Heavy Metal category: 139 books
Queerness in Heavy Metal Music
Metal Bent
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
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 queer fans, performers, and...
Metal Rules the Globe
Heavy Metal Music around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
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 this dramatic expansion of heavy...
by Keith Kahn-Harris, Deena Weinstein, Esther Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical...
by Andrew O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman
'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore
'A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll".' - The Sunday Times
'As...
Christianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred within the Secular West
Transgressing the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book explores the symbolic connections between Christianity and Heavy Metal music in the context of the secular West. Heavy Metal uses symbols and imagery taken from Christianity, even if the purpose is to critique religion. This usage creates a positive connection with an interpretation of Christianity...
by Martin Popoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
The result of an extensive poll asking heavy metal fans to list their favourite high-octane albums, this compendium combines those survey results with Popoff's original interviews with world famous rockers who reveal recording session secrets in addition to their own heavy classics and ear-splitting...
Sound of the Beast
The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more.
More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete...
Heavy Metal Youth Identities
Researching the Musical Empowerment of Youth Transitions and Psychosocial Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Heavy Metal Youth Identities critically examines the significance of heavy metal music and culture in the everyday lives of metal youth. Historically, young metal fans have been portrayed in popular and academic literature as delinquent, mentally unwell, demotivated, and destined for low-achieving...
Heavy Duty
Days and Nights in Judas Priest
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Memoir by the cofounder and former lead guitarist of heavy metal giants Judas Priest
Judas Priest formed in the industrial city of Birmingham, England, in 1969. With its distinctive twin-guitar sound, studs-and-leather image, and international sales of over 50 million records, Judas Priest...
When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11
Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
There are deep and fascinating links between heavy metal and quantum physics. No, really!
While teaching at the University of Nottingham, physicist Philip Moriarty noticed something odd, a surprising number of his students were heavily into metal music. Colleagues, too: a Venn diagram of physicists...
So Let It Be Written
The Biography of Metallica's James Hetfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
"Eglinton's book provides the ultimate insider’s look at the man who turned it all around and became a metal god.." —Guitar World“A brilliant look into one of heavy metal’s most important icons. . . . For a Metallica fan like me, So Let It Be Written is must have.” —Ghost Cult“Eglinton...
by Eddie Trunk
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Known as a leading expert on all things hard rock and heavy metal, Eddie Trunk continues to entertain fans on the radio and as the host of VH1 Classic's hit television program That Metal Show with his passion for music. In his debut book, Eddie discusses his most essential bands, his unique personal...
Bang Your Head
The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
“Bang your head! Metal Health’ll drive you mad!”
— Quiet Riot
Like an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music on steroids, Bang Your Head is an epic history of every band and every performer that has proudly worn the Heavy Metal badge. Whether headbanging is your guilty pleasure or you...
by Howie Abrams, Sacha Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
T**he Merciless Book of Metal Lists is an irreverent and illustrated compendium of the most random, funny, and challenging information about Heavy Metal from the last 40 years. You want to know which Metal albums jumped the shark”? Curious to know what non-Metal bands Metalheads love,...