Editor Justin St. Vincent has just released the The Spiritual Significance Of Music: Metal Edition which provides an exciting exploration of how music powerfully impacts spirituality, and why spirituality influences music. According to a press release, readers will discover sincere expressions of spiritual beliefs from the world of metal music. This portfolio includes an eclectic mix of musicians playing many forms of metal music; ambient metal, avant-garde death-metal, black metal, brutal metal, death metal, doom metal, experimental metal, funeral-doom, gothic metal, grindcore, heavy metal, industrial metal, melodic metal, power metal, progressive metal, psychedelic metal, Satanic metal, sludge metal, speed metal, symphonic metal, technical metal, thrash metal, and includes musicians from alternative-rock, avant-rock, and hardcore-punk bands. Metal Edition provides readers with an important introduction to metal music’s affinity with demonology, divination, magic, mysticism, Satanism, spiritualism, the occult, and witchcraft.

Bands featured in The Spiritual Significance Of Music: Metal Edition include: ANGELCORPSE, ASVA, BLACKMASS, BREED 77, BRUJERIA, CANNIBAL CORPSE, DAWN OF AZAZEL, ENSLAVED, ENTHRONED, EVOCATION, FAITH NO MORE, FANTÔMAS, GORGOROTH, HATESPHERE, JAKOB, JUDGEMENT, MASTER, MELECHESH, METAL CHURCH, MY DYING BRIDE, NAPALM DEATH, PITCHSHIFTER, PURGATORY, REQUIEM, RESURRECTION, SAMAEL, STRIBORG, TAROT, UNLEASHED, VILE.

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