"30 years Ride the Lightning: This is how our tribute CD sounds". Examining the discursive practice of remembering in the culture world of heavy and extreme metal

This article aims to examine the discursive practices of remembering in the culture world of heavy and extreme metal. The first half of the article discusses the relevance and characteristics of remembering in the culture world, with a special focus on mediums of remembering (magazines, sound carriers, and songs). The second half focuses on a feature about the 30th anniversary of Metallica's LP Ride The Lightning in the German special interest magazine Metal Hammer (February 2014), which consists of an article, a photo-feature and a tribute/cover CD by several contemporary metal bands. The feature and CD will be then analyzed by the previously stated insights as part of a discursive praxis. It will be shown that mediums like magazines and sound carriers are important tools for an active and collective remembering within the culture world in which moreover a form of auditive remembering emerges.