“Underground Never Dies!” chronicles the underground metal explosion of the mid-1980s through early 1990s when a decentralized volunteer force created a parallel music industry for music that had no commercial appeal, but a fervent sense of truth and opposition to some aspects of post-modern civilization.
Book introduction done by Erik Danielsson from Watain.
Cover art by Mark Riddick accompanies articles by Ian Christe (Bazillion Points), Chris Reifert (Autopsy) and Alan Moses (Glorious Times).
An interview with Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen (Slayer Mag.) and Ronnie Eide(Morbid mag.) also featured special for this book.
With over 500 pages of interviews, photos, excerpts from period fanzines and artwork, “Underground Never Dies!” addresses the complex interweaving of bands, fans, zines, promoters, artists and labels that fostered the underground metal movement and allowed it to expand with maximum flexibility.
Book video presentation:
Written by GrinderMagazine Editor Andrés Padilla, the book includes fanzines from around the world as well as an extensive selection of underground flyers, so it will be not only a narrative of the history of underground metal, but also a massive and interesting menu of diverse viewpoints for devotees of underground metal genres such as death metal,blackmetal, grindcore and doommetal.
This celebration of the underground will attempt to make sense of the fertile but chaotic years of its origins.
Book Details:
– 500+ pages
– Spot UV print on cover details
– Extra material not featured on the 1st print
– Shrink wrapped
– Artwork by Mark Riddick
Sample of bands/labels/editors featured: ABOMINATION, AFTER DEATH, AFTERMATH, AMMIT, ANATHEMA, ARMOROS, ASSASSIN, AT THE GATES, ATHEIST, ATOMIC AGGRESSOR, AUTOPSY, AVULSED, BATTLEFIELD ZINE, BAZILLION POINTS, BLASPHEMY, BLIND ILLUSION, BLOODFEAST, BLOODSOAKED, BLOODY ZINE, BURNT OFFERING, C.O.C., CADAVE, CANNIBAL CORPSE, CARBONIZED, CARNAGE, CAUCHEMAR, CENSORED HEAVY METAL ZINE, COMPILATION OF DEATH ZINE, CRADLE OF FILTH, CREMATORY, PARADISE LOST, CRIONIC, CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER, CRYPTS OF ETERNITY ZINE, CYNIC, DARK ANGEL, DARK DESCENT RECORDS, DARK TRANQUILLITY, DARKNESS, DARKTHRONE, DEAD CONGREGATION, DEATH, DEATH METAL.ORG, DEATH YELL, DEATHRASH, DECEASED, DELIRIUM, DEMOLITION HAMMER, DESEXULT, DESTRUCTION, DESULTORY, DISMEMBER, DORSAL ATLANTICA, DR. SHRINKER, EDGE OF SANITY, ELECTROZOMBIES, EMPEROR, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SVENSK DÖDS METALL BOOK, ENTOMBED, EXMORTIS, FATAL, FDA REKOTZ, FUNERAL BITCH, FUNERAL NATION, GENERAL SURGERY, GLORIOUS TIMES BOOK, GOATORD, GOREFEST, GORGOROTH, GRAND SUPREME BLOOD COURT, GRAVE, GRAVEYARD, GROTESQUE, HADEZ, HELL’S DOMAIN, HELL’S HEADBANGERS REC., HOT ROCKIN ZINE, I.N.R.I., IMMORTAL, IMPALED NAZARENE, IMPIETY, INCANTATION, INCUBUS, INSANIAC, INSANITY, INSANITY ZINE, INTOXICATE, INVOCATOR, IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS, IRON PEGASUS RECORDS, KRANIUM, KRYPTS, LETHAL AGGRESSION, MADHOUSE MAG., MANTAS, MASSACRE, MASSAKRE, MASTER, MAYHEM, MENTAL DECAY, MERCILESS, METAL CORE ZINE, METAL EXTREMO BOOK, METALIZED MAG. , MIASMAL, MORBID ANGEL, MORBID INSULTER, MORBID MAG., MORBUS CHRON, MORTA SKULD, MORTEM, MUTILATOR, NAPALM DEATH, NECROBUTCHER, NECROCURSE, NECROPHILE, NECROS CHRISTOS, NECROWRETCH, NERVOCHAOS, NIRVANA 2002, NOCTURNUS, NOMINON, NUCLEAR WAR NOW! PROD., NUNSLAUGHTER, OBLITERATION, OBLIVEON, OBSCURITY, OLD FUNERAL, ONSLAUGHT, ORDER FROM CHAOS, PAJAROS NEGROS BOOK, PARADISE LOST, PEACEVILLE RECORDS, PENTAGRAM, PENTAGRAM CHILE, PERVERSOR, PHANTASM, PINK REASON, POISON, POSSESSED, PROCESSION, PROSELYTISM, RATTLEHEAD ZINE, RESURRECTURIS, RIPPING HEADACHES ZINE, ROTTING CHRIST, ROTTREVORE, SACRIFICIAL, SADISM, SARCOFAGO, SAVAGE DEATH, SENTENCED, SEPULTURA, SEVERANCE, SINDROME, SINISTER, SKULLCRUSHER, SLAUGHTER LORD, SLAYER, SNAKEPIT MAG, SODOM, SORCERY, SUFFER, SUFFOCATION, SWEDISH DEATH METAL BOOK, THRASH ATTACK ZINE, THRONEUM, TO THE DEATH RECORDS, TORMENTOR, TORTURER, TOTTEN KORPS, TRAUMATIC, TRIBULATION, UNDERCROFT, UNDERGANG, VARATHRON, VIBRION, VOICES FROM THE DARK SIDE ZINE, VOIVOD, VOMITOR, VULCANO, WATAIN, WEHRMACHT, WHIPLASH, XYSMA.