Bøger af Tom Coles

Featuring exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass, and Napalm Death, this is your guide through the history of death metal.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.

Set amid the verdant and primordial wilds of pre-contact era, it is the story of a young man's induction into the mystic and magical world of the Shamanism. Nakosis is the medium of a very ancient and powerful spirit whose beckoning urges him upon a quest of legendary proportions whose unfolding will test the young man beyond his wildest imagining. What he discovers is not the archaic myths of a time and people long forgotten, but the timeless thread of spiritual inter-connectedness that weaves throughout all of creation, inexorably binding all things within the warp and weft of the sacred circle of life.