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'A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and
neophytes' Guardian 'Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky
subculture, illuminating the marginalia as well as the big beasts'
Sunday Times What exactly is heavy metal music? How deep do its
roots go? Long established as an undeniable force in culture, metal
traces its roots back to leather-clad iron men like Black Sabbath
and Judas Priest, who imbued their music with a mysterious and raw
undercurrent of power. Heavy unearths this elusive force, delving
deep into the fertile culture that allowed a distinctive new sound
to flourish and flaying the source material to get to the beating
heart of the music. From the imminent threat of nuclear apocalypse
that gave rise to Metallica's brand of volatile thrash metal to
Bloodbath and Carcass, the death metal bands resurrecting the
horror of medieval art. But there are always more lines to be
drawn. Cradle of Filth and Ulver trade in the transgressive
impulses of gothic literature; Pantera lay bare Nietzsche's
'superman'; getting high leads to the escapist sci-fi dirges of
Sleep and Electric Wizard; while the recovery of long-buried urns
in the seventeenth century holds the key to the drone of Sunn O))).
Dissecting music that resonates with millions, Heavy sees Slipknot
wrestling with the trauma of 9/11, Alice in Chains exposing the
wounds of Vietnam and Iron Maiden conjuring visions of a heroic
England. Powerful, evocative and sometimes sinister, it gives shape
and meaning to the terrible beauty of metal.
'Electric Wizard is heavy, man - we don't sing about love and
flowers.' Jus Oborn In 1993, in the market town of Wimborne Minster
in Dorset, England, the heaviest band in the world was born. Led by
guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, Electric Wizard began as an
untameable power trio. They inhaled the iniquity of their lives and
vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal, synthesising the
forbidding local landscape, biker culture, video-nasties, black
magic rituals and titanic doses of psychedelics. In 1997 they
released their revolutionary second album, Come My Fanatics...
Then, after triumphant and calamitous tours of the USA and
following the release of arguably the heaviest rock album ever
recorded, 2000's Dopethrone, Electric Wizard all but imploded,
destroyed by the very reality they were fighting against. However,
when guitarist Liz Buckingham joined Oborn on guitar for We Live,
they drew a magic circle around themselves in a new line-up that
went on to explore deeper occult horrors on modern doom classic
Witchcult Today onwards. Come My Fanatics is a kaleidoscopic
exploration of the subculture the band has absorbed and, in turn,
created. From seventies exploitation cinema, through the writers of
Weird Tales magazine and a panoply of the marginal and downright
sinister, to the band's own live ceremonial happenings - this is
Electric Wizard's world. We're just dying in it.
Everything about Suffolk is unexpected: A New Suffolk Garland
gathers the best writing, new and old, from people who love this
special county. Everything about Suffolk is unexpected. For
centuries it has been a much-loved place for writers, artists,
musicians, fishermen, farmers ... A New Suffolk Garland gathers the
best writing, new and old, from people who love this special
county: from a twelfth-century monk to Ed Sheeran, through
Gainsborough, Dickens, W.G. Sebald, Ronald Blythe, Robert
MacFarlane, Michael Ondaatje and Penelope Fitzgerald to Roger
Deakin, Melissa Harrison and Helen Macdonald. The anthology
contains specially written new work by Craig Brown, Ralph Fiennes,
India Knight, Olivia Laing, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Robin Robertson
and Lucy Walker. From the art of hedge-laying to the undiscovered
treasures of Suffolk's churches, from the Suffolk punch stable to
Delia Smith's kitchen table, from swimming with otters in the River
Waveney to the golden aurioles of Lakenheath, this new collection
encapsulates all that is best about Suffolk.
'A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and
neophytes' Guardian 'Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky
subculture, illuminating the marginalia as well as the big beasts'
Sunday Times What exactly is heavy metal music? How deep do its
roots go? Long established as an undeniable force in culture, metal
traces its roots back to leather-clad iron men like Black Sabbath
and Judas Priest, who imbued their music with a mysterious and raw
undercurrent of power. Heavy unearths this elusive force, delving
deep into the fertile culture that allowed a distinctive new sound
to flourish and flaying the source material to get to the beating
heart of the music. From the imminent threat of nuclear apocalypse
that gave rise to Metallica's brand of volatile thrash metal to
Bloodbath and Carcass, the death metal bands resurrecting the
horror of medieval art.But there are always more lines to be drawn.
Cradle of Filth and Ulver trade in the transgressive impulses of
gothic literature; Pantera lay bare Nietzsche's 'superman'; getting
high leads to the escapist sci-fi dirges of Sleep and Electric
Wizard; while the recovery of long-buried urns in the seventeenth
century holds the key to the drone of Sunn O))).Dissecting music
that resonates with millions, Heavy sees Slipknot wrestling with
the trauma of 9/11, Alice in Chains exposing the wounds of Vietnam
and Iron Maiden conjuring visions of a heroic England. Powerful,
evocative and sometimes sinister, it gives shape and meaning to the
terrible beauty of metal.
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