Post by metallico on Oct 29, 2005 10:15:03 GMT -5
So I showed up at work the other day, and just lying in the parking lot was Ian Christe's Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. Plus, it was "updated including new material on metal in the muslim world." Score!
It's pretty good. Metal journalism is always unbelievably pretentious, and Christe doesn't spare the long words or cosmic metaphors, but he's actually very perceptive about the relationships between metal and the scene in general. So far, anyway, I'm only up to the early '80s.
Anyone else read this book? Is this book well-respected within the metal scene? 'Cause the reviews all call it the Bible of metal, but that's like the Library Journal's view. But it's not really set up to have mass appeal to outsiders. It's kind of like metal's ultimate self-congratulation.
It's pretty good. Metal journalism is always unbelievably pretentious, and Christe doesn't spare the long words or cosmic metaphors, but he's actually very perceptive about the relationships between metal and the scene in general. So far, anyway, I'm only up to the early '80s.
Anyone else read this book? Is this book well-respected within the metal scene? 'Cause the reviews all call it the Bible of metal, but that's like the Library Journal's view. But it's not really set up to have mass appeal to outsiders. It's kind of like metal's ultimate self-congratulation.
