Frontman Erik Danielsson of Swedish black metallers WATAIN has contributed an impassioned foreword to the upcoming 744-page hardcover book “Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries”, an anthology and memoir by Norway’s extreme metal godfather Jon Kristiansen.

Danielsson previously contributed to Slayer XX, the final issue of the legendary Slayer mag, released in 2010. The musician also appears in the “Metalion” book’s gallery of color portrait photographs shot by Kristiansen.

Says Danielsson: “The first issue I got was Slayer X, and it was a monumental experience of being thrust into the very depths of the mad universe that was the black/death metal underground… Dead or alive, Slayer mag will stand as a synonym for that unnameable, bloodcurdling feeling of solemn secrecy and evil genius that this movement has bestowed upon us.”

Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, “Metalion” includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer mag, 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 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.

“The greatest heavy metal story ever told” will be available June 6, 2011, wherever books are sold, and is available for preorder now with two bonus limited patches from Bazillion Points Books, “America’s smallest but heaviest book publisher.”

For more information, visit www.metalionbook.com. Source: Blabbermouth.net