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Illustrator Bruno Guerreiro Country United States Originally published 2004 Page count 384 Published in english 2015 | 3.9/5 Goodreads Cover artist Dan Seagrave Genre Music | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore is a book by Albert Mudrian, the founding editor-in-chief of Decibel, a monthly magazine devoted to heavy metal music. The book was first published in 2004 by Feral House and details the evolution of the death metal and grindcore musical genres, from its beginnings as a small subculture exchanging compact cassettes to a genre where some artists reach million-dollar sales. A second, updated and expanded edition was published in 2015.
It contains an introduction from the late BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. A reviewer for Terrorizer praised it as "the most informed and comprehensive document on death metal and grind that you will ever see".
The first Choosing Death Fest was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 16, 2016. The first part of the two-part festival was the Choosing Death Fest Grimposium, which included panel discussions with a variety of death metal experts and enthusiasts, and featured an advance screening of the 2016 documentary Death by Metal. The second part, a concert at Union Transfer, was headlined by Nails, and featured Misery Index, Deceased, Noisem, Horrendous, Derketa, and Taphos Nomos.