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In the world of heavy metal, no other band have lived life to the fullest, stared death in the face so many times, battled addiction, warred within themselves and still emerged, unbowed with as much bloody-minded persistence as Black Sabbath.
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Chronologically, this updated biography deals with the band's mid 1990s formation in Iowa and reveals previously unknown facts about their origins, the author having tracked down and interviewed two founder members and the producers of their first demo. The also provided previously unpublished pictures of the band for this book. The book covers various personnel changes that have occurred over the years, their image (they wear masks and overalls) and their frenzied stage antics resulting in members injuring themselves. This edition brings the Slipknot story up to date detailing their activities in 2001 and 2002, including the release of their platinum alboum "Iowa" which topped the charts worldwide and produced several singles. The various members have guested on other artists' records and big selling side projects including "Stone Sour" and "Murderdolls".
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( Randall Rhoads, born in California in 1956 and cut down...)
Randall Rhoads, born in California in 1956 and cut down in his prime at the age of only 26, has been an immense influence on a whole generation of musicians in rock and metal. He first came to international prominence in 1979, when he was recruited from the cult metal band Quiet Riot to play with Ozzy Osbourne, who had been fired from Black Sabbath for his drink and drug addictions and was in urgent need of a co-writer to kickstart a solo career. How and why Ozzy and Randy went on to find enormous success is one of the key themes of Crazy Train, named after the first and most famous Osbourne/Rhoads co-composition. It was Randy's pioneering combination of neo-classical soloing, catchy riffage and unforgettable songwriting which propelled Ozzy. The two albums that Randy recorded with Quiet Riot and the two with Ozzy showcase the young guitarist's immense ability, although the full extent of his talent may never have been revealed. In 1982 he died in an air crash. The parallels between Crazy Train and the author's best-selling To Live Is To Die: The Life And Death Of Metallica's Cliff Burton (Jawbone 2009) are intentional and obvious. Both books deal with a musical prodigy who died tragically in his mid-20s; both men have a vast following and a profile which has risen in the years since their deaths; and both men have a large coterie of friends, family and associates prepared to tell their stories for the very first time.
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The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band Tool explores not only their uncompromising music but also their unsettling, self-made image based on mythological symbols and arcane theories. Now available in paperback. The quartet of master musicians - Maynard James Keenan, Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor and Adam Jones - emerged from the club scene in Los Angeles in 1990 alongside their friends Rage Against the Machine, grabbing the concept of heavy music and then completely redefining it. With a sixties-style commitment to art and agit-prop, they have now attained a level of artistic complexity and depth which makes their enduring success a miracle in today's culture of bland, corporate entertainment.They have received three Grammy awards and their rise to glory has been one of the stranger rock tales of our time. Joel McIver leaves no detail omitted as he delves into the mystery behind Tool's music.
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Slayer are much more than one of the world's biggest metal bands - they are a phenomenon. Winning a Grammy in 2007 after 25 years of uncompromising albums and a stage show that takes live aggression to its ultimate limit, the LA foursome have retained the respect of their critics and peers like no other contemporary band. Author Joel McIver explains how through their career they have extended the boundaries of thrash metal, providing impetus for the extreme metal wave that rose in the wake and won converts at every step; and, how they weathered the storms of controversy over their lyrics and image. He covers their tours with Slipknot in 2006 and Marilyn Manson in 2007.
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(Book). Sinister Urge is the first in-depth, career-spanning biography of heavy-metal musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie. Born Robert Cummings in 1965, Zombie is now as well known for his movies as he is for his music, which he has released and performed both as a solo artist and as part of his early band White Zombie. In both fields, he imbues his art with the vivid sense of macabre theater that has thrilled his millions of disciples since he and his band first emerged with Soul-Crusher in 1987. Although he has sold millions of albums and generated many more millions of dollars at the box office, Zombie has never taken the easy option or the predictable route. Indeed, while the music industry and many of his peers have fallen to their knees in the last decade or so, Zombie has found a new edge, his work undiluted by success or middle age. Drawing on original research and new interviews with bandmates and associates, Sinister Urge takes a detailed look at Zombie's challenging oeuvre, offering close analysis of his albums and films alongside tales of his life and work on and offstage.
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(Noticeable wear to cover and pages. May have some marking...)
Noticeable wear to cover and pages. May have some markings on the inside. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials.
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Featuring QR code connections to video links for every entry, Ultimate Rock Riffs offers quick access to 100 carefully selcted Youtube videos. The ultimate rock riffs are the ones that you recognize from the first chord or bar – they have immediate impact and always bring a smile to the face, they are the identity and the backbone of a rock song. Everyone has their opinions on the best-ever riffs, and there will never be a consensus – but we can have a go! This great little giftbook is the ideal stimulus to lively and impassioned debate about whether Deep Purple’s instantly familiar ’Smoke On The Water’ should take the crown or perhaps it seems obvious to you that it should be Cream’s ’Sunshine Of Your Love’; you may value something a little more eclectic in Rush’s ’Spirit Of Radio’ or feel the need to champion more contemporary whiz kids Muse with their ’Hysteria’ – with entries on over a hundred of the best-loved riffs, as well as our suggestions for a Top 100 list and a Top Riffing Guitarists list, from Hendrix to Page, and absorbing text alongside iconic images for each entry, you may not reach a conclusion but you’ll enjoy the musing.
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(A detailed reference to the various genres of extreme met...)
A detailed reference to the various genres of extreme metal music. The book is divided into six sections, discussing traditional metal alongside speed and thrash metal, death metal, black metal, doom metal and other genres. It also profiles individual bands.
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(For over two decades Metallica have been testing the boun...)
For over two decades Metallica have been testing the boundaries of speed, heaviness and volume with their music, selling over 85 million albums in the process and becoming one of the biggest musical acts in American history. Their early years were a blur of drunken club dates and endless tours. Later they became one of the world's most respected extreme metal acts despite the death of their bass player Cliff Burton. They have engaged in a legal tussle with Napster and go through rehab and therapy to emerge from the other side a new and wiser band. As well as telling Metallica's story with a level of detail and eyewitness veracity which has never been attempted before, Joel McIver has exposed the biggest myths about the band and told the simple truth about how they originated and what the real facts are. He has interviewed over 75 prominent musicians, producers, writers, band associates and Metallica fan members to get to the truth behind what really happened in the world of Hetfield, Ulrich and co.
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(Now features over 400 acts including Grammy-winning death...)
Now features over 400 acts including Grammy-winning death metal bands In Flames and Opeth, plus the first death metal influenced chart-toppers, Slipknot.
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Coming this fall, the first-ever official authorized biography of Cannibal Corpse. Written by Joel McIver, author of Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica and biographies on Black Sabbath, Slayer, Slipknot, and Queens Of The Stone Age, Bible Of Butchery - Cannibal Corpse: The Official Biography contains over 150 pages loaded with photos from the band's collection, stories from each band member, and insights into what makes the world's most successful death metal band tick.
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( Founder member and guitarist Tom Morello has given aut...)
Founder member and guitarist Tom Morello has given author Joel McIver his blessing to write this biography. Rage Against the Machine has sold 20 million albums worldwide, and won 2 Grammy Awards. Joel McIver has given a clear and unbiased analysis of the group’s stance on a wide range of issues as well as the chronology of their career.
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An artist more opposed to the plastic radio divas much in evidence today in modern R&B could hardly be imagined. Her history and musical roots are charted in this detailed biography.
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The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists is a book with a mission. Since we emerged from the primeval ooze, mankind has laboured under the mistaken impression that hard rock is heavy metal and heavy metal is hard rock. Author Joel McIver sets out to rectify this tragic situation with the definitive list of guitar warriors: one hundred axe-slingers who don't bother with show-off rock riffage and power ballads--they play METAL. Specifically thrash metal, death metal, power metal, doom metal and the traditional heavy metal that fans have known and loved since Tony Iommi first placed his industrially-truncated fingertips on a power chord back in 1970. In this book, metal guitar expert McIver selects the most accomplished guitarists from the four generations of metal to date and places them in order according to their technical proficiency, or their pioneering ideas--or both. Whether you're into the modern metal of Trivium, Avenged Sevenfold and Dragonforce, classic 80s and 90s extreme metal from Metallica, Slayer and Pantera, or the movement's original pioneers Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, you'll love this book--and from the moment you lay eyes on No. 100, you won't put The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists down until you've gone all the way to No. 1, the most gifted metal guitarist of all time!
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The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band Tool explores not only their uncompromising music but also their unsettling, self-made image based on mythological symbols and arcane theories. Author Joel McIver leaves no detail omitted as he delves into the mystery behind Tool's music.
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A comprehensive A-Z of over 100 rap-rock, rap-metal and funk-metal bands, including acts from the hip-hop and hardcore punk branches of metal.
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University of Edinburgh.
The best-known of his books is the bestselling Justice Foreign All: The Truth About Metallica, first published in 2004 and appearing in nine languages since then McIver"s other works include biographies of Black Sabbath, Slayer, Ice Cube and Queens Of The Stone Age. His writing also appears in newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Rolling Stone, and he is an occasional guest on British Broadcasting Corporation and commercial radio and television Since 2012, McIver has also been the Editor of the magazine Bass Guitar.
McIver has written 27 English-language books since 1999, with at least 70 more editions available in various other languages.
In the introduction to Neil Daniels" 2009 book All Pens Blazing, veteran writer Martin Popoff described McIver as "probably the top scribe in the world". In a review in April 2012, Classic Rock magazine labelled McIver "by some distance Britain"s most prolific hard rock/metal author".
As well as writing his own books, McIver also co-writes the autobiographies of rock musicians. The first of these was the memoir of sometime Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes, published in 2011.
McIver is also the co-writer of books by Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy) and Megadeth bass player David Ellefson, both of which were published in 2013.
A collaboration with Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock appeared in 2014, followed by the official biography of the world"s biggest death metal band, Cannibal Corpse. McIver is an alumnus of Backwell School and the University of Edinburgh.
(Chronologically, this updated biography deals with the ba...)
(In the world of heavy metal, no other band have lived lif...)
(For over two decades Metallica have been testing the boun...)
(The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band T...)
(The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band T...)
( Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machin...)
( Randall Rhoads, born in California in 1956 and cut down...)
(Now features over 400 acts including Grammy-winning death...)
(Featuring QR code connections to video links for every en...)
(A comprehensive A-Z of over 100 rap-rock, rap-metal and f...)
(Featuring QR code connections to video links for every en...)
( The seminal British band Motörhead have been rocking si...)
( Few pioneers are philosophical, liberal, intelligent an...)
(An artist more opposed to the plastic radio divas much in...)
( Founder member and guitarist Tom Morello has given aut...)
(Slayer are much more than one of the world's biggest meta...)
(Coming this fall, the first-ever official authorized biog...)
(A detailed reference to the various genres of extreme met...)
( The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists is a book with a mis...)
(Noticeable wear to cover and pages. May have some marking...)
((Book). Sinister Urge is the first in-depth, career-spann...)
