(en) Andrew L. Cope, Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music, Aldershot, Ashgate, , 172p. (ISBN978-0-7546-6881-7, lire en ligne).
Robert Walser, Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, New York, NY, Wesleyan University Press, , 222p. (ISBN0-8195-6260-2, lire en ligne).
(en) Ian Peddie (éditeur: Ian Peddie, ed), The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest, Aldershot, Ashgate, , 228p. (ISBN0-7546-5114-2, lire en ligne), «The bleak country: the Black Country and the rhetoric of escape».