Headbanging Horror

A curious music journalist sets out to discover the truth behind a mysterious black metal outfits propensity for putting on live shows that end in tragedy and disaster.

World of Bones are black metal local heroes. Instead of focusing on just the girls and outlandish showmanship, perhaps they should have paid more attention to the source material they gleaned their song lyrics from.

Horror metal band Drowning in Gore love to go all out for their fans. So much so they pick lucky winners each time they make a new album to come along to a Mystery Recording Location to take part in the album's creation. The Drowniacs selected this time are going to wish their names weren't on the list of winners.

An overzealous morals crusader with a fearsome reputation for crushing all forms of entertainment he views as sinful and evil has a new touring metal band in his sights. He will go to extremes to ensure his town isn't sullied by their musical debauchery.

In the dead of night death metal supergroup Undead Fleshcrave are calling all true death heads to worship at the altar of bludgeoning brutality. Soon, the sleepy little beachside town they've descended upon is going to be rocked by far more than subterranean death metal savagery.

Horror and heavy metal. The misfit children in their respective fields. Maligned, misunderstood, feared. Brothers from another mother.

Jim Goforth's passion for heavy metal is no secret.

Assembled here in this volume are a selection of his horror tales where metal is front and centre. These aren't just stories driven by heavy metal, they are heavy metal. Brutal, bloody, uncompromising, extreme.

This is Headbanging Horror.