The Essential: Metal Books
Metal Hammer brings you our guide to the metal books you should own!
Motley Crue – The Dirt
Neil Strauss and Motley Crue
An autobiography that includes death, prison, near-death and more drugs than Columbia could ingest, The Dirt is an essential tale of decadence and debauchery.
Get In The Van
Henry Rollins
Never shy of a few words, Hank tells all in this tale of a year on the road with Black Flag. Scuffles with the police and dining out on dog-food sandwiches both play their part in this tale but the real drama is the extreme alienation, depression and loneliness that Rollins experiences while living life on the road.
Lords Of Chaos: Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
Michael Moynihan
As gritty and gruesome as you’d imagine, this raw account of the darker side of extreme metal is a fascinating insight into black metal’s rise and the chilling stories which have blighted its legacy. Awesome stuff.
Led Zeppelin: Hammer Of The Gods
Stephen Davis
Bursting with tales of sex, dealings with Satan and dealing with the pressures of being one of the planet’s biggest bands, Stephen Davis’s unauthorised biography unveils the darkness behind one of the biggest bands to ever walk the earth.
White Line Fever: Lemmy – The Autobiography
Lemmy
Having been there, seen it and snorted it with the best of them, Lemmy’s drink and drug fuelled memoirs are everything you’d expect from rock’s ultimate elder-statesman. The savage murder of his flatmate is a real talking point.
Hell Bent For Leather: Confessions Of A Heavy Metal Addict
Seb Hunter
A strangely touching tale that concentrates on why the music we love is so important to us and the world at large through the eyes of a metal head trying to hit the big time Britain in the late 80’s/early 90’s. A stunning read for those that obsess about heavy music that little bit too much.
American Hardcore: A Tribal History
Steven Blush
American Hardcore is a unique and hard-hitting documentation of the US hardcore scene. Anti-establishment, anti-commercial and anti just about everything else, Blush captures this cultural phenomenon with help from The Misfits, Minor Threat, Black Flag and everyone else who was there from the beginning.
Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge
Keith Khan-Harris
Always courting controversy and going against the grain, extreme metal was always a perfect musical genre for a fascinating read and that’s just what Khan-Harris delivers here. Death and destruction mixed with communal spirit and unconditional devotion? All present and accounted for.
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Lords Of Chaos in that list makes perfectly good sense.
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I would also recommend Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman, Choosing Death – the Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian and Sound of the Beast – The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal by Ian Christe.
David Lee Roth’s “Crazy From The Heat” is a really good read. I’ve always said that that, along with Motley’s “The Dirt”, are actually manuals on how the be in a rock band. More Emo bands should read them, maybe they’ll start to have some FUN…
(PS – not technically a metal book, per se, but still pretty fuckin’ Rock N’ Roll is Jenna Jameson’s “Make Love Like A Porn Star”. Check it out and get horny!!)
Just remembered another good one: I had a copy of a book written by Gary Bushell (yes, THAT Gary Bushell, of The Sun fame) about Iron Maiden. Can’t remember what the book was called but it finished up just as the band was about to start work on what would be their “Powerslave” album so it’s pretty old. It was actually a really good read and extremely funny (yeah, I know. I didn’t think the prick was capable of humour either…) and I would recommend any other metalheads to grab it if you see it on Ebay, Amazon or somewhere else.
There’s a french new one : Anthologie du hard rock “De bruit, de fureur et de larmes” par Jérôme Alberola.
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the dirt was a good book fucking funny and shocking though im not the biggest crew fan, i will get some these books you’ve picked out some intresting read’s there,
the best bio ever was ozzy diary of a madman it’s been deleterd but this was ozzy at his best,
my fav bit was ozzy taking a walk on acid (lots) and chatting to a horse only to be told fuck off by the horse ozzy never took acid again after that lol
long live rock n roll man!!!
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