***A hardcover reissue release of the crucial tenth issue of Norway’s infamous Slayer Mag, overflowing with key MAYHEM, BURZUM, DARKTHRONE, THORNS, EMPEROR, SATYRICON, BATHORY, DISSECTION, ENSLAVED, and many more candid black metal interviews from the turbulent 1992 through 1994 period. The material anthologized in METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries is presented here in its complete, original form. JON “METALION” KRISTIANSEN, deemed to be “the godfather of Norwegian black metal” by Enslaved, created this deep and passionate record of the intertwined sensational actions, rivalries, violence, and totally new and unique underground black metal music. The interviews, basically unguarded conversations among friends, today comprise the most complete and unfiltered document for understanding the mindset and personalities involved in Norway’s violent attacks, murders, and church arsons happening at the time. 82-pages.
BK $18.95
06/24/2014
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Bazillion Points Books unleashes METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries, a mammoth 744-page hardcover journey into black metal, death metal, and beyond by Norway's metal godfather JON KRISTIANSEN. Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, METALION includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer Mag, spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life's story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to world-weary metal survivor. The book also features over 100 rare photographs, including two color sections and a portrait gallery of photographs taken by Kristiansen himself. The astonishing combination of archival material includes scores of key historic interviews with the most revered figures in extreme metal, including Mayhem, Emperor, Slayer, Kreator, Nihilist, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Cathedral, Entombed, Morbid, Napalm Death, Metallica, Opeth, Cradle of Filth, Sadistik Execution, Usurper, Nifelheim, Darkthrone, Sodom, Destruction, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Exodus, Dissection, Candlemass, Carcass, Sepultura, Gorgoroth, Death, Watain, Sadus, Satyricon, Enslaved, Pentagram, Jarboe, Immortal, Possessed, Overkill, Ulver, Dark Angel, and countless others.
BK $43.25
06/21/2011