Music-Genres & Styles-Heavy Metal

This multi-disciplinary edited collection explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English, including Yiddish, Latin, Russian, Austrian German, Spanish and Italian. The volume features fascinating chapters on the role of ancient language in heavy metal, the significance of...

""Music For The Millions: The Encyclopedia Of Musical Masterpieces"" is a comprehensive guide to the greatest musical compositions of all time. Written by David Ewen, a renowned music critic and historian, the book covers a wide range of genres and styles, including classical, jazz,...

Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb, is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. From local underground bands in Detroit, Michigan to bands in Puerto Rico...

Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions is an exploration of women and heavy music and the ways in which women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh, musicking mothers themselves, largely employ an ethnographic lens, foregrounded in powerful...

A curious music journalist sets out to discover the truth behind a mysterious black metal outfits propensity for putting on live shows that end in tragedy and disaster. World of Bones are black metal local heroes. Instead of focusing on just the girls and...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Purveyors of "pure American death metal," these VA metalcore kings don't disappoint on their 2006 CD. Our songbook features note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all 11 drop-D delights, including the hit single "Redneck" and: Again We Rise * Descending * Pathetic...

While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on...

ZAKK WYLDE: UNTOLD STORYBerserker Rising - Faith, Fury, and the Guitar That Wouldn't Stay QuietThis is the uncompromising, raw story of Zakk Wylde, one of heavy music's last true icons. Forget the rock star façade; prepare for the intense journey of a small-town kid...

From the same author, the sequel to the acclaimed EDDIE MUST DIE: a new adventure for Andrew Briggs and Iron Maiden. Awarded 5-Star by Reader's Favorite USA. "You won't be able to put it down!" (from the foreword by Linda HARRIS) More than a...

This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music. Through the music, imagery and discourse surrounding one of the most innovative and commercially successful rock bands ever, Susan Fast probes such issues as constructions of gender and sexuality,...

Author: Greg PratoISBN-13: 9798273563179Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2025Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

A look at rock and metal through the decades - includes over 700 amazing facts and trivia.Dive into the world of rock and metal, taking you through the key moments in music history. Learn about The Rise of British Invasion Bands and the Punk...

Hand-signed by the legendary Iron Maiden guitarist, Adrian Smith.Adrian Smith got hooked on fishing as a child growing up in East London, plundering ponds and bomb craters on the Hackney Marshes for newts and sticklebacks, and catching perch from the Grand Union Canal while...

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial dance music, thrash metal and hardcore punk. Typically using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Explore this heavy metal genre in-depth with this guide. Explore the artists, albums,...

During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for fans around the world. In Metal Rules the Globe, ethnographers and some of the foremost authorities in the burgeoning field of metal studies analyze...

Heavy Metal: The Story in Pictures is a colorful guide to this complex but enormously popular subject, including a look at festivals, fans, and the heavy metal lifestyle. Over 350 photographs feature heavy metal's cutting-edge bands on stage--with some candid behind-the-scenes shots, too. Each...

SOMETIMES YOU BREAK THE INTERNET--AND SOMETIMES THE INTERNET BREAKS YOU! AT LAST--THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIRAL HOAX SO INSANE IT COULD ONLY BE TOLD AS A COMIC BOOK! From the honestly pretty impressive mind of multi-hyphenate writer-comedian-actor-musician Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes) and breakout...

From the Beatles' 'White Album' in 1968 to Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 1973, this eclectic group of records had a huge influence on the prevailing pop culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s - and making the Top 40 and...

This book unveils the vibrant and thriving world of Peruvian metal. It brings together a collection of Peruvian scholars, providing a long-overdue spotlight on a musical realm often overlooked in the international conversation.Author: José Ignacio López Ramírez GastónISBN-10: 1666929751ISBN-13: 9781666929751Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2023Pages:...

In 1993, in the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, the heaviest band in the world was born: Electric Wizard. Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, the band inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves...

Currently in their fifth decade as recording and touring artists, British hard rock and heavy metal legends Iron Maiden rose to prominence in the 1980s, battled their way through the challenging 1990s, and returned to global mega-success in the 2000s and beyond.This book charts...

THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian. Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band,...

What is special about Morbid Angel's records?None other than Chris Reifert is the drummer on Death's debut album "Scream Bloody Gore". With which band did Chris Reifert achieve cult status?You can find the Carcass songs "Buried Dreams", "No Love Lost" and "This Mortal Coil"...

When bands change their lead singers sometimes the whole direction and focal point of the group changes. Fans will become attached to the band at the time and see the current lead singer as 'their singer', the same process happened with me. Growing up...

The Routledge Handbook of Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements.Author: Lori BurnsISBN-10: 1032407204ISBN-13: 9781032407203Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2025Pages: 498Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.46lbsSize: 10.00h...

A powerhouse graphic novel where top writers and artists reinterpret Pantera's legendary Vulgar Display of Power, transforming each track into bold visual stories that blend music, myth, and heavy metal iconography. In the grand tradition established by Z2, the Vulgar Display of Power 30th...

An ethnographic study of gender, place and belonging, Affective Intensities introduces readers to the embodied sensations, flows and experiences of being in extreme music scenes in Australia and Japan.Author: R. OverellISBN-10: 1137406763ISBN-13: 9781137406767Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2014Pages: 211Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.63h x 5.80w x...

Whiskey in the Jar: The Real Story uncovers the fascinating journey of one of Ireland's most enduring folk ballads. From its rebellious roots and evolving lyrics to Thin Lizzy's iconic rock reinvention and Metallica's Grammy-winning cover, this book dives deep into the cultural, musical,...

Iron Maiden is the most successful heavy metal band in history, boasting numerous awards, countless No. 1 albums and singles, and a staggering 130 million sales.Just off the back of The Future Past Tour in 2024 - which included performances in 23 cities in...

(Percussion). Note-for-note transcriptions for 8 classic songs with a DVD including instruction by Jack E. Roth for all the important drum grooves and fills. Songs: Damage, Inc. * Fight Fire with Fire * Frantic * Hero of the Day * Jump in the Fire...

In Ten Year Run, Todd Baker unabashedly shared his journey from couch potato to Olympic torchbearer and marathon finisher. Now, he confesses his love for the world's scariest and loudest music: Heavy Metal. Baker wears a tie by day and a Slayer t-shirt by...

With each passing year of the 1980's, it seemed like the amount of hairspray, make-up, and spandex outfits modeled by heavy metal bands increased dramatically. And forget about a deep lyrical message in their tunes - it seemed to be all about partying and/or...

Follow the development of the project Satyricon & Munch through the lens of one of Norway's most famous band photographers, Morten Andersen. Morten Andersen's photo book follows the development of a collaborative project between Satyricon's Sigurd Wongraven and MUNCH. The project explores the intersection...

Get ready to go off the rails with Ozzy Unleashed: Insane Trivia from the Prince of Darkness! This wild, trivia-packed ride dives into the chaotic life of Ozzy Osbourne, the godfather of heavy metal. From his gritty Birmingham roots to Black Sabbath's genre-defining riffs...

Song-by-song, album-per-chapter book looking at the exemplary catalogue of King Diamond's devilish original band, from Melissa and Don't Break the Oath in the eighties to a vastly under-rated run of top-shelf reunion records in the nineties.The King Diamond catalogue gets a more informal look-in...

Peripheral Linguistic Brutality is a sociolinguistic investigation into the production of "metalness" through language in the Asia Pacific. Concentrating on the ways local music scenes adopt, reject, and modify linguistic ideologies, the authors (hosts of the podcast Lingua Brutallica) examine how translocal participation in...

Peripheral Linguistic Brutality is a sociolinguistic investigation into the production of "metalness" through language in the Asia Pacific. Focusing on the ways local music scenes adopt, reject, and modify linguistic ideologies, Jess Kruk and Wesley Robertson (hosts of the podcast Lingua Brutallica) examine how...

Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies. Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo...

Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies. Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo...

Frederic Chopin: Complete Works For The Pianoforte, Various Compositions (1895) is a comprehensive collection of all the piano compositions by the renowned Polish composer Frederic Chopin. This book includes all of Chopin's works for solo piano, including his famous Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Waltzes, and Polonaises....

After a career that has spanned three decades and included 100 million albums sold worldwide, nine Grammy Awards, and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Metallica has firmly established itself as one of the preeminent musical acts of all time,...

Featuring hundreds of unseen live and candid color and black-and-white photographs, "Murder in the Front Row" captures the wild-eyed zeal and drive that made Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth into legends, with over 100 million combined records sold.Author: Brian Lew, Harald OimoenISBN-10: 1935950037ISBN-13: 9781935950035Publisher: Bazillion...

Nelson Varas-Díaz engages in ethnographic work throughout Latin America to explore how heavy metal music is used to challenge the region's colonial past and present. Through extensive research in nine countries, his work documents how this musical genre allows listeners and musicians to engage...

All My Friends Are Rock Stars Volume III: The End is just the Beginning, is the final book in this series. We finish off the examination of the music scenes of Chicago, Freeport, Rockford IL, Madison & Milwaukee WI; 80's and 90's to the...

This is the complete autobiography of Varg Vikernes. It contains all the parts written for this autobiography, including My Black Metal Story, My Childhood Story, My Prison Story, My Burzum Story, and My Survival Story.Author: Varg VikernesISBN-10: 2959662911ISBN-13: 9782959662911Publisher: Hyperborean LeagueLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2025Pages: 678Format:...

Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly loud) traditions. Anselmi covers the bands and musicians that have impacted those styles most--Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Melvins, Eyehategod, Godflesh, Neurosis, Saint...

An essential addition to the library of any Iron Maiden fan, this unique look back at the heavy metal giants examines the band's legacy through the lens of 50 key milestones. It's tough to believe Iron Maiden's been around for a half-century, but author...

A deep dive into the music and songwriting of the world's greatest heavy metal band: Metallica. A must-read for any metalhead, Metallica: The Stories Behind the Songs breaks down the writing and recording of every track from each of the band's studio albums, including...

(Personality). Matching folio to the CD that debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart. This is the companion volume to the metal band's 1996 smash release 'Load', which also debuted at #1.Author: MetallicaISBN-10: 1575600943ISBN-13: 9781575600949Publisher: Cherry Lane Music CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1997Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Are you brave enough to find EDDIE? You'd better find him before he gets you! Search for IRON MAIDEN's iconic figurehead throughout insanely detailed illustrations based on some of their incredible album covers. Throughout their illustrious career, IRON MAIDEN's dauntless music has captured the...