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The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal: Every String-Shredding Style, from Death Metal to Classic Rock
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Product Description
With more than 300 artist biographies and band stories, this is the essential heavy metal companion. Additional features include dozens of boxouts and sidebars on topics as diverse and disturbing as Weird Hobbies, Christian Metal, the Japanese Scene, Weird Day Jobs, the Eastern European Scene, Hardcore Crossover and Drummer Jokes. From Alien Ant Farm to Biohazard – and yes, all the way to ZZ Top – the Rough Guide to Heavy Metal is the ultimate brain-warping A to Z. If you love metal, this is the book for you.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #131712 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Essi Berelian has been a freelance music writer for ten years, and was a contributor to the first edition of the Rough Guide to Rock. He has contributed countless reviews and features to magazines, books and websites, including Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Plan B, Front, Total Film, metal-is.com, playlouder.com, and bol.com.
Customer Reviews
Its okay...
Like most of its competitors, this book does a certain job very well, but falls down whenever it trys to become something more. If you are looking for a simple A to Z of most things in this week's Kerrang then, yeah, you'll spend far worse £12 - if, however, you want a truly comprehensive guide to metal, if you have more than the most basic of knowledge of the genre, or if you find the idea of the Darkness being lumped in with your heroes, then avoid this like the plague. I particularly dislike about the review copy I've been lent, the fact that it is so predictably presented - some imagination would have been really useful!
worth buying
It really could be too easy to be critical over this book. It is what is: 'The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal'. It is in my humble opinion a well researched guide, nicely presented, great fun and nostalgic.
A rocking great read ! ! !
This has to be the best and most comprehensive heavy metal book I have ever had the pleasure to read!
It is informative, yet fun, and is wrapped up with a great writing Style. I love it!
Berelian obviously knows his rock - great stuff!
