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'Metalion' Book-Release Exhibition Brings Extreme Metal Photo Portraits To New York Gallery

June 29, 2011

Now through July 7, 2011, powerHouse Arena (37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY) presents an exhibition by Norwegian author/photographer Jon Kristiansen in honor of the release of his massive book "Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries" (Bazillion Points Books). The gallery showcases Jon's arresting visual work with the infamous Slayer mag, and displays dozens of stark portraits of members of CARCASS, DISSECTION, CELTIC FROST, TRIPTYKON, GORGOROTH, WATAIN, DARKTHRONE, SWANS, THORR'S HAMMER, among others.

A video walkthrough can be seen below.

"Photography is my lifeline, and I put a lot of thought into every picture I take," says Kristiansen. "They are done with love and passion and respect. My camera has become the focal point that Slayer mag had been for so many years."

Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, "Metalion" includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer mag: Slayer 1 through Slayer XX, plus the precursor Live Wire zine spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life's story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to metal party beast to world-weary metal survivor. The book also features over 100 rare photographs, including two color sections and a portrait gallery of photographs taken by Kristiansen himself. Members of AUTOPSY, AT THE GATES, SUNN 0))), DARKTHRONE, and WATAIN have contributed forewords to the book.

Signed copies of "the greatest heavy metal story ever told" are available for preorder now with two bonus embroidered patches from Bazillion Points Books, "America's smallest but heaviest book publisher."

For more information, visit www.metalionbook.com.

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