Mondo Death: With Blood and Guts pulls back the curtain on one of music’s most extreme and misunderstood genres. Blending insightful analysis with unfiltered interviews, it explores how death metal transforms chaos into structure, aggression into expression, and darkness into something deeply human. This is not just a look at the sound, but at the driving forces behind it: the relentless creativity, existential questioning, and visceral emotion that define the scene. Across its pages, readers will encounter the genre’s most influential voices as they reflect on themes of death, decay, and the raw truths of existence. From philosophical underpinnings to artistic vision, Mondo Death is an uncompromising journey into the heart of death metal, where noise becomes narrative, and brutality becomes a form of transcendence. Mondo Death II includes related genres like death doom, deathcore, melodic death metal, post-death, grindcore and crossovers with thrash and black metal, including over 200 interviews with Imperial Triumphant, Napalm Death, Today is the Day, Black Dahlia Murder, Goatwhore, Carcass, Xibalba, InFlames, Car Bomb, Phobia, The Secret, Cult of Luna, Crescent, Illdisposed, Aeon, Amon Amarth, Igorrr and more