Black Heart Metal Monster

What do a grave robbery, a fiendish invocation, a coveted 7", a feral moose and a piece of s*** wheelchair have in common?  A house made of tainted flesh, of course!  Pulsing with blood and driven by a black beating heart, savage revenge is on the warpath.  Brutal, grisly and wickedly entertaining, this book is pure metal.

This black metal-immersive short horror work is an entertaining romp of ick, creeping horror (for the characters) and humor. Black metal aficionados may spot some real world events and elements in "Monster", which further injects believability and impressive focus into this worth-owning novella.

Black Metal Horror is a great idea. This is a very entertaining short story. The characters are fun and act just like metal heads around the world. The story falls in the satanic ritual realm in the black metal world. The band really worships the dark Prince and they get their wish when one of their band members dies or gets sacrificed. A fun short story.

I really enjoyed this book. It’s short at 74 pages, but the writing is so punchy and tightly packed in that it feels like a much longer story. The description is innovative, fast, and at times funny, and is rather like having a head full of iron filings and printer’s ink, to read.It’s about a Norwegian black metal band back in the day whose bass player dies on stage. The band’s manager, Tabitha, takes a disliking to this state of affairs and decides to do something about it. Enter satanic ritual; the eventual result of which brought to mind scenes from the Dr. Who story The Claws of Axos. There’s black metal music, blood, drugs, Christians, pine trees, snow, communal living, weapons, tight trousers, boobs, candles, and black metal chicanery. It’s rambunctious, ramfuntious, and the book cover feels like bondage rubber… so I’m told.I must admit the story contains subtle points which make me wonder if it is inspired in anyway by the ‘bust up’ between notorious Norwegian black metal funsters Varg Vikernes and Euronymous. The time frame is right. Maybe I’m just being paranoid.

Michael Faun's BLACK HEART METAL MONSTER is a surreal and high-voltage dose of pulpy black metal horror. Imagine Edward Lee caught in a haunted jam-room of full of speakers blasting Darkthrone loud enough to conjure whatever evil sludge lurks in the bowels of the earth. Let it rip. The prose is sharp and detailed in just the right ways to keep the story tense, but what really brought this book to life for me was the overall metal band atmosphere that Faun brings to life and the originality of the black metal world in which we find ourselves. I went searching for a dark blast of metal horror and I found it. And it consumed me.