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South of Heaven: A History of New Zealand Extreme Metal

Much more than just Satan, gore, and loud guitars

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It isn’t accommodating and it definitely isn’t timid, but as the bands explain, extreme metal is much more than just Satan, gore, and loud guitars.

South of Heaven: A History of New Zealand Extreme Metal travels back to the birth of this country’s most challenging and confrontational music scene in the early ’90s, and visits New Zealand extreme metal in 2014, where a hidden realm of homegrown bands reap worldwide acclaim.

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South of Heaven is presented by Craig Hayes, produced by Craig Hayes and Zen Yates-Fill, and engineered by William Saunders for RNZ National.