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What are your perceptions about heavy metal culture? Is it tolerant of diversity or a force for discrimination?
In a first-person essay, Edward Banchs — an author, independent researcher and heavy metal guitarist based in Verona — explores the places the genre has taken him and how the scene has sometimes been stereotyped as hostile, but for him, has proved welcoming ([link removed]) .
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