AVULSED Book About To Be Released
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THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER! The book documenting the first 35 years of AVULSED's history is about to see the light of day!
It has taken almost a year of intense work, gathering information, digging through memories, recovering photographs and searching through the past to reconstruct a story that began in August 1991 and, against all odds, is still being written today. Countless afternoons and late nights have been devoted to writing, reviewing and shaping this 564-page monster, narrated in the first person from the perspective of Dave Rotten, AVULSED's founding member and the only one who has been there for absolutely every day of the band's existence, taking part in all its recordings, shows and tours, and getting to know every musician who has ever passed through its ranks.
"STILL ROTTEN : 35 Years of Avulsed History"
The result is a substantial hardcover volume, written in Spanish, featuring black pages with white text and almost 200 photographs documenting AVULSED's journey from its very first lineup as a trio right up to the present day. This is a story told from the inside, without filters or second-hand accounts, packed with anecdotes, personal experiences and episodes ranging from well-known events to stories never told before, as well as others that have become distorted over time. Because a band's real history doesn't always match the stories told about it.
Starting from absolutely nothing, with no previous experience and everything to learn, AVULSED has travelled a road its members could never have imagined in the early days. More than three decades of underground Death Metal, recordings, shows, tours around the world, obstacles, madness and experiences have made the band part of extreme Metal history.
AN INITIAL PRINT RUN OF JUST 300 COPIES! The book will be presented exclusively at the four concerts AVULSED will play between December 4th and 7th. Fans attending these anniversary shows will have priority when it comes to purchasing the book, giving them the opportunity to get their copy before anyone else and secure one of these extremely limited editions. Book-signing sessions will also take place at every show. Also, there will be shirts with the book artwork.
If any copies remain after the tour, they will go on sale from December 9th through the FULL OF METAL online store: www.fullofmetal.com
This tour will be no ordinary celebration. We're commemorating the 30th anniversary of our debut album, "Eminence in Putrescence", which we'll perform in its entirety live. And, as if that weren't enough, we'll also be presenting its new special 2-CD edition, featuring the original album alongside a complete new recording with an absolutely brutal sound!
If you want to be part of this historic moment, get your hands on the book before anyone else and witness the complete performance of an album that helped shape Spanish Death Metal, don't leave it until the last minute. Get your tickets now! Some shows could be approaching sold-out status!
AVULSED will be joined on this tour by German legends FLESHCRAWL and Belgian wrecking crew CARNATION, delivering an extreme Death Metal assault organized by MANGUALES EXTREME METAL UNION.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: https://mangual.es
35 YEARS OF HISTORY. 564 PAGES. 300 COPIES. FOUR SHOWS.
See you in December!
Next, Dave Rotten explains the reasons behind the book "Still Rotten: 35 Years of Avulsed History":
"I’d been thinking about writing this book for more than ten years, but between albums, tours, concerts, the record label and all the other projects that kept coming up, I could never find the right moment. After more than 35 years at the helm of AVULSED, I felt the time had finally come to tell this story from the inside, just as I’ve experienced it.
We started out in 1991 as a bunch of inexperienced kids, with no contacts, no backing and absolutely no idea how far our overwhelming passion for Death Metal would take us. We never imagined we’d end up touring much of the world, sharing stages with bands we admired and reaching heights that seemed completely unimaginable back then. But none of it came for free. Behind it all lie thousands of miles, hundreds of gigs, albums, sacrifices, disappointments, conflicts, lineup changes and moments when everything nearly went to shit.
This book isn’t about romanticizing our journey or patting myself on the back. It’s not about settling scores either. It’s my personal account, told without filters or beating around the bush, with all its highs and lows. There are plenty of things that have never been told, episodes that have been distorted and experiences that are part of AVULSED’s real history. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell what I lived through and how I experienced it.
Above all, this is a book about perseverance, commitment and the ability to get back on your feet when it seems there’s nothing left to do. AVULSED has been through some very tough times, has come close to disappearing and has had to rebuild itself almost from the ground up. And yet, here we are.
I’ve never seen Death Metal as a career or as a product that needs to adapt to market demands. To me, it has always been a way of life. We’ve kept going because we wanted to, because we still feel the same passion and because giving up has never been an option.
This is the story of how we started from nothing and made it much further than we ever imagined. A true story, without the makeup, showing that surviving for more than three decades in the underground isn’t a matter of luck, but of hard work, sacrifice and an almost pathological stubbornness to never give up".
