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Rough Guide to Heavy Metal by Rough Guides Staff and Essi Berelian (2005, Trade Paperback)

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This pocket-sized reference book is the definitive guide to heavy metal, from death metal to classic rock! It provides career biographies for more than 300 bands and artists, like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Darkness, Linkin Park, and Kyuss, highlighting their highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, and even the hair and horrors. This book also covers sub-genres, from thrash to southern rock, Christian metal to hair metal, and glam. Critical discographies are included for every entry, reviewing the best of what's available on CD, with additional recommendations and reviews of the best of the rest. It also features pictures from the finest metal photographers, concert shots and album covers.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated

ISBN-101843534150

ISBN-139781843534150

eBay Product ID (ePID)46748059

Product Key Features

Book TitleRough Guide to Heavy Metal

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicGenres & Styles / Heavy Metal

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic

AuthorRough Guides Staff, Essi Berelian

Book SeriesRough Guide Reference Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight24.6 Oz

Item Length3.6 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-283222

TitleLeadingThe

SynopsisWith more than 300 artist biographies and band stories, this is the essential heavy metal companion. Additional features include dozens of boxouts and sidebars on topics as diverse and disturbing as Weird Hobbies, Christian Metal, the Japanese Scene, Weird Day Jobs, the Eastern European Scene, Hardcore Crossover and Drummer Jokes. From Alien Ant Farm to Biohazard and yes, all the way to ZZ Top the Rough Guide to Heavy Metal is the ultimate brain-warping A to Z. If you love metal, this is the book for you., With more than 300 artist biographies and band stories, this is the essential heavy metal companion. Additional features include dozens of boxouts and sidebars on topics as diverse and disturbing as Weird Hobbies, Christian Metal, the Japanese Scene, Weird Day Jobs, the Eastern European Scene, Hardcore Crossover and Drummer Jokes. From Alien Ant Farm to Biohazard - and yes, all the way to ZZ Top - the Rough Guide to Heavy Metal is the ultimate brain-warping A to Z. If you love metal, this is the book for you.

LC Classification NumberML3534