Sunday, January 5, 2014

ITP V.014 BOOK READING: "UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES": SET TO BE UNLEASHED IN BOOK, LP, CD and CASSETTE FORMAT

A new book chronicling the 80's- 90's to present underground extreme metal scene "UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES" is set to be unleashed 1/2014 via DOOMENTIA RECORDS from the Czech Republic.
 
 "UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES" includes a book, LP, and soon CD, cassette tape and a A1 poster.

 "UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES" includes extreme metal scene testimonials from CHRIS REIFERT (AUTOPSY), ERIK DANIELSSON (WATAIN) and more.







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UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES! will be out at the end of January via Doomentia Records, in Czech Republic. 
The book and LP are already printed. We are just waiting for the CD and Tape to be finished!

It is written in English and will be distributed via several UG distros in EEUU and Europe. All pre-orders must be done exclusively via Doomentia. Unfortunately, price is not yet 100% confirmed -I guess an estimate is something like 48 Euros-.

Thanks a lot for the support!!!


UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES! BOOK 
+ 12"Gatefold LP and Compact Disc and Tape + A1 Poster.

Pause for a minute: what does being “underground” actually mean nowadays? Especially now that the immediacy of the internet has shrunk our world so that someone on the other side of the friggin’ planet can know what kind of socks you’re wearing that day… Is the underground an outdated concept? A romantic vision of what once was the metal scene? An illusion? If you’re still looking for an answer, Underground Never Dies! provides copious reasons why, as elusive as it may be, the notion of “underground” is still part of music’s DNA.

This juggernaut of a book is more than ”just” a book. Not only is it one of the most complete and impressive compendiums of flyers, pictures, zines and reviews from the mid-80s until the early 90’s – a/k/a the ”golden years” of extreme underground metal – but it’s also a general overview of a time when internet and viral promotion wasn’t even a sci-fi concept. When everything happened through mail or word-of-mouth and a very scattered secret society of misfits built piece by piece a gigantic network that remains to this day the very foundation of the music we all love and worship.

With a cover by Mark Riddick and edited by longstanding Grinder Magazine publisher and respected figure Andrés Padilla - who already did a fantastic job on the Retrospectiva al Metal Chileno (1983-1993) – the book describes the underground “as devotion and commitment. Musically, it is the opposite of establishment and a giant ‘fuck you’ to the system.” It may have taken more than three years to put together those 500 pages but the result is nothing but outstanding. Uniting all of metal’s sub-genres under one flag (of hate) and with testimonials from Chris Reifert (AUTOPSY), Erik Danielsson (WATAIN) and Alan Moses (Glorious Times), Underground Never Dies! is way more than ”just” a book. It’s a monument, dedicated to where the heart of REAL metal always beats.

Official blurb for UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES! book !

Feel free to spread it !

Happy New Year to all metal brothers!


Andres Padilla S.
Editor
www.grindermagazine.cl
www.corvusdiscos.cl


Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-