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Sounds of the Beast: The History Of Heavy Metal.


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I got this as a gift, and I'm just starting to read it today. While I'm about 30 pages in, its a pretty good outlook on the Metal music.

 

Anyone else that has read it, and wouldn't mind sharing their opinions about it.

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Yeah, I got it last September. Probably, the best book on metal I've read thus far, with a good writing style that often ruins a lot of music books not written by qualified writers.

 

Christie also seems to know his stuff, but beware, a lot of it is really subjective, especially when it comes to catagorizing albums into the specific sub-genres of metal. Still if you're not a stubborn little wank, it's very enjoyable.

 

Probably the best part for me was the section on the evolution of black metal, and the scandinavian (sp?) scene with all those fucked up black metallers (Euronymous, Varg Vikernes, Death i.e all of Mayhem) burning down churches and eating brains. Death for example (whom suicided), would sleep in dirt and live amongst animal corpses to enhance the whole black metal image. Good for him.

 

All in all, the most informative book on metal I've ever read, with tons of good anecdotes that one can boast to his friends. Before reading this book, I didn't know that it was actually Dio who popularised the 'devils' sign at metal shows (which ironically was intended as the love sign).

 

So yeah, it was good.

 

ALSO: It has an awesome cover design. Especially in hardcover

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...I'm never throwing another "devil" hand symbol again...FUCK DIO! FUCK YOU, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS! ROLL A 20 AND THEN KISS MY ASS!

I'm surprised that you never knew this.

 

 

Dio > Ozzy

 

Dio < Black Sabbath.

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