First Print Edition “The Big Shiny Prison” Extreme Metal Travel Book out 2/16

The First Print Edition of journalist Ryan Bartek’s extreme metal travel book “THE BIG SHINY PRISON” has been released 2/16/16 to worldwide distribution.

This 484 page, 6×9 Paperback is available for $18.95 / €18 through Amazon USA, Europe & UK. “The Big Shiny Prison” is also available at 55% wholesale discount through the Ingram Spark/LSI distribution network 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. 1 year, 35 States, 600+ hours on Greyhounds & 1000 cities later, “THE BIG SHINY PRISON” was complete – a unique travel book featuring hundreds of interviews with legends in the metal/punk undergrounds, as well as other alternative cultures in the USA.

Less a “music book” and more a tribute to the Beat Generation, this genre-defying work combines the classic autobiographical road novel with Bartek’s self-styled “Extreme Journalism” in the Modern Underground.

“The Big Shiny Prison (Volume One)” features appearances/interviews with members of Brutal Truth, DWARVES, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, AxCx, MDC, Psyopus, Abysmal Dawn, Kylesa, Ludicra, Cephalic Carnage, Atheist, Impaled, HIMSA, Melechesh, Severed Savior, In Memorium, STALAGGH, Kettle Cadaver, Otesanek, The Angelic Process, 7000 Dying Rats, Screaming Mechanical Brain, EXITIUM, Light This City, Genghis Tron, Blood Stained Dusk, Solger, VILE, Sol Evil, SINDIOS, Kill The Client, OCTAGON, The Gracchi, My Uncle The Wolf, Apocryph, Salt Lick, Amish Noise, Lesbian, Churchburner, Fre-Ne-Tik, Alchemical Burn, Crematorium, Waco Jesus, Snotrokitz, Suicide Holiday, Vertigo Venus, Kill The Precedent, Beefcake In Chains,, Dreaming Dead, They Live, Diverje, Scorched Earth, Quinta Essentia, Alternative Tentacles, Whorehouse of Representatives, RU-486, Mathematicians, Anal Pudding, A.K.A. MABUS, Disgorge, Nihilistik Terrorist, Lysia Gori, The Crashing Falcon, Stormdrain, Bu Hao Ting, Potty Mouth Society, Funeral Age, Uranium Death Crow, Stahlmantel, Hammers of Misfortune, Ron of Japan, Sasquatch Agnostic, Jakked Rabbits, We Both Know, Hunab Ku & others.

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