Heavy Metal Music

It’s one of the great debates in musicology and the answer is as complicated as it is hotly contested. Popoff’s Who Invented Heavy Metal? provides ...

More than any other publication ÊGuitar WorldÊ magazine has followed Metallica's rise from underground phenomenon to mainstream metal giant. ÊGuit...

No musical entity has been more closely associated with ÊGuitar WorldÊ magazine over the years than Edward Van Halen ä the man who in the late sev...

Unlike any Sabbath book thus far ÊBlack Sabbath FAQÊ digs deep into quirks obscure anecdotes and burning questions surrounding the Sabs. In a fa...

Life in the Stocks: Veracious conversations with musicians & creatives is a collection of rock ‘n’ roll stories taken from the iTunes chart-top...

Frank Bello, bassist with the legendary New York thrash metal band Anthrax since 1984, has sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more t...

Metal music has long nurtured an obsession with visions of the Middle Ages, with countless album covers and lyric sheets populated by Vikings, knig...

For over four decades, scholars have been investigating male dominance - both symbolically and numerically -within popular music. The heavier genr...

The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels...

Marta Skaði is on a mission to destroy the world. Rebelling against the picturesque Norwegian fishing town that she was born in, Marta pulls toget...

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research, exploring how the audio...