Heroes of the Metal Underground: The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands

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Alexandros Anesiadis Yannis Skarpelos

Heroes of the Metal Underground

The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands

Alexandros Anesiadis, Yannis Skarpelos

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Feral House,U.S.
06 December 2023

Heavy Metal music

The only encyclopedic and definitive book on American indie metal!

If all you know about metal music was what was heard on commercial radio, then you don't know metal at all. Heroes of the Metal Underground profiles over 1100 American bands from every town and city in the United States who ever released a record.

Metal bands exploded during the 1980s. Influenced by the heavy sounds coming out of Britain via Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, young guitar shredders turned the amps up and played harder and faster. American record companies scooped up a few bands and signed them to major label recording deals (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax) but that left hundreds of bands-and their fans-trying to get their songs heard.

These intrepid metal bands borrowed a page from punk's DIY handbook and did it themselves. Regional favorites. Hometown heroes. Tour van veterans. Bands who invested their life-savings into recording and pressing their songs onto albums for a shot at immortality on vinyl.

""With his previous books, Crossover the Edge and We Can Be theNew Wind, Alexandros Anesiadis has already proven beyond doubt his commitmentto his subject matter when it comes to unearthing long-lost musical gems. Asonic archaeologist on an arcane mission, he does all the digging and gets hishands dirty, so we don't have to. And once again, Heroes of the Metal Underground isno exception, a warm and enthusiastic trawl through the American metalunderground of the Eighties

a deep dive so deep your ears will be bleeding...and not just from the hydrostatic pressure! This one will take you a month toread, but a whole year to digest, such is the colorful smorgasbord of raredelicacies served up for your attention."" - Ian Glasper, Silence Is NoReaction: Forty Years of Subhumans (PM Press,2023) and Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 19801984 (PM Press, 2014)

""Alexandros' in-depth research and clear love and fervor forthis music bleeds all over this book! A reference book to a movement thatchanged music from the underside, through the back door and crashing the gatesto get in. A never taking no for an answer youth movement of music which islike a library full of classics for you to discover! A must have history book!

Alexandros has painstakingly amassed a wealth of history and it rings familiarto my memories of my high school band Cro-Mags and the underground DIY bruteforce culture of underground metal and hardcore that made us give our all atour 'Stab at immortality.'"" - Parris Mayhew, AGGROS and former member of the Cro-Mags

""The metal underground, the tape trading letter writingmangled demo pushing world was similar to the punk underground. And like thatunderground, there is even an underground under the underground! And this iswhere Alexandros come into the picture with his new book.""

Brian Walsby, SelfEmpunishment (Pelekinesis, 2020)

By: Alexandros Anesiadis
Contributions by: Yannis Skarpelos
Imprint: Feral House,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9781627311403
ISBN 10: 1627311408
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 06 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexandros Anesiadis was born in 1981 in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is now living between London and Greece. He's finishing his Ph.D. in Media and Communications while working on all things Social Media. He describes himself as a manic record collector, trying to get his hands on releases by bands that not many have a clue about. His previous books,Crossover The EdgeandWe Can Be The New Wind,document punk and hybrid punk-metal bands.Alex loves going to small club gigs, traveling the world, and attempting to keep his daughter and his partner happy!

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Heroes of the Metal Underground

The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands

Alexandros Anesiadis, Yannis Skarpelos

$96.95 $82.19

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