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A-Z of Black Metal
By Garry Sharpe-Young

Throughout the history of Rock no other genre has pushed the boundaries of aural extremity and social rebellion quite like Black Metal. Many of the bands in this book operate way beyond the parameters of the established rock scene carving their own path in the darkest depths of true underground music. For the first time this ultimate authority documents detailed biographies, line ups, and full discographies with track listing of over 2,000 bands. Included are in depth details of the major artist such as Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor Mayhem, Immortal and Marduk as well as every other band, however small, or distant geographically. Each strain of musical brutality is examined in detail including the Black ambient scene, Viking Metal, Grindcore, Noisecore, and even the ultimate irony of Christian Black Metal.

Despite its unceasing growth and increasing legions of fans quite remarkably the phenomenon of Extreme Metal has never been fully documented until now. This along with The Rockdetector A to Z of Death Metal are the first two books in Garry Sharpe-Youngs new extreme metal series. Rockdetector A-Z Extreme Metal series Thousands of bands, hundreds of thousands of dedicated fans, and a truly global reach from a music form that, already a decade old, is thriving and accelerating in growth. From its ancestry of Heavy Metal the myriad of latter day offshoots have prospered to spawn legions of bands globally from the bastions of the U.S.A. and Europe to burgeoning territories such as the Far East, Russia and South America.

These are the bands that deal in the very harshest of music forms, that lyrically go beyond the pail in ever renewed attempts to shock the mainstream. These are the bands that sell ever increasing numbers of records and tour internationally to ever larger audiences yet remain steadfastly out of the public eye. This book is a must for all true metal fans.

No Of Pages: 400 plus
Language: English