Death metal is one of popular music's most extreme variants, and is typically viewed as almost monolithically nihilistic, misogynistic, and reactionary. Michell

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Introduction by John Peel. In 1986 it was unimaginable that death metal and grindcore would ever impact popular culture. Yet this barbaric amalgam of hardcore p