First Print Edition Fortres Europe metal travel book

The First Print Edition of journalist Ryan Bartek’s extreme metal travel book “FORTRESS EUROPE (The Big Shiny Prison Vol II)” will be released to worldwide distribution 3/15/16.

This 384 page, 6×9 Paperback will be available for $18.95 / €18 through Amazon USA, Europe & UK. “Fortress Europe” will also be available at 55% wholesale discount through the Ingram Spark/LSI distribution network, putting it on the systems of 38,000+ booksellers worldwide.

Inspired by the legendary works of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, Detroit writer Ryan Bartek traveled the USA to create his own metal road saga of extreme journalism “THE BIG SHINY PRISON” which was released as a First Print Edition on 2/16/2016.

The sequel “FORTRESS EUROPE” (The Big Shiny Prison Vol. II)’ chronicles the author backpacking Europe and his intense exploration of fringe and alternative culture. This genre-defying work features hundreds of face-to-face interviews with a number of legends in extreme metal, punk rock, industrial, experimental, rock, and other alternative cultures in Europe today.

“FORTRESS EUROPE (The Big Shiny Prison Vol. II)” features interviews/appearances by with members of Brutal Truth, Master, Agathocles, Wolfbrigade, Rotting Christ, Killing Joke, Funeral Winds, Nahemah, Enochian Crescent, Moonsorrow, LAIBACH, Defeated Sanity, First Blood, Hello Bastards, Abortion, Panthiest, Arkangel, HATE, Repulsione, Dehuman, General Surgery, Corpus Christii, Fides Inversa, Excavated, Primordial, Splitter, Pyramido, Black Breath, Ingurgitating Oblivion, El Schlong, Spacemen 3 & legendary Detroit writer John Sinclair.

Less a music book and more a tribute to the Beat Generation, “Fortress Europe” combines the classic autobiographical road novel with current European Counterculture.