Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you re about to enter the School of Rock! Today s lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school they actually paid $5. 98 for The $5. 98 EP. Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school-they actually paid $5. 98 for The $5. 98 EP. Heroes of the Day: Acknowledgments viii Hit the Lights 1(2) On Through the Never 3(50) Whisper Things Into My Brain: Metallica, Emotion, and Morality 5(11) Robert Fudge This Search Goes On: Christian, Warrior, Buddhist 16(13) William Irwin Alcoholica: When Sweet Amber Becomes the Master of Puppets 29(12) Bart Engelen Through the Mist and the Madness: Metallica's Message of Nonconformity, Individuality, and Truth 41(12) Thomas Nys Existensica: Metallica Meets Existentialism 53(46) The Metal Militia and the Existentialist Club 55(10) J. Jeremy Wisnewski The Struggle Within: Hetfield, Kierkegaard, and the Pursuit of Authenticity 65(9) Philip Lindholm Metallica, Nietzsche, and Marx: The Immorality of Morality 74(11) Peter S. Fosl Metallica's Existential Freedom: From We to I and Back Again 85(14) Rachael Sotos Living and Dying, Laughing and Crying 99(62) To Live is to Die: Metallica and the Meaning of Life 101(16) Scott Calef Madness in the Mirror of Reason: Metallica and Foucault on Insanity and Confinement 117(10) Brian K. Cameron Ride the Lightning: Why Not Execute Killers? 127(8) Thom Brooks Living and Dying as One: Suffering and the Ethics of Euthanasia 135(13) Jason T. Eberl Fade to Black: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral 148(13) Justin Donhauser Kimberly A. Blessing Metaphysica, Epistemologica, Metallica 161(36) Believer, Deceiver: Metallica, Perception, and Reality 163(10) Robert Arp Trapped in Myself: ``One'' and the Mind-Body Problem 173(10) Joanna Corwin Is It Still Metallica? On the Identity of Rock Bands Over Time 183(14) Manuel Bremer Daniel Cohnitz Fans and the Band 197(48) Metallica Drops a Load: What Do Bands and Fans Owe Each Other? 199(11) Mark D. White The Unsocial Sociability of Humans and Metal Gods 210(9) Niall Scott Boys Interrupted: The Drama of Male Bonding in Some Kind of Monster 219(13) Judith Grant Justice for All? Metallica's Argument Against Napster and Internet File Sharing 232(13) Robert A. Delfino Who's Who in the Metal Militia 245(5) The Phantom Lord's Index 250