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The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal |
Author: Daniel Bukszpan
Published: 2003-10-01 |
List price: $19.95
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 Great book on rock's wildest genre
All books dealing with music, especially metal, are always subject to argument and opinion. It therefore takes a very careful author indeed to cover some of metal's most famous, infamous and influential bands with the obvious love and careful research that Daniel Bukszpan does.
"The Encyclopedia Of Heavy Metal" is a coffee table sized book packed with awesome photos and lots of information on tons of bands. Bukszpan gets the facts right, there are no typos or misspelled words that plague some other volumes, and the book is rife with lots of humor and lots of love.
The stars are all here - Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, and lesser known but no less important outfits like Exodus, Voivod and Fear Factory. As usual, the inclusion of some bands will raise eyebrows, like Zeppelin, Limp Bizkit (who don't belong anywhere but in the trash) or NIN. But all have a basic audacity and guitar crunch that makes their mention understandable.
Most pleasing is the attention paid to detail and the fantastic photos. Too bad this tome is a few years old, but it is an essential volume for all those who love metal in all its severity, lunacy and cartoonishness, and just plain fun to thumb through for everybody else. One of the best metal books out there today.
 Not Even Worth One Star
At first glance, this looks like a great book to have if you're a metalhead. If you know anything at all about metal, you'll notice all of the misinformation and "facts" that seem to have come from out of left field. Interestingly, although lots of bands were left out, the author did manage to get his band into the book ... This guy obviously didn't do his research or was so full of himself that he figured he was right about everything. The only really great thing about this book is the color photographs.
 Even Dio's biases can't ruin the book
Everyone who is a longtime metal fan will have thier own complaints about omissions that seem so unjust to them and I too have a few (Virgin Steele, Primus), but there are more surprising inclusions that make this book really fun to read (Exciter, Jag Panzer, Mr. Bungle, The Melvins). It seems, at least to me, that Dio is interjecting his own opinions a little much for my taste. Examples: Dio listed as the top Heavy Metal vocalist and Ozzy isn't in the top 10, Tony Iommi is in the top 10 guitarists while Randy Rhoads missing from the list, and the most essential Heavy Metal album is, according to the book, is Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell" (featuring Dio, of course). And who has the crush on King's X anyway? They are o.k, I guess, but reading this you get the impression that they are the second coming of Sabbath or something.
best heavy metal book ever period!
This book has everything about metal music/bands, nuff said.
Outstanding book, show me the sign rattleheads
This book is every metal heads dream. It cover most of the major metal bands, and then some. With big bold pictures and excellent write ups, these guys did their research. This is a great book to have around to settle arguments, with info about the band and thier work. The best part, it wont break the bank buying it. So this book is good as a reference and as entertainment, you could spend hours paging through it, and don't forget to crank the metal as you read. There are many other books out there, but this is the best by far.
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