Book

A history of heavy metal / Andrew O'Neill.

O'Neill, Andrew, 1979- (author.).

Summary:

"The history of heavy metal brings brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Metallica (SIT DOWN, LARS!), to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cut-throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies, Satanists and murderers, born-again Christians and teetotallers, stadium-touring billionaires and toilet-circuit journeymen."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781472241450
ISBN: 1472241452
Physical Description: xxiv, 296 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: London : Headline, 2018.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: What is Heavy Metal? -- Roots, Bloody Roots -- Black Sabbath -- The Golden Age of Heavy Metal -- The New Wave of British Heavy Metal -- The First Wave of Black Metal -- Thrash Metal Ascends: 1981-9 -- Fucking Glam Fucking Metal -- Death Metal -- The Second Wave of Black Metal -- Genre Inflation (Too Many Cooks, Too Many Cooks) -- Grunge and Groove: the Nineties -- In the Late Nineties Every Band I Loved Went Shit -- An Honest and Open-Minded Reappraisal of Nu-Metal and Rap Metal -- Metalcore and the Return of Good Music -- Trouble in the Sorting Office: the 'Post' Explosion -- The End of the Line: Retro Metal and Revival Movement -- The State of Metal Today -- Epilogue: The Future of Heavy Metal.