Abstract: << Like an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music on steroids, Bang Your Head is an epic history of every band and every performer that has proudly worn the Heavy Metal badge. Whether headbanging is your guilty pleasure or you firmly believe that this much-maligned genre has never received the respect it deserves, Bang Your Head is a must-read that pays homage to a music that’s impossible to ignore, especially when being blasted through a sixteen-inch woofer.
Charting the genesis of early metal with bands like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden; the rise of metal to the top of the Billboard charts and heavy MTV rotation featuring the likes of Def Leppard and Metallica; hitting its critical peak with bands like Guns N’ Roses; disgrace during the “hair metal” ’80s; and a demise fueled by the explosion of the Seattle grunge scene and the “alternative” revolution, Bang Your Head is as funny as it is informative and proves once and for all that there is more to metal than sin, sex, and spandex.
To write this exhaustive history, David Konow spent three years interviewing the bands, wives, girlfriends, ex-wives, groupies, managers, record company execs, and anyone who was or is a part of the metal scene, including many of the band guys often better known for their escapades and bad behavior than for their musicianship. Nothing is left unsaid in this jaw-dropping, funny, and entertaining chronicle of power ballads, outrageous outfits, big hair, bigger egos, and testosterone-drenched debauchery. >>
(SOURCE: https://www.amazon.com/Bang-Your-Head-Heavy-Metal/dp/0609807323)

Abstract: << ARMA CHRISTI is a massive, 312 page colour hardback art book documenting a vast curation of black metal merchandise, covering a period spanning from the mid-80s to the year 2000.
The book includes text by Jean Valnoir Simoulin, art historian Nicolas Ballet and Paul Ryan of Cradle of Filth/Nine Covens. Cover scarifications were carefully cut by Valeria Sakseeva, and the photo is by Melchior Ferradou Tersen.
Includes: GORGOROTH, MAYHEM, SUMMONING, DARKTHRONE, ROTTING CHRIST, BEHERIT, IMPALED NAZARENE, URGEHAL, NIFELHEIM, FALKENBACH, ISENGARD, CARPATHIAN FOREST, HELLHAMMER, GEHENNA, CRADLE OF FILTH, BURZUM, MARDUK, HECATE ENTHRONED, VLAD TEPES, MASTER'S HAMMER, ABIGOR, BEHEMOTH, NORTH, DECAYED, WATAIN, DARK FUNERAL, CELTIC FROST, CIRITH GORGOR, BELPHEGOR, THOU ART LORD, ORDER FROM CHAOS, SAMAEL, BESTIAL SUMMONING, MALIGNANT ETERNAL, MORTUARY DRAPE, ARCTURUS, POSSESSED, TORGEIST, ROOT, ARKHON INFAUSTUS, ENSLAVED, FOREST OF SOULS, ARCKANUM, SADISTIK EXEKUTION, BATHORY, MOONSPELL, VELES, NASTROND, EVOL, NOKTURNAL MORTUM, MASOCHIST, SIEBENBURGEN, DESTROYER 666, THUS DEFILED, PEST, ABYSSIC HATE, MONUMENTUM, OSCULUM INFAME, CHRIST AGONY, TROLL, BLESSED IN SIN, JUDAS ISCARIOT, MYSTICUM, GRAVELAND, MOONBLOOD, OCCULT, SACRAMENTUM, TAAKE, DIABOLICUM, ANGELCORPSE, SKYFORGER, SABBAT, BLACK FUNERAL, ANCIENT RITES, IMMORTAL, VENOM, IMPIETY, GODKILLER, CONQUEROR, SATYRICON, MYSTIFIER, KAMPFAR, LIMBONIC ART, SALEM, ANTAEUS, LIAR OF GOLGOTHA, DODHEIMSGARD, ISVIND, DISSECTION, FUNERAL WINDS, OLD MAN'S CHILD, INFERNUM, LORD BELIAL, BEKHIRA, NAGLFAR, NECROPHOBIC, BLUT AUS NORD, EQUIMANTHORN, SWORDMASTER, LUGUBRUM, ANCIENT, MERCILESS, NECROMANTIA, PERVERTUM, GORGON, SADISTIC INTENT BAL-SAGOTH, GAAHLSKAGG, ABSU, ENTHRONED, ZEMIAL, SETHERIAL, ABAZAGORATH, DESASTER, ULVER, EMPEROR, DIMMU BORGIR, BLACK WITCHERY, BESTIAL WARLUST, BORKNAGAR, DIABOLOS RISING and many more!
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(Source: cult never dies website)