Ryan Bartek - Discography & Book Collection

Ryan Bartek - Discography & Book Collection

This is the full music discography & book collection of USA writer, journalist & musician Ryan Bartek. Included are the non-fiction books on the modern day counterculture 'THE BIG SHINY PRISON (Volume One)' 2009, 'FORTRESS EUROPE (The Big Shiny Prison Vol II)' 2012, as well as the debut anthology 'THE SILENT BURNING' (2005).

Also included are albums from genre-warping metal/grindpunk act AKA MABUS ('Lord of The Black Sheep' 2006), grindcore mercenaries SASQUATCH AGNOSTIC ('Complete Mammlograpy' 2010), and Bartek's antifolk/acoustic one-man act as JACK CASSADY ('The Real Man In Black' 2010 & 'ANTiVOLK' 2011).

'THE BIG SHINY PRISON (Volume One)' is a nonfiction road book/music journalism expose which defies all conventions. 'THE BIG SHINY PRISON' is what Bartek has called his 'Great American Anti-Novel.' This book exists in the territory of Jack Kerouac's 'On The Road,' Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and Hunter S. Thompson's “Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas.' This modern version of such writing follows Ryan Bartek as he travels through the American counterculture in 2007, forty years after '1967's Summer of Love.' Bartek reveals a postmodern, dystopian vision of that counterculture over 293 days of travel and face to face interviews with a number of legends in the underground community – even USA president BARACK OBAMA makes a guest appearance! 'THE BIG SHINY PRISON (Volume One)' covers all forms of extreme metal, punk rock, industrial, experimental, rock & electronic and features appearances/interviews with members of Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, DWARVES, Millions of Dead Cops, Repulsion, Psyopus, Abysmal Dawn, Cephalic Carnage, Kylesa, Ludicra, RATT, Lesbian, HIMSA, Job For A Cowboy, Atheist, Sol Evil, Impaled, Light This City, PHOBIA, Kettle Cadaver, Scorched Earth, Foxy Shazam, In Memorium, Duff’s Brooklyn, EXITIUM, Angelic Process, AxCx, Blood Stained Dusk, Screaming Mechanical Brain, Genghis Tron, Intronaut, Downtown Brown, Solger, Friends of Dennis Wilson, PHALLUS, Melechesh, Vile, STALAGGH, OCTAGON, The Gracchi, My Uncle The Wolf, Salt Lick, Amish Noise, 7000 Dying Rats, The Jet City Fixx, Waco Jesus, Suicide Holiday, Vertigo Venus, Severed Savior, Kill The Client, Dreaming Dead, They Live, Quinta Essentia, Whorehouse of Representatives, The Mathematicians, Anal Pudding, Disgorge, AKA MABUS, Jack Cassady & Sasquatch Agnostic.

'FORTRESS EUROPE (The Big Shiny Prison Vol II)' is the sequel to 2009's 'THE BIG SHINY PRISON (Volume One)' and chronicles the authors journey through the European Counterculture in 2011. Bartek reveals a postmodern, dystopian vision of the European counterculture while interviewing a number of living legends face to face and drudging through the gutters of society. 'FORTRESS EUROPE (The Big Shiny Prison Vol. II)' covers all forms of extreme metal, punk rock, industrial, experimental, rock & electronic and features appearances/interviews 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/60's radical Mr. John Sinclair + many more.

'THE SILENT BURNING' was written for the sole purpose of brutal self therapy, 'THE SILENT BURNING' is a take no prisoners account of bi-polar depression from the grim bowels of Detroit. Created during supreme hopelessness (circa 1998-2002), 'THE SILENT BURNING' is a ruthless anti-speech that supremely capsizes the Post-Cobain/Pre-Columbine 'Dark Generation' who soon grew into adulthood watching 'Fight Club' one too many times. Somewhere between 'The Wall,' 'The Downward Spiral' & every death metal album imaginable, 'THE SILENT BURNING' is a nexus of black humor that is essentially a mammoth poem fragmented into a mosaic of vignettes, soliloquies, dream narratives, journal entries, poems, & misanthropic rants.

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