French Heavy metal webzine Métal Intégral are self-releasing the new edition of the French Heavy metal anthology, Made In France 1978-2008 - Hard And Heavy.

According to the webzine, the 2008 edition will be the most complete overview of the history of French Heavy metal, covering 30 years of French-made metal. The anthology contains 120 pages, featuring more than 1000 bands. Over 250 LP's or EP vinyl, 290 7'' records and 1500 CD's and EP's are pictured and discussed.

Made In France only covers the traditional genres - heavy metal, hard rock, power metal and progressive metal from 1978 til 2008 - while there's no room for death, black, doom, thrash and nu metal. Some bands featured in the book include Resistance, Still Square, Salhem, Lonewolf, Blackrain, Ice Scream, Blasphème, Holy Cross, Satan Jokers, ADX, Excalibur, Wolf's Gang, Mr Jack, Heavylution and many more.

Printed in an 80's fanzine set-up style, Made In France contains tons of black and white pictures of demo tapes, LP, SP and CD cover artwork; interview excerpts; exclusive pictures from the Explosion Metalliques Festival from February 1985 (feat. Vulcain, Attentat Rock, Nightmare and Bronx); a complete list of all 80's bands that recorded a video clip; and a French Metal historical overview, fully updated since the 2004 edition of the anthology.

Also an English edition of the book will be released.

A photo preview and all info about this release can be found at this location.

Source:

metal-integral.com