Heavy Metal 101: Required Reading

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Heavy Metal 101: Required Reading

By Mick Stingley, Contributor, KNAC.com

When this reviewer was in high school and college, there were three books that were considered “must-reads” about music: Catch A Fire (about Bob Marley), No One Here Gets Out Alive (Jim Morrison/The Doors) and Hammer of the Gods (Led Zeppelin). Since then, there have been many “rock” books that have come along, but not many that really stand out and grab you. Crazy From The Heat (David Lee Roth) comes to mind, as does The Dirt (Motley Crue)… but amidst all the books languishing in the music section of Barnes & Noble, there aren’t many that stand out as much. Apart from personal musings by Henry Rollins, Zodiac Mindwarp and Jizzy Pearl, and perhaps a Ted Nugent cookbook, there is little out there that captures the readers attention: I know KNAC’s Frank Meyer has a book on The Ramones; someone told about a pretty good Aerosmith book…

In the meantime: below, four books I would highly recommend on the subject of Rock. I had the pleasure to read these over the Christmas/Winter holiday, and feel obliged to honor them with some attention. Hopefully, others will seek to do the same…

Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbangers History of Metal

The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal

White Line Fever: Lemmy

The Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

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Heavy Metal 101: Required Reading

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