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Doom Metal
The Popoff Archive series represents a project from long-time rock ‘n’ roller-interviewer Martin Popoff to make public his considerable archive of interviews conducted from 1994 to the present day. A majority chunk of every one of these in-depth chats has never been seen, outside of the quotes used for the much shorter features and news pieces for which they were conducted.
Lest one be concerned with overlap, Popoff has designed the series of books to stay clear of interviews that have been used throughout his approximately 58 books, thereby ensuring the freshness of this material.
All told, the Popoff Archive series represents a significant chunk of rock history as told in the 1990s and 2000s but often spanning the artist’s career, given Popoff’s enthusiasm for capturing the catalogue histories of these rockers whenever he gets the chance. Lovers of rare and undivulged rock trivia will find many revelations inside of this stack of chat, interview which are further presented by genre and subgenre to ensure better fit with readers’ specific tastes.
So here we go with Popoff Archive – 1: Doom Metal, which was a blast to assemble because most of these interviewees (but not all!) were pretty cool and introspective types, able to articulate what they were doing, which was, of course, celebrating what Sabbath first wrought, but with new twists in all manner of direction, a bit in the ‘80s but mostly in the ‘90sand 2000s. And this was all happening within a music industry that didn’t care about doom and stoner rock or in fact, pretty much anything to do with heavy metal at the time that most of these interviews took place. Ergo, most of these bands were recording with feisty small and mid-sized labels, some of which specialized in this growing genre beginning in the mid-‘90s.
Lest one be concerned with overlap, Popoff has designed the series of books to stay clear of interviews that have been used throughout his approximately 58 books, thereby ensuring the freshness of this material.
All told, the Popoff Archive series represents a significant chunk of rock history as told in the 1990s and 2000s but often spanning the artist’s career, given Popoff’s enthusiasm for capturing the catalogue histories of these rockers whenever he gets the chance. Lovers of rare and undivulged rock trivia will find many revelations inside of this stack of chat, interview which are further presented by genre and subgenre to ensure better fit with readers’ specific tastes.
So here we go with Popoff Archive – 1: Doom Metal, which was a blast to assemble because most of these interviewees (but not all!) were pretty cool and introspective types, able to articulate what they were doing, which was, of course, celebrating what Sabbath first wrought, but with new twists in all manner of direction, a bit in the ‘80s but mostly in the ‘90sand 2000s. And this was all happening within a music industry that didn’t care about doom and stoner rock or in fact, pretty much anything to do with heavy metal at the time that most of these interviews took place. Ergo, most of these bands were recording with feisty small and mid-sized labels, some of which specialized in this growing genre beginning in the mid-‘90s.
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236 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2016
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About the author
Martin Popoff
224 books247 followersAt approximately 7900 (with over 7000 appearing in his books), Martin has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned approximately 85 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock and record collecting. He was Editor-In-Chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada’s foremost metal publication for 14 years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, bravewords.com, lollipop.com and hardradio.com, with many record label band bios and liner notes to his credit as well. Additionally, Martin has been a regular contractor to Banger Films, having worked for two years as researcher on the award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, on the writing and research team for the 11-episode Metal Evolution and on the ten-episode Rock Icons, both for VH1 Classic. Additionally, Martin is the writer of the original metal genre chart used in Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey and throughout the Metal Evolution episodes. Martin currently resides in Toronto and can be reached through martinp@inforamp.net or www.martinpopoff.com.
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November 22, 2016
I wasn't sure what to expect, since this book is a series of often unrelated interviews, loosely linked through a genre. My favourite doom bands - Electric Wizard, Reverend Bizarre - aren't included in this book, although several interviews do mention Electric Wizard. And there are several bands here that I either don't know at all, or don't know that well.
That said, I found the interviews to be overall quite interesting. It was neat to have several interviews over the years with the same bands - Candlemass, Sentenced, Trouble - as well as with different members, and with bands that were related to the original ones. It made the other interviews feel like they were intermissions before we return to our main stories. It was interesting to see how attitudes change towards albums or periods in the band's history as time has gone on, or see how two different band members perceive the same albums or events.
A good read which I quite enjoyed. Hopefully the rest of the series will continue in the same vein.
That said, I found the interviews to be overall quite interesting. It was neat to have several interviews over the years with the same bands - Candlemass, Sentenced, Trouble - as well as with different members, and with bands that were related to the original ones. It made the other interviews feel like they were intermissions before we return to our main stories. It was interesting to see how attitudes change towards albums or periods in the band's history as time has gone on, or see how two different band members perceive the same albums or events.
A good read which I quite enjoyed. Hopefully the rest of the series will continue in the same vein.
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