Product Description

A metal encyclopedia that provides detailed profiles and discographies for the major heavy metal artists, and a selection of other niche acts from around the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180401 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 495 pages

About the Author
Garry Sharpe-Young is an internationally recognised expert on rock music. He is the author of more than a dozen books on heavy metal and rock, and since 2001 has managed the constantly expanding website, www.rockdetector.com, the definitive on-line information resource for all loud rock/metal music. He maintains good relationships with all major metal acts, and their record companies and management. Joel McIver is an author, journalist, book and magazine editor and album compiler. He is an authority on rock music, and has written many books, including a best-selling biography of Metallica, Justice For All.

Customer Reviews

Absolutely "The Definitive Guide"
This book is absolutely fantastic in accomplishing it's aim to inform, educate and interest all those in search of metal knowledge.

The history is absolutely spot on and every significant metal sub-genre and artist you can think of is mentioned in here with a more than adequate history and background on every one of them.

I was also particularly pleased to see that the serious pioneers of each stage in metal's history (i.e Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Bathory, Pantera) are all given a very hefty covering in which there is often a considerable number of qoutes or interviews of the band members about their music, life and so on.

The layout and set up of the each section, page and the book in general is all very user friendly, easily understandable and coherent and is more or less chronological.

Garry Sharpe Young is clearly a huge metal enthusiast as you would expect and the effort that has gone into compiling this is phenomenal as he has clearly done some serious travelling, research and pulled many strings to get hold of every metal star he can. As a renowned journalist in the music world, he more than does the genre justice.

I referred to it a huge amount in my essay: "The Journey of Metal as a Music Genre" as it was easily the most informative, precise and in depth work on the market and still appears to be.

If there is any question about any element of metal history at all, then this is without doubt the Literature you are in need of.

A fantastic read.