"The entire book is about violence and anarchy as part of the hardcore punk culture. This could antagonize and rile up the general population."

Damon W. Root | August 18, 2008

Feral House, the great West Coast publisher specializing in serial killers, death metal bands, occult worship, and other frequently unsavory subjects, has apparently gone too far for the Colorado Department of Corrections. As Warden Kevin L. Milyard explains in a document that Feral House helpfully posted on its blog last month, their book American Hardcore: A Tribal History (2001) has been banned from all Colorado prisons for depicting violence, substance abuse, "hatred of law enforcement and other races," and plenty more where that came from.

While I'm sure "Banned by the Colorado Department of Corrections" will look great as a blurb on the new edition, I'm a little surprised that this particular volume got the boot. Sure, there are some R-rated bits, but this is an oral history of punk music, not The Anarchist Cookbook.

Back in 2002, Senior Editor Brian Doherty sat down with Feral House founder Adam Parfrey to discuss Islamic extremism, The Satanic Bible, the free market, and much more. Check that out here.