Heavy Metal and Other Extreme Music Variants

Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness

Louis Pattison, Nick Richardson, Brandon Stosuy, and Nathan T Birk

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore

Albert Mudrian and John Peel

Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult

Dayal Patterson

Swedish Death Metal

Daniel Ekeroth

Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria

Dominic Fox

Slayer's Reign in Blood (33 1/3)

D. X. Ferris

Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology

Scott Wilson

Black Sabbath's Master of Reality

John Darnielle

The Art of Metal: Five Decades of Heavy Metal Album Covers, Posters, T-Shirts, and More

Malcolm Dome and Martin Popoff

All Known Metal Bands

Dan Nelson

True Norwegian Black Metal: We Turn in the Night Consumed by Fire

Peter Beste

Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, 1981-1985

Tom Gabriel Fischer and Martin Eric Ain

Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures

Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Mark LeVine

Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces

Albert Mudrian

NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990

Tony Rettman

Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary: Black Metal

Steven Shakespeare, Eugene Thacker, and Aspasia Stephanou

My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and beyond - The Autobiography

Max Cavalera and Joel McIver

Dark Days: A Memoir

D. Randall Blythe

Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe

Mick Wall

Let There Be Gwar

Bob Gorman and Roger Gastman

Reinventing Metal: The True Story of Pantera and the Tragically Short Life of Dimebag Darrell : an Unauthorized Biography

Neil Daniels

Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

Ian Christe

The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984-94

Jorn "Necrobutcher" Stubberud

Confessions Of A Heretic: The Sacred And The Profane: Behemoth And Beyond

Adam Nergal Darski and Mark Eglinton

For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records

Brian Slagel and Mark Eglinton

Damn the Machine - The Story of Noise Records

David Gehlke

What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

Laina Dawes (Author)

Slipknot: Dysfunctional Family Portraits

Paul Harries

Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory

Nicola Masciandaro and Edia Connole

Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent

Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone

My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory

Roger Miret

Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story

Ika Johannesson and Jon Jefferson Klingberg

Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture

Jennifer Wallis

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