Heavy Metal’s spikiest and most ghastly style yet screamed into being in the 1980s - moodier, rawer, and more chaotic than anything that came before, THE FIRST WAVE OF BLACK METAL was a strange and ever-fascinating scatter of extreme and experimental bands that boiled heavy metal down to its bones and then mutated it into forms yet unseen. From its most amateurish freaks to its most bombastic heroes, and from its most bizarre noise-makers to its most true-believing rock’n’rollers, this sixth installment of THE HISTORY OF HEAVY METAL will tell you everything you need to know about THE FIRST WAVE OF BLACK METAL.

Featuring insightful coverage of dozens of bands – world-famous black metal titans and valiantly weird obscurities alike – THE HISTORY OF HEAVY METAL VOL 6: BIRTH OF THE GHOUL is your guide to an indispensible era of heavy metal history.

half-letter zine, 48 pages, 19'000 words