Choosing Death

Description

In 1986, it was unimaginable that death metal and grindcore would ever impact popular culture. Yet this shockingly fast and barbaric amalgam of hardcore punk and heavy metal would define the musical threshold of extremity for years to come. Initially circulated through an underground tape-trading network by scraggly, angry young boys, death metal and grindcore spread faster than a plague of undead zombies as bands rose from every corner of the globe. By 1992, the genre's first legitimate label, Earache Records, had sold well over a million death metal and grindcore albums in the United States alone. Choosing Death, featuring an introduction by John Peel, conquers the lofty task of telling the two-decade-long history of this underground art form through the eyes and ringing ears of the artists, producers, and label owners–past and present–who propelled the movements.

Description

Explores the impact death metal and grindcore have had on popular culture, focusing on how it has defined music of the 1990s.

First Sentence

HOME TO NEARLY ONE MILLION PEOPLE, Birmingham, England is second only in population to the country's capital of London.

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Other Editions

• Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and GrindcorePaperbackFeral House2004-10-01
• Choosing DeatheBookFeral House2009-01-01
• Choosing DeathBazillion Points2016-01-01