UC Riverside Department of Music presents:

Jonathan Keplinger: “Plumbing the Depths: Funeral Doom and its Place in Extreme Metal”

Metal enthusiast and writer Jonathan Keplinger delves into the depths of extreme metal on a mission to investigate one of its darkest abysses: funeral doom. Join us as we journey to its birthplace--early-'90s Finland--and follow the spread of its eldritch tendrils through the decades. Audio examples will be plentiful!

BIO

Jonathan Keplinger is staff pianist for the music department at UC Riverside and a devotee of all things extreme metal. While his career as a professional musician is in collaborative piano--particularly classical music, opera, choral music, and musical theater--his extracurricular activities include listening to and analyzing copious amounts of death metal, as well as writing numerous metal-related articles and reviews of metal albums.

Part of the 2025-2026 Florence Bayz Music Series

The Florence Bayz Music Series offers online concerts, lectures, and presentations of academic research by Department of Music faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and international guest artists and scholars.

Dr. Amy Skjerseth (she/her), Assistant Professor of Popular Music, Coordinator

Events are free and open to the public.

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