BOOKS: Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal

Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal

by: David Konow

Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Released: November 12, 2002

Number of pages: 480

ISBN-10: 0609807323

ISBN-13: 978-0609807323

In a book that never quite gets rolling, Konow, a writer for Guitar World, sets out to give a timeline of heavy metal while answering "three key questions: what went right, what went wrong, and what the hell happened?" He begins in Birmingham, England, which he argues is the birthplace of heavy metal, with its most popular statesman today, Ozzy Osbourne. As a revolt against the hippie movement and in part to save himself from a life of crime, Osbourne formed Black Sabbath. At the same time, Led Zeppelin formed from the "ashes of the Yardbirds," and after finally gathering enough members (Keith Moon of the Who turned them down, quipping that they'd sink "like a lead zeppelin," which is how Jimmy Page decided on the name), held a jam session. Konow continues in a chronological fashion, briefly sketching band bios, triumphs and downfalls. Without exploiting each band's debauchery or disintegration, Konow covers such other metal acts such as Alice Cooper, Kiss, Van Halen, M"tley Cr�e, Dokken, Def Leppard, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Guns 'n' Roses and many others. The portraits of Alice Cooper and Axl Rose are the most engaging parts of the book. However, the chapters read more like magazine articles than a coherent book. Hardcore metal fans will likely find the book a bit soft and too pop, and they're unlikely to learn any new stories. In the final pages, Konow attempts an analysis of the fall of heavy metal, but by that point, so many bands have risen and fallen that his curt summation is hardly satisfying. This is an inspired personal effort that won't chart.

Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. (from Publishers Weekly)

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BOOKS: 33 1/3 Reign in Blood

33 1/3 Reign In Blood

by: D.X. Ferris

Publisher: Continuum

Released: April 15, 2008

Number of pages: 153

ISBN-10: 0826429092

ISBN-13: 978-0826429094

A short, intense, meticulous history of Reign In Blood, and really, the whole band...The result is an authorized, damn perfect look at this one album." --Martin Popoff, editor in chief of Brave Words Bloody Knuckles, author of Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers and Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose

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BOOKS: Sound of the Beast: The complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

by: Ian Christe

Released: February 17, 2004 (It Books)

Number of Pages: 416

ISBN-10: 0380811278

ISBN-13: 978-0380811274

Few books on heavy metal music can compare to Christe's thoughtful and passionate history of the music of the beast. 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. Black Sabbath set the pace, but bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple "fleshed out the edges and gave it sex appeal." The next wave, the new wave of British heavy metal, saw the emergence of Motorhead, Saxon and Iron Maiden among many others. The movement then spread through America and found most bands cropping up out of L.A. (although many migrated from the Midwest). Van Halen, Ratt and Motley Crue grew out of the then underground club scene. Christe doesn't get bogged down in anecdotes about bands and their groupies, but instead documents the music and its different genres. 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 called Black Noerd), and readers might wish for more critical analysis about the culture of fans. But this is a minor point in a book otherwise worthy of having its dog-eared and beer-stained pages passed among friends and placed in motel-room bedside drawers. 94 b&w photos, and 16-page color insert not seen by PW. (from Publisher's Weekly)

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BOOKS: Choosing Death The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore

by Albert Mudrian

Publisher: Feral House

Published: October 1, 2004

Number of pages: 288

ISBN-10: 193259504X

ISBN-13: 978-1932595048

Mudrian details two of the more esoteric subgenres of heavy metal in appropriate fashion, that is, with photos of the bands, but not definitions of and distinctions between, say, death metal and black metal, abounding. By and large, Mudrian treats grindcore and death metal as interrelated approaches to the verbally gloomy, power-chording world of heavy metal that are leavened by a stiff dose of the punk do-it-yourself ethos and created by musicians who "grew up on traditional heavy metal, thrash and speed metal, punk, industrial and hardcore." Taxonomic considerations aside, Mudrian provides conversational histories of such bands as Cannibal Corpse, Darkthrone, and Sepultra and highlights of interviews with leading subgenre movers and shakers. Altogether, the book is similar to the three Decline of Western Civilization documentaries of outsider music, minus those films' endearing footage of substance abuse and other suicidal behaviors. An excellent shelf mate to Moynihan and Soderlind's Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground (1998)--not as scary for fans' parents but just as insightful and comprehensive. (from Booklist)

BOOKS: True Norwegian Black Metal

True Norwegian Black Metal

by: Peter Beste

Publisher: Powerhouse

Published: May 01, 2008

Number of Pages: 208

ISBN-10: 1576874354

ISBN-13: 978-1576874356

Peter Beste has made this book an essential photographic record for fans of the genre and anyone interested or curious about it. Although the inherently extreme nature of black metal symbolism makes for an easy target this collection presents the subject matter through crisp, stunning visuals and an overall volume that's made with class and objectivity, if perhaps some enhancement of the philosophy behind the music with several grand quotes. This book also includes a great timeline of the black metal genre as well as a collection of tabloid-style newspaper and magazine (Kerrang, for one) feature articles regarding the "bad old days" of Norwegian black metal.

If you've listened to black metal for years, are just starting, or are curious about the genre, go ahead and pick this up. (from Amazon)

EBOOKS: Lords of Chaos

Lords of Chaos

by: Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind

Publisher: Feral House

Number of Pages: 358

Publication Date: April 1998

ISBN-10: 0922915482

ISBN-13: 978-0922915484

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground is a book by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind. The book presents itself as a non-fiction account of the early Norwegian black metal scene, with a focus on the string of church burnings and murders that occurred in the country around 1993. A film adaptation loosely based on the book and directed by documentary film director Hans Fjellestad is in pre-production. The book has been the subject of an amount of controversy over the alleged political leanings of author Michael Moynihan, though Moynihan denies these allegations. (from Wikipedia)

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EBOOKS: Our Band Could Be Your Life

Our Band Could Be Your Life

by: Michael Azerrad

ISBN-10 0-316-78753-1

ISBN-13 973-0316787536

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Number of pages: 528

Publication date: July 2, 2002

The title comes from the opening line of an autobiographical song written by Mike Watt of The Minutemen, one of the groups featured in the book. The song, "History Lesson, Pt II" is on Double Nickels on the Dime and details the band's working class origins and populist sentiments: "Punk rock changed our lives."

The book chronicles the careers of several underground rock groups who, while finding little or no mainstream success, were hugely influential in establishing American alternative and indie rock, mostly through nearly constant touring and records released on small, regional record labels.

Azerrad conducted many interviews with the members of the featured bands, and also conducted extensive research of old fanzines, as well as more mainstream newspapers and books.

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