Extreme Metal - 30 Years Of Darkness (1981-2011)

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

00.1.Exordium
00.2.Prologue by Dave Rotten (Spanish Edition)
00.3.About this Book
00.4.An Introduction to Extreme Metal
         -00.4.1.What is Extreme Metal?
         -00.4.2.Brief Chronology
         -00.4.3. Extreme Metal Aesthetics
         -00.4.4. Extreme Metal Ethics
         -00.4.5. Extreme Metal Appreciation

01.0.EXTREME METAL PIONEERS

-01.1.Aesthetic and Historic Context
-01.2. Extreme Metal Pioneers
-01.3.Musical Origin and Previous Influences
-01.4.1981-1983: Pre-Thrash
         -01.4.1.His (True) Satanic Majesty: Venom
-01.5.1983-1986: Lost in the Shadows (of Thrash Metal)
         -01.5.1.The Triumph of Death: Hellhammer
         -01.5.2.Under the Sign of the Black Mark: Bathory
         -01.0.3.Celtic Frost: The Glorious Emperor’s Return
-01.6.1987-1989: Novelties, Transformations and Decadences
         -01.6.1.Bathory: Vikingatiden
         -01.6.2.Celtic Frost after the Pandemonium: Cold Lake
-01.7.1989-Nowadays: Two Decades in the Purgatory
         -01.7.1.Bathory: The Long Path to Valhalla
         -01.7.2.Celtic Frost: Resurrection, Death and Resurrection
-01.8.Repulsion: Le Cadavre Exquis

02.0.THRASH METAL

-02.1.The Spirit of Thrash Metal
-02.2.Technique
-02.3.Aesthetics and Lyrics
-02.4.Origin and Previous Influences
-02.5.1983-1986
         -02.5.1.USA: Sonic Earthquake in San Francisco
         -02.5.2.USA: East Coast Thrash & Rest of USA
         -02.5.3.Europe: The Ancient Roots of the Old Continent
         -02.5.4.Thrash Metal über Alles: Rest of the World
-02.6.1987-1991
         -02.6.1.Technicality, Fame... and Immobilism:  USA
         -02.6.2.Old Ways of Evil: Europe and Rest of the World
         -02.6.3.1985-1991: The Mad Years of Crossover Thrash
-02.7.1991-1998
         -02.07.1.Passion and... Death? of Thrash Metal
-02.8.1998-Nowadays
         -02.08.1.Aftermath Zombie Rennaissance
         -02.08.2.Sweden is on the Long Way Home
         -02.08.3.Worldwide Infection: Rest of the World
-02.9.ADDENDUM: GROOVE METAL
         -02.09.1.Groove Metal: The Mighty  90’s
         -02.08.2.New Millenium Groove Metal

03.0.DEATH METAL

-03.1.Music Made Death, Death Made Music
-03.2.Technique
-03.3.Lyrics and Aesthetics
-03.4.Origin and Musical Influences: The Grey Zone
-03.5.1986-1991: The Golden Age of Death Metal
         -03.5.1.Floridian Death Metal
         -03.5.2.Spread the Word: Rest of de North America
         -03.5.3.Florida and the Development of Technical Death Metal
         -03.5.4.Deep Origins of Brutal Death Metal
         -03.5.5.Euro Death Metal. Rest of the World
-03.6.1992-1996: Returning Underground
         -03.6.1.Endangered Species: American Death Metal
         -03.6.2.Europe: Consolidation of Death Metal
         -03.6.3.Spreading the Disease: Death Metal in the Rest of the World
         -03.6.4.Technical Death Metal: The Leaderless Army
         -03.6.5.Brutal Death Metal: The Virus gets Stronger
         -03.6.6.Brutal Death Metal: Suffocation’s Influence/za
-03.7.1996-2003: Majesty and Decay
         -03.7.1.The Crisis of Death Metal Clásico: USA
         -03.7.2.Death Metal: The European Reserve. Rest of the World
         -03.7.3.Technical Death Metal: Brutal Convergence
         -03.7.4.Brutal Death Metal: The Glory Years
-03.8.2003-Nowadays: And the Dead will Walk Again
         -03.8.1.Death Metal: Return to the Roots (of all Evil)
         -03.8.2.Technical Death Metal: Death is the New Prog
         -03.8.3.Brutal Death Metal: Against the Minotaur

04.0.SWEDISH AND MELODIC DEATH METAL

-04.1.The Candle that Burns at Both Ends
-04.2.Technique
-04.3.Lyrics and Aesthetics
-04.4.Origin and Musical Influences: Stormakstiden: The Rise of the Swedish Empire
-04.5.1988-1992: Swedish Death Metal
         -04.5.1.Old School Swedish Death Metal: The Stockholm Sound
         -04.5.2.The Transition: Re-Creating Swedish Death Metal
-04.6.1992-1998: Vikings Raiding Europe
         -04.6.1.Old School Swedish Death Metal: The Loneliness of the Void
         -04.6.2.New School Swedish Death Metal: The Gothenburg Sound
         -04.6.3.Swedish Death/Black Metal: The Perfect (Snow) Storm
         -04.6.4.DeathN'Roll? Huh?
         -04.6.5.Melodic Death Metal: I Play the Music for the Masses
-04.7.1988-Nowadays: Migration and New Settlements
         -04.7.1. Old School Swedish Death Metal: Reborn in Blasphemy
         -04.7.2.The Sack of Gothenburg
         -04.7.3.Swedish Death/Black Metal: Swallowed by Nothingness
         -04.7.4. New Blood Thirst: Melodic Death Metal

05.0.GRINDCORE & GOREGRIND

-05.1.From the Squatter to the Morgue
-05.2.Technique
-05.3.Lyrics and Aesthetics
-05.4.Origin and Musical Influences: The (Old) School of the Streets
-05.5.1990-1994: The Sound and the Fury
         -06.5.1.Grindcore: Revolution Begins
         -06.5.2.Goregrind: The Age of (Surgical) Steel
-05.6.1994-1999: Resistance is Futile
         -06.6.1.Grindcore: Exploiting Classicism
         -06.6.2.Goregrind: The Art of Bloodletting
-05.7.1999-Nowadays: In Grind we Crust
         -06.7.1.Contemporary Grindcore
         -06.7.2.Goregrind: Resurrection in Putrefaction

06.0.INDUSTRIAL METAL

-06.1.The Revolt of the Machines
-06.2.Technique
-06.3.Lyrics and Aesthetics
-06.4.Origin and Musical Influences: Enslaved by the (Musical) Industry
-06.5.1989-2000: The Industrial Revolution
         -05.5.1.Extreme Industrial Metal
-06.6.Metal Industries & Co.

07.0.DOOM METAL & GOTHIC METAL

-07.1.The Sexuality of Bereavement
-07.2.Technique
-07.3.Lyrics and Aesthetics
-07.4.Origin and Musical Influences: Doom Metal: a Terminological Dilemma
-07.5.1988-1993: Sturm und Drang
         -07.5.1.The Parnassus of English Romanticism
         -07.5.2.Origins of Gothic Metal
-07.6.1993-1998: Years of Wine and (Dead) Roses
         -07.6.1.Doom Metal: The Golden Age
         -07.6.2.Gothic Metal: Common Ways
-07.7.1998-2003: Aristocracy and Decadentism
         -07.7.1.Doom Metal’s Doom
         -07.7.2.Gothic Metal: From the Catacombs to Belfries
-07.8.2003-Nowadays: The Opening of the Tomb
         -07.8.1.Doom Metal: The Headless Ouroboros

08.0.FOLK METAL

-08.1.The Heart of the People
-08.2.Technique
-08.3.Lyrics and Aesthetics
-08.4.Origin and Musical Influences: Pioneers, Parallels, Experiments and Evolutions
-08.5.1990-1999: The Sceneless Style
-08.5.1999-Nowadays: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

09.0.BLACK METAL 

-09.1.Denial of All Life
-09.2.Technique
-09.3.Lyrics and Aesthetics
-09.4.Origin and Musical Influences: Black Metal Roots
-09.5.1.1984-1991: Under the Sign of the Pioneers
         -09.5.1.Classic Black Metal
-09.6.1991-1993: The Golden Age of Black Metal
         -09.6.1.Classic Black Metal: Blackness Spreads
         -09.6.2.Yggdrasil’s Dark Seed: Norwegian Black Metal
         -09.6.3.Unrooting Symphonic Black Metal
         -09.6.4.Death/Black: Two Hells Clash
-09.7.1993-1998: Black Metal’s Worldwide Expansion
         -09.7.1.Classic Black Metal Resists
         -09.7.2.Norwegian Black Metal: The Musical Blitzkrieg
         -09.7.3.Symphonic Black Metal: Tocatta and Fugue in E Minor
         -09.7.4.Melodic Black Metal: The Genesis
         -09.7.5.Death/Black: Forgotten Splendor Years
         -09.7.6.Black Thrash: The Unburied Corpse
-09.8.1998-2003: Neoblack: Vanguard and Renewal
         -09.8.1.Classic Black Metal: From the Depths
         -09.8.2.La Consistencia del Norwegian Black Metal
         -09.8.3.Symphonic Black Metal: Onward to Vanguard
         -09.8.4.Melodic Black Metal: Darwinistic Adaptation
         -09.8.5.Death/Black: Aesthetic Evolution and Musical Involution
-09.9.2003-Nowadays: Sustained Development
         -09.9.1.Classic Black Metal: Reconquering the Throne
         -09.9.2.Norwegian Black Metal: The Inexpugnable Castle in the Woods
         -09.9.3.Symphonic Black Metal: Hybridation
         -09.9.4.Melodic Black Metal: An Universe in Perpetual Expansion
         -09.9.5.Death/Black: The Eternal Return
09.10.ANEXO: BLACK AMBIENT
         -09.10.1.The Sound of (Dark) Silence
         -09.10.2.Black Metal-Spirited Ambient
         -09.10.3.Black Metal-Ambiented Spirits

10.0.AVANTGARDE AND PROGRESSIVE EXTREME METAL

11.0.Conclusion: The Future of Extreme Metal
12.0.Bibliography
13.0.Notes
14.0.Band Index

 

 

 
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