This episode’s guest is Charlotte Doesburg who is a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at University College London where she also completed her PhD in 2022. Her doctoral thesis analysed the adaptation of Baltic-Finnish folk poetry and the epic, the Kalevala, in metal music from Finland and connections to national identity in lyrics. She has previously published on the influence of the Kalevala in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and was co-editor of the volume titled Multilingual Metal: Sociocultural, Linguistic and Literary Perspectives on Heavy Metal published by Emerald in 2020.