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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
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
| Published | Nov 17 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 160 |
| ISBN | 9781501381010 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 8 x 5 inches |
| Series | Genre: A 33 1/3 Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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