FORTRESS EUROPE (The Big Shiny Prison Vol. II) chronicles author Ryan Bartek's travels of Europe and its many fringe & alternative cultures. This genre-defying work features hundreds of face-to-face interviews with a number of legends in extreme metal, punk rock, industrial, experimental, rock, as well as many other alternative cultures in Europe today. Less a "music book" and more a tribute to the Beat Generation, "Fortress Europe" combines the classic autobiographical road novel with Bartek's self-styled "extreme journalism" to present this unique travel book of European Counterculture."Fortress Europe" is the sequel to 2009's USA travel book "The Big Shiny Prison" and 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, FondleCorpse, Excavated, Primordial, Splitter, Weltbrand, Pyramido, Black Breath, Ingurgitating Oblivion, El Schlong, Spacemen 3 & legendary Detroit writer John Sinclair + more.
- | Author: Ryan Bartek
- | Publisher: Anomie Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 16, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 358 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0692628436
- | ISBN-13: 9780692628430