Edward Banchs Author

Edward Banchs is a freelance journalist and independent scholar based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His writing about metal in Africa has also appeared in various publications including The Guardian, Metal Hammer, Afropop and Metal Music Studies. He is the author of Heavy Metal Africa: Life, Passion and Heavy Metal in the Forgotten Continent (Word Association, 2016) and Scream for Me Africa: Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa (Intellect, 2022).