What if...Satan was real in the way we are all real? Had his own place, enjoyed a drink, some company and his favourite sounds? What if he had his own jukebox stocked with 100 slammin' sound files and we all dropped by one night to see his current selection? This book is the best guess of what we might find on The Devil's Jukebox. There's fun, torture, surprises and enough in the way of the well-known and utterly obscure to get anyone with any opinion on music's dark side arguing, Googling and acquiring. We wouldn't recommend reading the pages inside this cover if you're easily offended, or sensitive to sudden shocks. For everyone else this is a searing spotlight on the hot, hateful, horrible and occasionally humorous hits from Hell. A world in which utter abnormality will snag you the #1 spot and every barrel is lovingly scraped for the festering remnants of the sounds the righteous rejected long ago. From the darkest metal to the most deranged samples they're here, along with several surprises by way of a few kiddie-friendly sounds subsequently used in ways their creators never imagined some misguided attempts at recording hits. The Devil's jukebox is a jukebox like no other.

本書は単なる音楽ガイドではない。「サタンの実存」を狂言回しに据え、音楽が持つ禁忌の力と人間の深淵を抉り出す知的な冒険譚である。100の選曲を通じて描かれるのは、社会の倫理から零れ落ちた異端の旋律が放つ魔力だ。著者らは読者を地獄の席へ誘い、聴覚的な恐怖と法悦の境界線をスリリングに提示している。 聖なるものが拒絶した音源の数々は、剥き出しの真実を語りかけてくる。悪趣味とユーモアが交錯する語り口は常識を揺さぶり、芸術の狂気を再定義させるだろう。ページをめくるたびに襲いかかる衝撃は、あなたの感性を極限まで研ぎ澄ますはずだ。地獄の底から響く、美しくも悍ましい調べにぜひ身を委ねてほしい。