Dear friends, the American darkness beckons! For today, the Czech edition of “USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal” by Daniel Lake, a longtime contributor to the iconic American metal magazine Decibel, is officially published.
USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal out now in Czech translation
More than 500 pages, ten chapters, fascinating account, many photos, hardcover… This book simply demands the attention of any and all fans of extreme metal and is now unleashed upon the local metal readership. Entitled USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal, it was penned by Daniel Lake, a longtime contributor to the iconic Decibel magazine.
Black metal has a long tradition in America going back to the 1980s. The scene was forged by bands, many of which eventually gained worldwide renown, such as Absu, Agalloch, Nachtmystium, VON or Deafheaven. A fascinating underground that ultimately gave rise to many legendary recordings.
Daniel Lake mapped the U.S. black metal thoroughly. His riotous tour takes the reader through the gutsiest convolutions of the scene, as told by the very musicians involved, thus showing a different incarnation of this phenomenon of a genre. “American black metal, rather than blindly reenacting those battles in the north, climbed primarily out of the native death metal, thrash and hardcore scenes,” observes the author in the book’s introduction. “But it was more caustic than death metal, more aggressively bleak and evil than thrash, and more fearless than hardcore. It became black metal because it was categorically not any of those other things…”
USBM is published as a hardcover; something uncommon for MetalGate editions. Translated by Michal Smolka.
As our edition is only in Czech, you can get the English original here. However, if you are interested in the Czech edition after all, drop us a line.