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Underground Metal Book "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" Available As Free PDF Download
The product of one year spent traveling the USA underground, "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" is a genre-bending work of nonfiction that is at once a road book and a journalistic expose on American counterculture as well.
In "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" Bartek makes it through 35 states, spends 600+ hours on Greyhounds while interviewing a variety of celebrities, musicians, journalists and travelers. Covering all forms of counterculture with a heavy emphasis on extreme metal & hardcore punk, The Big Shiny Prison refuses to become a stereotypical music book. It instead falls into the category of the autobiographical road novel using a relevant approach that appeals to both the average reader & the critical academia.
The book features interviews/appearances by THE BIG SHINY PRISON features appearances & interviews with members of Brutal Truth, Anal Cunt, Pig Destroyer, DWARVES, Barack Obama, MDC (Millions of Dead Cops), Repulsion, Psyopus, Abysmal Dawn, Cephalic Carnage, Kylesa, Deathlist 5, Ludicra, RATT, Lesbian, HIMSA, Job For A Cowboy, Atheist, Sol Evil, Impaled, Diverje, Light This City, PHOBIA, Kettle Cadaver, Scorched Earth, Foxy Shazam, Otesanek, In Memorium, Duffs Brooklyn, EXITIUM, The Angelic Process, ANAL CUNT, Blood Stained Dusk, Screaming Mechanical Brain, Fre-Ne-Tik, Zeke, Peppermint Creeps, Genghis Tron, Intronaut, Downtown Brown, Solger, Friends of Dennis Wilson, PHALLUS, Chinese Work Ethic, Melechesh, Vile, STALAGGH, Beefcake In Chains, SINDIOS, OCTAGON, The Gracchi, My Uncle The Wolf, Apocryph, Salt Lick, Amish Noise, Street Crime, 7000 Dying Rats, Churchburner, The Jet City Fixx, Alchemical Burn, Crematorium, Waco Jesus, Snotrokitz, Suicide Holiday, Galway Arms, Vertigo Venus, Severed Savior, Kill The Precedent, Kill The Client, Dreaming Dead, They Live, Brian Botkiller, Quinta Essentia, Alternative Tentacles, Whorehouse of Representatives, DSBP Records, RU-486, Mathematicians, Anal Pudding, Nihilistik Terrorist, Nihilistic Outlaw Criminal Order, A.K.A. MABUS, Onyx, Disgorge, Jack Cassady, Beer Metal Records, The Crashing Falcon, Lysia Gori, Stormdrain, The Dingbatz, Bu Hao Ting, Potty Mouth Society, Funeral Age, Uranium Death Crow, High Intensity Discharge, Stahlmantel, Hymns of The NeedleFreak, Hammers of Misfortune, The Plankton Beat, Ron of Japan, Jakked Rabbits, SASQUATRCH AGNSOTIC, The STDs, The Plankton Beat, The Slashers, We Both Know, Hunab Ku, Black Flame Records & many others.
Bartek also commented on the new cover artwork:
"The new cover art of 'The Big Shiny Prison' does not depict a hooded KKK figure but rather an infamous image of the government directed abuse at the Abu Gharib prison complex. During the early period of the Iraq War, US soldiers corralled thousands of Iraqi Civilians into the most feared prison of Saddam Husseins rule. It was soon discovered that US forces were torturing prisoners by sodomizing them with nightsticks, handcuffing pyramids of naked men together; water-boardings, beatings, electrocutions. Many detainees held without trial were walked around naked on leashes like dogs while real MP dogs attacked them. The photos were leaked & subsequently led to the imprisonment of the low-level Military Police who were ordered to commit these war crimes by the Bush Administration. The cover image is of the anonymous hooded man who was cloaked in a ragged black sheet and forced to standing atop a wooden box for hours as the loosely hanging wiring repeatedly electrocuted his testicles. On the cover, this anonymous figure is represented as standing atop the base of a mock Statue of Liberty."
Download "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" @ http://www.mediafire.com/?8nemo7r5i8desmd
Underground Metal Book "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" Available As Free PDF Download
The product of one year spent traveling the USA underground, "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" is a genre-bending work of nonfiction that is at once a road book and a journalistic expose on American counterculture as well.
In "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" Bartek makes it through 35 states, spends 600+ hours on Greyhounds while interviewing a variety of celebrities, musicians, journalists and travelers. Covering all forms of counterculture with a heavy emphasis on extreme metal & hardcore punk, The Big Shiny Prison refuses to become a stereotypical music book. It instead falls into the category of the autobiographical road novel using a relevant approach that appeals to both the average reader & the critical academia.
The book features interviews/appearances by THE BIG SHINY PRISON features appearances & interviews with members of Brutal Truth, Anal Cunt, Pig Destroyer, DWARVES, Barack Obama, MDC (Millions of Dead Cops), Repulsion, Psyopus, Abysmal Dawn, Cephalic Carnage, Kylesa, Deathlist 5, Ludicra, RATT, Lesbian, HIMSA, Job For A Cowboy, Atheist, Sol Evil, Impaled, Diverje, Light This City, PHOBIA, Kettle Cadaver, Scorched Earth, Foxy Shazam, Otesanek, In Memorium, Duffs Brooklyn, EXITIUM, The Angelic Process, ANAL CUNT, Blood Stained Dusk, Screaming Mechanical Brain, Fre-Ne-Tik, Zeke, Peppermint Creeps, Genghis Tron, Intronaut, Downtown Brown, Solger, Friends of Dennis Wilson, PHALLUS, Chinese Work Ethic, Melechesh, Vile, STALAGGH, Beefcake In Chains, SINDIOS, OCTAGON, The Gracchi, My Uncle The Wolf, Apocryph, Salt Lick, Amish Noise, Street Crime, 7000 Dying Rats, Churchburner, The Jet City Fixx, Alchemical Burn, Crematorium, Waco Jesus, Snotrokitz, Suicide Holiday, Galway Arms, Vertigo Venus, Severed Savior, Kill The Precedent, Kill The Client, Dreaming Dead, They Live, Brian Botkiller, Quinta Essentia, Alternative Tentacles, Whorehouse of Representatives, DSBP Records, RU-486, Mathematicians, Anal Pudding, Nihilistik Terrorist, Nihilistic Outlaw Criminal Order, A.K.A. MABUS, Onyx, Disgorge, Jack Cassady, Beer Metal Records, The Crashing Falcon, Lysia Gori, Stormdrain, The Dingbatz, Bu Hao Ting, Potty Mouth Society, Funeral Age, Uranium Death Crow, High Intensity Discharge, Stahlmantel, Hymns of The NeedleFreak, Hammers of Misfortune, The Plankton Beat, Ron of Japan, Jakked Rabbits, SASQUATRCH AGNSOTIC, The STDs, The Plankton Beat, The Slashers, We Both Know, Hunab Ku, Black Flame Records & many others.
Bartek also commented on the new cover artwork:
"The new cover art of 'The Big Shiny Prison' does not depict a hooded KKK figure but rather an infamous image of the government directed abuse at the Abu Gharib prison complex. During the early period of the Iraq War, US soldiers corralled thousands of Iraqi Civilians into the most feared prison of Saddam Husseins rule. It was soon discovered that US forces were torturing prisoners by sodomizing them with nightsticks, handcuffing pyramids of naked men together; water-boardings, beatings, electrocutions. Many detainees held without trial were walked around naked on leashes like dogs while real MP dogs attacked them. The photos were leaked & subsequently led to the imprisonment of the low-level Military Police who were ordered to commit these war crimes by the Bush Administration. The cover image is of the anonymous hooded man who was cloaked in a ragged black sheet and forced to standing atop a wooden box for hours as the loosely hanging wiring repeatedly electrocuted his testicles. On the cover, this anonymous figure is represented as standing atop the base of a mock Statue of Liberty."
Download "The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)" @ http://www.mediafire.com/?8nemo7r5i8desmd
