Alex Skolnick To Speak At Metal & Cultural Impact Conference

The Metal & Cultural Impact Conference (MACI) will take place November 6th - 8th and is under the umbrella of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS).

Revolver Golden Gods Awards founder and former producer Josh Bernstein will be giving the closing keynote, "Heavy Metal: A Business, A Lifestyle, Past, Present & Future.” Alex Skolnick meanwhile will be giving a panel on "Louder Education," which was a web series originally produced with Metal Injection. Both Alex and Josh will be presenting on Saturday, November 8th.

Other events of interest are a heavy metal "masks" art exhibit and screening of the heavy metal Africa documentary, "March of the Gods." There will be a closing concert (off-campus) of local/regional metal bands during the evening of Saturday, November 8th.

In addition to Alex & Josh, a few speakers of note are Vivek Venkatesh (dubbed Professor Death Metal by Decibel magazine) and Jason Netherton of Misery Index (both presenting on Thursday, November 6th in the "Death Metal/Black Metal" category).

Laina Dawes, author of "What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal," will be presenting on Saturday, November 8th in the "Women in Metal" category. Full details can be found at this location.