Andrew O'Neill
Softcover | 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm | 320 pp
Headline | 2018 | 9781472258137
The history of heavy metal brings brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Metallica (SIT DOWN, LARS!), to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cut-throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies, Satanists and murderers, born-again Christians and teetotallers, stadium-touring billionaires and toilet-circuit journeymen.
Award-winning comedian and life-long heavy metal obsessive Andrew O'Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences, from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet-reading theatre-goers of the Edinburgh Fringe. Now, in his first book, he takes us on his own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music, the subculture, and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music.
Contents
Introduction: What is Heavy Metal?
1. Roots, Bloody Roots
2. Black Sabbath
3. The Golden Age of Heavy Metal
4. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal
5. The First Wave of Black Metal
6. Thrash Metal Ascends: 1981-9
7. Fucking Glam Fucking Metal
8. Death Metal
9. The Second Wave of Black Metal
10. Genre Inflation (Too Many Cooks, Too Many Cooks)
11. Grunge and Groove: the Nineties
12. In the Late Nineties Every Band I Loved Went Shit
13. An Honest and Open-Minded Reappraisal of Nu-Metal and Rap Metal
14. Metalcore and the Return of Good Music
15. Trouble in the Sorting Office: the 'Post' Explosion
16. The End of the Line: Retro Metal and the Revival Movement
17. The State of Metal Today
Epilogue: The Future of Heavy Metal
'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman
'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore
'A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll".' - The Sunday Times
'As funny and preposterous as this mighty music deserve' - John Higgs
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