1. Introduction: in the shadow of Beat city?.
2. City of extreme metal? Characterizing Liverpool and Merseyside’s relationship with metal.
3. Venues and urban change.
4. ‘Support your scene’: metal scenes, solidarity and the threat of decline.
5. Promoting metal on Merseyside.
6. Mediating metal on Merseyside.
7. Performing Metal on Merseyside.
8. Conclusion: standing in diminishing shadows.