Extreme Metal

Extreme Metal
Author: Keith Kahn-Harris
Publisher: Berg
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2007-01-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1845203992

Includes interviews with band members and fans, from countries ranging from the UK and US to Israel and Sweden, this book demonstrates the power and subtlety of an often surprising and misunderstood musical form. It draws on first-hand research to explore the global extreme metal scene.

Extreme Metal Bass: Essential Techniques, Concepts, and Applications for Metal Bassists

Extreme Metal Bass: Essential Techniques, Concepts, and Applications for Metal Bassists
Author: Alex Webster
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 149503187X

(Bass Instruction). As the original bassist for the seminal death metal band Cannibal Corpse, author Alex Webster offers invaluable insight into the realm of metal bass guitar. This exclusive book/audio pack provides detailed, hands-on training, featuring vital bass guitar techniques and concepts. Extreme Metal Bass further demonstrates how these techniques can be applied in real-life situations within the context of a song. No matter what brand of metal you subscribe to from classic metal to modern metal and beyond Extreme Metal Bass will supply the bass skills you crave. Extreme Metal Bass also includes access to enhanced audio with demonstration and play-along tracks of all the examples in the book, plus play-along MIDI drum files for optimum practicing. This book is designed for players who use a standard-tuned five-string bass (low to high: B-E-A-D-G). If you do not have a five-string bass, a four string (tuned B-E-A-D) will work for much of the material presented.

Extreme Metal Drumming

Extreme Metal Drumming
Author: Hannes Grossman
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480361321

(Drum Instruction). "Exteme Metal Drumming" is your guide to an exciting musical genre that features great technicality, fast and complex double-bass patterns, odd time signatures, erratic song structures, and blazing tempos. This logical, step-by-step approach will enable drummers to acquire the diverse skills needed for this style while emphasizing musical applications of the techniques. Includes a foreword by George Kollias and audio examples of the exercises.

Who Invented Heavy Metal?

Who Invented Heavy Metal?
Author: Martin Popoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781912782123

The most detailed, well argued, complete, most lively and readable telling of the early history of heavy metal yet with all the facts and figures one needs. The book provides the very history of heavy metal's origins through events inside the genre but, surprisingly, many events outside of its own reverberations.

Precious Metal

Precious Metal
Author: Albert Mudrian
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2009-07-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786749628

Decibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around. Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most popular feature, the monthly “Hall of Fame” which documents the making of landmark metal albums via candid, hilarious, and fascinating interviews with every participating band member. Decibel's editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian, has selected and expanded the best of these features, creating a definitive collection of stories behind the greatest extreme metal albums of all time.

Music at the Extremes

Music at the Extremes
Author: Scott A. Wilson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476620067

Away from the spotlight of the pop charts and the demands of mainstream audiences, original music is still being played and audiences continue to engage with innovative artists. This collection of fresh essays gathers together critical writing on such genres as Power Electronics, Black Metal, Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial, Hard-Core Punk and Horrorcore. The contributors report from the periphery of the music world, seeking to understand these new genres, how fans connect with artists and how artists engage with their audiences. Diverse music scenes are covered, from small-town New Zealand to Washington, D.C., and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artists discussed include Coil, Laibach, Whitehouse, Insane Clown Posse, Wolves in the Throne Room, Turisas, Tyr, GG Allin and many others.

Extreme Metal II

Extreme Metal II
Author: Joel McIver
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 085712224X

Newly revised and updated, with even more bands detailed and dissected, including the biggest names in Grindcore, Gorecore, Pagan Metal, Viking Metal and Vampire Metal; Extreme Metal is more than just an encyclopaedia. It takes a rare look at an ever-proliferating music scene that will horrify, thrill and shock you. From Abhorrant to Zyklon, from the chart-topping success of Slipknot to the trials and church-burnings of Count Grishnackh and Burzum, no stone is left unturned. Any fan of music just that bit different from the homogenous mass of plastic pop will find something to cherish within these pages.

Snuff

Snuff
Author: Neil Jackson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-01-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1628921137

The phenomenon of so-called 'snuff movies' (films that allegedly document real acts of murder, specifically designed to 'entertain' and sexually arouse the spectator) represents a fascinating socio-cultural paradox. At once unproven, yet accepted by many, as emblematic of the very worst extremes of pornography and horror, moral detractors have argued that the mere idea of snuff constitutes the logical (and terminal) extension of generic forms that are dependent primarily upon the excitement, stimulation and, ultimately, corruption of the senses. Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media brings together scholars from film and media studies to assess the longevity of one of screen media's most enduring cultural myths. Thorough, provocative, and well argued, the contributions to this volume address areas ranging from exploitation movies, the video industry, trends in contemporary horror cinema, pornography and Web 2.0.

KISS

KISS
Author: Kieran James
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2017-08-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0244027420

This book is a collective effort on the authors' part to remember KISS, one of the most important hard-rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s. Arguably KISS was the first major act in rock music history to present rock music as Entertainment Product firstly and music only secondarily. We discuss the original, democratic concept of the Fab Four - Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter - as well as Simmons' and Stanley's subsequent American Dream ideology. We go on to analyse the current version of the band in the light of the original line-up. We find that the KISS fan base is divided with some fans accepting Simmons' current view that the four personas can be utilized by anyone chosen by the band's leadership; a second group which tries to correct the alleged historical injustices committed against Frehley and Criss; and a third group which is cynical about the current version of the band but mostly holds its peace. Includes bonus 68-page Metallica book.

Black Metal Rainbows

Black Metal Rainbows
Author: Daniel Lukes
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1629639230

Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world’s imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder. Today black metal is nothing less than a cultural battleground between those who claim it for nationalist and racist ends, and those who say: Nazi black metal fvck off! Black Metal Rainbows is a radical collection of writers, artists, activists, and visionaries, including Drew Daniel, Kim Kelly, Laina Dawes, Espi Kvlt, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Svein Egil Hatlevik, Eugene S. Robinson, Margaret Killjoy, and many more. Across essays and theory-fictions, artworks and comics, we say out loud: Long live black metal’s trve rainbow! This unique volume envisions black metal as always already open, inclusive, and unlimited: a musical genre whose vital spirit of total antagonism rebels against the forces of political conservatism. Beyond its clichés of grimness, nihilism, reaction, and signature black/white corpse-paint sneer, black metal today is a vibrant and revolutionary paradigm. This book reveals its ludic, carnival worlds animated by spirits of joy and celebration, community and care, queerness and camp, LGBTQI+ identities and antifascist, antiracist, and left-wing politics, not to mention endless aesthetic experimentation and fabulousness. From the crypt to the cloud, Black Metal Rainbows unearths black metal’s sparkling core and illuminates its prismatic spectrum: deep within the black, far beyond grimness, and over a darkly glittering rainbow!