
Death Metal
T. Coles(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Published on 17. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-5013-8101-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-8101-0 (9781501381010)
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Person
T Coles is a writer and music journalist from Somerset, UK. They have worked as a contributing writer for the print magazines Terrorizer, Zero Tolerance and Discovered and websites The Quietus and Cvlt Nation. They play drums for Sail.
Content
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
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