloniality, and uses this as a bedrock to examine what we consider to be a pertinent question: What has Latin American metal ever done for the international metal scene? We believe that the answer to this question lies at the juncture of and brings forth a call for ethics in metal music. We propose that decolonial metal music in Latin America incarnates three principles linked to what we term an ethics of affront: (1) acknowledging the humanity of those oppressed by coloniality, (2) acknowledging the reality of the sociopolitical context and (3) fostering activist action as a task for metal music.