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Lesser Gods is pleased to announce the official release of My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory – a memoir written by Agnostic Front vocalist Roger Miret with Jon Wiederhorn (also known for his book entitled Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal and his contributions to Rolling Stone, Loudwire, and Vice’s Noisey, among many more).

The book chronicles Miret’s life surrounding his career as the vocalist of Agnostic Front, a leader in the New York Hardcore scene, and the significant events in his upbringing that led him to where he is now. Though he has a colorful musical history replete with trouble and mischief, the biography focuses on Miret’s trials and tribulations growing up in 1980s New York City.

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Born in Cuba, Miret fled with his family to the US to escape the Castro regime. Through vivid language and graphic details, he recounts growing up in a strange new land with a tyrannical stepfather and the roles that poverty and violence played in shaping the grit that became critical to his survival. In his teen years, he finds himself squatting in abandoned buildings with unforgettably eccentric runaways and victims of similar childhood trauma. With like-minded misfits, he helps pioneer a new musical genre but with money scarce and commercial success impossible, he turns to running drugs to support his family and winds up in prison. It’s the ultimate test of his toughness and perseverance that eventually sets him on a path towards redemption.

Additionally, fans can read an exclusive outtake from My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glorya foreword written by Lars Frederiksen from Rancid  – on Loudwire now, here: LINK.

To hear how the story ends, pick up a copy of My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory when it hits shelves and online stores on August 29th, 2017 via Lesser Gods. Pre-orders are available now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. For more information, please visit: http://www.lessergodsbooks.com/book/my-riot.

About Lesser Gods:
Lesser Gods is the first U.S. imprint of Amsterdam-based Overamstel Publishers. Based in New York City, Lesser Gods publishes books by and about musicians, across a variety of genres such as A Vulgar Display Of Pantera, Finding Joseph I: An Oral History of H.R. from Bad Brains, So Let It Be Written: The Biography of Metallica’s James Hetfield, Color Me Kanye: The Greatest Unauthorized Kanye West Coloring Book of All Time, Lighters in the Sky: The All-Time Greatest Concerts, 1960-2016, Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N’ Roses and many more.

To learn more about Lesser Gods, please visit:

Website: http://www.lessergodsbooks.com
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