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American record companies scooped up a few bands and signed them to major label recording deals (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax) but that left hundreds of bands--and their fans--trying to get their songs heard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese intrepid metal bands borrowed a page from punk's DIY handbook and did it themselves. Regional favorites. Hometown heroes. Tour van veterans. Bands who invested their life-savings into recording and pressing their songs onto albums for a shot at immortality on vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"With his previous books, \u003ci\u003eCrossover the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Can Be theNew Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, Alexandros Anesiadis has already proven beyond doubt his commitmentto his subject matter when it comes to unearthing long-lost musical gems. Asonic archaeologist on an arcane mission, he does all the digging and gets hishands dirty, so we don't have to. And once again, \u003ci\u003eHeroes of the Metal Underground\u003c\/i\u003e isno exception, a warm and enthusiastic trawl through the American metalunderground of the Eighties - a deep dive so deep your ears will be bleeding...and not just from the hydrostatic pressure! This one will take you a month toread, but a whole year to digest, such is the colorful smorgasbord of raredelicacies served up for your attention.\" - Ian Glasper, \u003ci\u003eSilence Is NoReaction: Forty Years of Subhumans\u003c\/i\u003e  (PM Press,2023) and \u003ci\u003eBurning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984\u003c\/i\u003e (PM Press, 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"Alexandros' in-depth research and clear love and fervor forthis music bleeds all over this book! A reference book to a movement thatchanged music from the underside, through the back door and crashing the gatesto get in. A never taking no for an answer youth movement of music which islike a library full of classics for you to discover! A must have history book!Alexandros has painstakingly amassed a wealth of history and it rings familiarto my memories of my high school band Cro-Mags and the underground DIY bruteforce culture of underground metal and hardcore that made us give our all atour 'Stab at immortality.'\" - Parris Mayhew, AGGROS and former member of the Cro-Mags\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"The metal underground, the tape trading letter writingmangled demo pushing world was similar to the punk underground. And like thatunderground, there is even an underground under the underground! 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