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.
