"The first and last words in heavy reading."
With hundreds of candid, live, and studio shots, Lew and Oimoen celebrate the unique wild-eyed spirit and atmosphere of the historic S.F. Bay Area heavy metal scene. “Before they played the Bay Area, Slayer wore makeup onstage—after that first Bay Area show they never wore makeup again. This book will show people why.”
Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Jon Kristiansen’s Slayer Mag quickly became a gospel for the fledgling extreme metal underground, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and a relentless and sick sense of humor. As black metal rose to prominence in Norway in the 1990s, Slayer Mag remained the final word on those dark moods and motivations.
From the blazing stovetop of Montreal’s Annick Giroux comes an inspired international heavy metal cookbook. Appetizer, meat, seafood, vegetarian, dessert, and drink recipes from members of Thin Lizzy, Mayhem, Anthrax, Kreator, Sepultura, Destruction, Obituary, Accept, Doro, Gwar, Toxic Holocaust, Saint Vitus, Amebix, Uriah Heep, Budgie—100+ bands from over 30 countries!
“Hellhammer arose in early 1982 from the rural outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland, disinterred from the remnants of an embryonic and completely haphazard post-high school four-piece band… Hellhammer changed our lives forever. It has profoundly affected anything we have ever done, it has made us who we are, in spite of the fact that the band only existed for a very brief two years.”
Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyzes the heady side of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly ambitious musical subculture. Fighting a tide of tradition and conservatism, progressive metal has proven to be one of the most viable, malleable forms in all of modern music; here its preeminent scholar tells the tale.
The Finnish bestseller by Mape Ollila has been revised and corrected for U.S. publication. Hailing from the tiny hamlet of Kitee, Finland (pop. 10,000) Nightwish has captivated the world’s imagination with magical million-selling releases like Once, Century Child, and Wishmaster. Their saga is a heavy metal fable as dramatic and tumultuous as their epic symphonic music. [...]
The ultimate blow-by-blow account of Sweden’s legendary death metal underground, based on exclusive interviews with members of Nihilist/ Entombed, In Flames, At the Gates, Dismember, Grave, Hypocrisy, Opeth, Unleashed, Marduk, Morbid, Mob 47, Deranged, Edge of Sanity, Merciless, Therion, Liers in Wait, Carnage, Carcass, Tiamat/Treblinka, Afflicted, Repugnant, and the Haunted. [...]
“Mudrian ha creado algo especial aquí. Esta es una lectura obligada para cualquiera que desee un libro exhaustivo del tipo ‘quien-hizo-qué-y-cuándo’. Pulgares arriba”. —Philip Anselmo, Pantera/Down
“The first book to chart the vector of not just metal’s origins, but the myriad mutations through which it continues to infect the planet. Your children will not be spared.”—LA Weekly, Best of 2003
Film, Hard Rock, Metal, Upcoming
Lights… Camera… Thrashin’! As brash, irreverent and visceral as both the music and the movies themselves, Heavy Metal Movies is the ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience.