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Death Metal

33 1/3 Genre Series


  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • by T. Coles
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. This book explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its aims and intentions, its crossovers to the mainstream, successes and failures.

ISBN 9781501381010 | EN | PB
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Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 9781501381010
Author(s) T. Coles
Publication date November 2022
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 196 x 127 mm
Pages 208
Language(s) English ed.
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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.