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The Book of Chilean passion for metal
The 216 pages of text are immersed in the genesis of an underground scene, always against the dictatorship and the Church. A journey to understand how Metallica can congregate to 55 thousand people to head a Tuesday.
Chopped riots, street mosh animated by the rain of guanacos, the police and in their best party distributing a fevered metalheads. The post is recent: Metallica visited for the third time the Equestrian Club. The total were 120 detainees. In the previous visit in 1999, totaled 46, in 1993, 75. New chapter for heavy rock anecdotes, one he knows, from its underground beginnings of lumas and discrimination, the trademark scarlet ever meant wearing long hair and black perch.
"The metal is greatly strengthened in the '80s as a niche, with a great capacity for organization. Never had an intellectual leader. That helped to strengthen the circuits, for example, Manuel Plaza. It is rare who has not been the same with punk, "muses the journalist Andrew Padilla, editor of the Grinder, who has just published his book" Chilean metal Retrospective (1980-1993). "
After two years of research, Padilla gave a compilation of anecdotes, stories and material about the rise of hard rock to the passions of national auditor: 216 pages over the decade in which neither dictatorship nor the Church were able to implement mute the primal scream marginal scene. "I never happened to me nothing more than an arrest on the beach. But people like Massacre Tolic Yanco was tortured. Removal of his hair with pliers, "he says.
In parallel to the mega-events, there remains a scene that makes fanzines, demo tapes, which is emulating the eighties, "says Padilla. "But there should be a burnt offering to return the golden era. Already assembled a market issue. There is silver. Metallica is not in the good mood. "
The book can be ordered on the site www.corvusdiscos.cl and next week will be in specialty record stores. There is also a deluxe edition that includes an old-school design LP ("gatefold" 12 ", type notepad), which compiles bands of the period as Nimrod, Torturer, Necrosis, Darkness, Belial and Betrayed. All drawn from demos ever released in that format. Disc undertook the German label Iron Bonehead.
The period ends in 1993, just the year that Metallica first came to the Velodrome. Days began when the thrashers megaconcerts starred in that society tolerates as the market integrates. Although the news was still frightened by the curly, urinating around the Equestrian Club: "If you drink water and no bathrooms, what's weird? The metal is passion, people travel to another country to follow their band. And he who does not understand, you will not understand until they live. "
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