Title:
Sound of the beast : the complete headbanging history of heavy metal / Ian Christe.
Author:
Christe, Ian, 1970-
Publication Information:
New York : It Books, 2004.
Call Number:
ML3524 .C475 2004
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780380811274
Physical Description:
399 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm.
General Note:
"Updated including new material on metal in the Muslim world."--P. 4 of cover.
Contents:
A brief headbanging history of time -- Prologue : Friday, February 13, 1970 -- 1970s : Prelude to heaviness -- New wave of British heavy metal -- 1980 : American wasteland awaits -- Heavy metal America : highways & video waves -- Fevered fans : Metallica & power metal -- Slayer : kings of black metal devils -- PMRC's anitmetal panic -- Rattleheads : mental metal reaction -- Full speed ahead : thrash metal attacks! -- The Hollywood glambangers -- United forces : metal and harcore punk -- And platinum for "one," metal matures -- Transforming the 1990s : Black album & beyond -- Death metal deliverance -- World metal : the globalization of heavy -- Teen terrorists of Norwegian black metal -- Satan goes to court : People v. heavy metal -- Antimetal era : Haircuts & new roots -- Virtual Ozzy & metal's digital rebound -- Reenthroned emperors : It's a headbanging world -- Epilogue : 2001 : iron man lives again -- All hail to thee.
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