Damn the Machine - The Story of Noise Records is the tale of Europe's most groundbreaking-and important-heavy metal record company of the 1980s. Founded in the

Metaldata: A Bibliography of Heavy Metal Resources is the first book-length bibliography of resources about heavy metal. From its beginnings in the late 1960s a

Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary German popular music.

Tampa, Florida's Obituary has been a death metal institution since 1984. Guided by the inhuman, if not unfathomably deranged vocals of John Tardy, the obscenely

Exploring the musical styles and cultures of metal, this Companion is an indispensable introduction to this popular and distinctive genre.