Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0380811278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Contrary to popular belief, headbangers and the music they love are more alive than ever. From heavy metal's roots in the work of breakthrough groups such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin to MTV hair metal, courtroom controversies, black metal murderers and Ozzfest, Sound of the Beast offers the final word on this elusive, extreme, and far-reaching form of music.. The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more. Featuring interviews with members of the biggest bands in the genre, Sound of the Beast gives an overview of the past 30-plus years of heavy metal, delving into the personalities of those who created it. More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete heavy metal album, its founder, Ozzy Osbourne, is the star of The Osbournes, TV's favourite new reality show. Yet there has never been a comprehensive book on the history of heavy metal - until now. Everything is here, from the bootlegging beginnings of fans like Lars Ulrich (future founder of Metallica) to the sold-out stadiums and personal excesses of the biggest groups
"The Shotgun Approach" according to oldtaku. I read this book back to back with David Konow's _Bang Your Head_. While Konow focuses more in-depth on the grandaddies of metal and the MTV bands, _Sound of the Beast_ has more of a shotgun approach, attempting to comprehensively cover each sub-genre. So you get the chapter devoted to speed and thrash, the chapter on (old-style) power metal, the chapter on death metal, the chapter on the PMRC, etc. He seems to cover the salient points, though you will quite often want more depth on a particular subject - it's the enternal tradeoff of depth vs. breadth of coverage. Luckily, y. Flawed, but still probably the best overall book out there If you're looking for a good overall book that hits the highlights of heavy metal and gives at least a shout-out to most, if not all, of its genres, this one is probably your best bet. Some of the other books I've read that purported to be histories of Heavy Metal were hardly comprehensive and instead focused on one scene, for example the 80s California "hair bands" and their infighting and gossip. Others make no bones about being an exploration of one genre such as glam metal or Swedish black metal or whatever. Bottom line, this book comes closest to being what it says it is. DONT BOTHER READING !!!! Orlando Baez Ok first off, prior to reading this book, I would say about literally half the books ONLY talks about Metallica and the other half about other bands. If you expect this to be an extensive in depth review or story in Everything that is metal in the last 30+ Years prepaer to be Dissapointed. True it does cover Alot of ground, and it does cover alot of genres of Metal which is good. And it will educate you on little things here and there that you probably didnt know. All of that is the positive things on this book. Unfortunately there are More Negatives than positive. It is clea
94 b&w photos, and 16-page color insert not seen by PW. There is little argument that heavy metal began in earnest with Black Sabbath (though the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is considered by some to be the first heavy metal song), and Christe holds to convention and begins his metal timeline in early 1970. Following in the jamming, bluesy tradition of the Yard Birds and Cream, Sabbath (then called Earth) wrote "Black Sabbath"-a song that changed not only the band's name, but the face of rock and roll. Each chapter contains helpful "genre boxes" giving a brief description of the style (e.g., Power Metal, Death Metal and Nu Metal). . If Christe is to be faulted, it is on the grounds of hero worship: he's a metal fan, scribe (a music writer living in Brooklyn) and practitioner (in a digital metal band