CHOOSING DEATH: THE IMPROBABLE HISTORY OF DEATH METAL AND GRINDCORE by Albert Mudrian Zines & Magazines stringing countless first-hand interviews into

stringing countless first-hand interviews into a seamless chronological narrative

Their deaths

The ground-breaking work was subsequently collected into the 1978 publication of his book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture

Dracula (the great John Carradine) plots to convert Billy the Kid’s (famed stuntman Chuck Courtney) fiancée

a Satanic plot that subconsciously preaches

CHOOSING DEATH: THE IMPROBABLE HISTORY OF DEATH METAL AND GRINDCORE by Albert Mudrian Zines & Magazines stringing countless first-hand interviews intoIn 1986, the idea that death metal and grindcore would ever impact popular culture was unimaginable. Yet soon this barbaric amalgam of hardcore punk and heavy metal came to perpetually define the musical threshold of extremity. Initially circulated through a scattered tape trading network of underground thrillseekers, bands rose from every corner of the globe and death metal and grindcore spread faster than a pandemic plague of undead flesheaters. By