Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1: The Prehistory
2: Sabbath Phase I: Black Sabbath
3: Acid Rock and Beyond
4: Funk
5: The 1970s Experimental European Underground
6: Punk Rock: The Non-Heavy Genre that was Vital for Heaviness
7: Industrial Rock
8: Noise Rock
9: Sabbath Phase II: Melvins' Gluey Porch Treatments
10: The Global Impact of Napalm Death's Scum
11: The Late 1980s and Early 1990s Pre-Grunge Underground
12: TAD: The Heaviest and Least Celebrated Grunge Band
13: Steve Albini: Heavy-duty Engineer
14: Sabbath Phase III: Earth, Sleep, Electric Wizard and Other Assorted Stoners
15: The Nadir: The Late 1990s and Early 2000s
16: The 2000s Noise Scene
17: Post-rock and Post-metal
18: Sabbath Phase IV: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and the Modern Heavy Underground
19: Never Say Die
References
Further Reading
Select Discography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index.