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Heroes of the Metal Underground : The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands by Alexandros Anesiadis (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFeral House
ISBN-101627311408
ISBN-139781627311403
eBay Product ID (ePID)22057266210
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Book TitleHeroes of the Metal Underground : the Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands
Number of Pages520 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGenres & Styles / Heavy Metal, Reference, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic
AuthorAlexandros Anesiadis
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight37 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
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Table Of ContentContents Foreword Introduction A small piece on the history of independent/private US metal East Coast M.C. Blade Street Child Heathen''s Rage Tantrum The Rods Exxplorer M-16 Hades Murder Suite Blacksmith Siren Alias Stryker Dead Serios Rhed Asphalt Odyssey Aragon Weapon Fantom Warior Alias Mangler Rockkit Asylum Leather Nunn Purgatory Breaker White Boy And The Average Rat Band Chalice Arch Rival Rosie Slammer Ruffkut Deuce Intrüder Titanic Arthur''s Museum Vikron Black Diamond (NY) DarkStarr Strange Flesh Black Virgin Dagger Knightmare Kryst The Conqueror Oblivion Kill Van Kull Damien (NY) Stonehenge X-Caliber Savage Thrust Voyeur Hammers Rule Spectral Incursion Resless MX West Coast Ruffians Cirith Ungol Brocas Helm Gotham Traveler Child Saint Traitor Taist of Iron Soldier (San Francisco) Valor Hammer Head Snow Childz Play Suspicion Emerald Villain Razormaid Air Raid Wombat Shadow (Kennewick, Washington) Shadow (Seattle, Washington) Assassin (San Diego) Elysian The RH Factor Prowler (San Diego) Paladin Hans Naughty Childhood''s End Prophecy (Montana) Diamond Claw Xcursion Victim Sacred Rite Central and rest of US Black Task Medieval Steel Assassin Sinister Angel Halloween Gunner Outrage Centurion Destroyer Dover Trench Slayer Roc Lochner Ashbury Wyzdom Nineteen Winterhawk Ivory Tiger Hammeron Decoy Paris Fury Carnage (South Carolina) Dead Silence Axxe Tyrant''s Reign Xcel Iron Cross Winterkat Mania Nightchild Prowler (Santa Fe, NM) Militia Unleashed Hammer Witch Dungeon Commandment Crowhaven Steel Vengeance Pendulum Rude Awakening Afterword: Never forget the warriors
SynopsisThe only encyclopedic and definitive book on American indie metal! If all you know about metal music was what was heard on commercial radio, then you don't know metal at all. Heroes of the Metal Underground profiles over 1100 American bands from every town and city in the United States who ever released a record. Metal bands exploded during the 1980s. Influenced by the heavy sounds coming out of Britain via Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, young guitar shredders turned the amps up and played harder and faster. American record companies scooped up a few bands and signed them to major label recording deals (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax) but that left hundreds of bands--and their fans--trying to get their songs heard. These intrepid metal bands borrowed a page from punk's DIY handbook and did it themselves. Regional favorites. Hometown heroes. Tour van veterans. Bands who invested their life-savings into recording and pressing their songs onto albums for a shot at immortality on vinyl. "With his previous books, Crossover the Edge and We Can Be theNew Wind , Alexandros Anesiadis has already proven beyond doubt his commitmentto his subject matter when it comes to unearthing long-lost musical gems. Asonic archaeologist on an arcane mission, he does all the digging and gets hishands dirty, so we don't have to. And once again, Heroes of the Metal Underground isno exception, a warm and enthusiastic trawl through the American metalunderground of the Eighties - a deep dive so deep your ears will be bleeding...and not just from the hydrostatic pressure! This one will take you a month toread, but a whole year to digest, such is the colorful smorgasbord of raredelicacies served up for your attention." - Ian Glasper, Silence Is NoReaction: Forty Years of Subhumans (PM Press,2023) and Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 (PM Press, 2014) "Alexandros' in-depth research and clear love and fervor forthis music bleeds all over this book! A reference book to a movement thatchanged music from the underside, through the back door and crashing the gatesto get in. A never taking no for an answer youth movement of music which islike a library full of classics for you to discover! A must have history book!Alexandros has painstakingly amassed a wealth of history and it rings familiarto my memories of my high school band Cro-Mags and the underground DIY bruteforce culture of underground metal and hardcore that made us give our all atour 'Stab at immortality.'" - Parris Mayhew, AGGROS and former member of the Cro-Mags "The metal underground, the tape trading letter writingmangled demo pushing world was similar to the punk underground. And like thatunderground, there is even an underground under the underground! And this iswhere Alexandros come into the picture with his new book." - Brian Walsby, SelfEmpunishment (Pelekinesis, 2020), The definitive encyclopedic book on independent American metal! If all you knew about metal music was what you heard on commercial radio, Then you don't know metal. Heroes of the Metal Underground profiles over one hundred American metal hands from throughout the United States. Metal exploded during the 1980s. American record companies signed a few bands to major label recording deals (Metallica, Slaver, Anthrax), but that left hundreds of bands working to get their songs heard. These intrepid metal hands borrowed a page from punk's DIY handbook and did it themselves. Regional favorites. Hometown heroes. Tour-van veterans. Bands who invested their life savings into recording and pressing their songs onto albums for a shot at immortality on vinyl. Fans loved it. We are here for it. Devil horns up, headhangers, your playlist-and record collection-is about to be blast beat'd into the metalsphere. Alexandros Anesiadis lives in London and Greece. His previous books, Crossover the Edge and We Can Be the New Wind, document punk and hybrid punk-metal bands. Contributor Yannis Skarpelos is a sociologist and professor of Visual Cultural Studies at Panteion University, Athens. He loves all things metal.
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