MEET YOUR DOOM!

Heavy Metal’s most miserable style yet oozed into being in the 1980s – slower, darker, and more lugubrious than anything that came before, DOOM METAL and SLUDGE METAL trundled out from the souls of these stubborn Black Sabbath acolytes and slowly spread its tendrils across the world. From its earliest heavy-rock origins to its far-flung major progenitors, from its weirdest punk freaks to its most larger-than-life heavy metal heroes, from its prog-rocking relics to its extremophilic envelope-pushers, and from its most illustrious Epic Doom champions to the bizarre assortment of of noise-rocking freaks that made Sludge possible, this fifth installment of THE HISTORY OF HEAVY METAL will tell you what to look out for when you hear the tolling of. . . THE BELLS OF DOOM!

Featuring insightful coverage of dozens of bands – world-famous doom, sludge, and noise rock titans alongside worthwhile lesser-known acts – THE HISTORY OF HEAVY METAL VOL 5: THE BELLS OF DOOM is your guide to an indispensable era of heavy metal history

Half-letter zine, 48 pages, 20'000 words.