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Bloomsbury presents Death Metal by T Coles, read by Rob Crossan.

Featuring exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass, and Napalm Death, this is your guide through the history of death metal.


Guitars playing abrasive, discordant riffs, the thunderous double-kick of the drums acting like an accelerated heartbeat, and porcine, guttural vocals pummeling twisted lyrics. Courting controversy from inception to its modern day iteration, death metal presents a number of contradictions: Driven and adventurous musicians compete to make uncomfortable noises; it is crude and far beyond parody and yet consistently popular; and the music is pig-headedly uncommercial despite making a few labels, albeit briefly, wealthy.

This book explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its aims and intentions, its crossovers to the mainstream, successes and failures, and tracks how it developed from the bedrooms of Birmingham and Florida to the near-mainstream, to the murky cult status it enjoys today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1 You Suffer, But Why?
2 Death Rides Out (1980 to 1989)
3 Death Rising (1988-1993)
4 Deathly Peaks (1993-1996)
5 New Frontiers (1996-2013)
6 Death in the Present (2013-2021)
7 Death Wins

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Apr 29 2025
Format Audiobook
Duration 3 hours and 54 minutes
ISBN 9798765149065
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

T Coles

T Coles is a writer and music journalist from Some…

Narrator

Rob Crossan

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