Steeped in foreboding mythology, the dark underbelly of heavy metal
ignites debate to this day. 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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