{"product_id":"9798216382232","title":"Blood Duster’s Fisting the Dead","description":"\u003ch3\u003e33 1\/3 Oceania\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eBlood Duster’s Fisting the Dead\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRosemary Overell | Jon Stratton | Jon Dale\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic \/ Genres \u0026amp; Styles \/ Heavy Metal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis account of Melbourne porno-grindcore band Blood Duster's 1993 debut album \u003ci\u003eFisting the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e positions the \"pure evil filth\" album as a subcultural object at odds with Australia's cosmopolitanism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith track titles invoking explicit language and lurid imagery, \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e was deliberately offensive. Drawing on interviews with the band, this book considers the subcultural work of causing offense in a sub-genre of extreme metal where offensiveness is a requirement. \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e's liner notes announced “BLOOD DUSTER DOES NOT CONDONE SEXISM” – apparently at odds with the lyrical material and the band's image. Through a consideration of how Blood Duster mobilized humor and exaggeration, Rosemary Overell considers how \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e might work as a critique of the misogyny it loudly declares. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlood Duster's debut also indicates other contradictions – their crusty, subcultural, grindcore status was legendary, but they were signed on an art-noise label (Dr Jim's Records), which proffered them to avant-garde music lovers. Further, in the cultural and political context of Prime Minister Paul Keating's progressive government's push for cosmopolitan middle class creative production - the 1990s Australian iteration of the \"culture wars\" - where does such sordid music fit in? \u003ci\u003eFisting\u003c\/i\u003e, in its vulgarity and contradictions, offers an insight into the subcultural politics of gender, taste and cultural value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRosemary Overell\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film \u0026amp; Communication at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAffective intensities in extreme music scenes\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and has written about grindcore and extreme metal in \u003ci\u003eContinental Thought \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePopular Music History\u003c\/i\u003e. She is on the Editorial Board of \u003ci\u003eMetal Music Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eOverell works at the nexus of feminist cultural studies and psychoanalysis and has also published on film and social media.  \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216382232\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e152\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331922165900,"sku":"9798216382232","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_4f5c5cfc-a00b-48c9-a4ea-a568ee3a9ce8.jpg?v=1783600220","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798216382232","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}