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Who Invented Heavy Metal?

Martin Popoff
Who Invented Heavy Metal Book PDF

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 191278212X

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The most detailed, well argued, complete, most lively and readable telling of the early history of heavy metal yet with all the facts and figures one needs. The book provides the very history of heavy metal's origins through events inside the genre but, surprisingly, many events outside of its own reverberations.

The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal

Daniel Bukszpan
The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Book PDF

Author : Daniel Bukszpan
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Heavy metal
ISBN : 9780760742181

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Headbangers rejoice, because this fantastically illustrated encyclopedia includes all things Metal, from influential bands such as Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Kiss, and Queen, to M�tley Crue, Black Sabbath (before Ozzy became a family sitcom star), Deep Purple, Twisted Sister, and Aerosmith, right up to Jane's Addiction, Las Cruces, Limp Bizkit, and today's most extreme death metal bands. Not a single sub-genre or band goes uncovered. Well-researched and fact-filled, the witty text befits the raucous bands that push musical-and all other-boundaries. From obscure groups like Armored Saint and Norway's Mayhem to pioneers Grand Funk Railroad and Iron Maiden to megastars like Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford, Van Halen, Joan Jett, and Marilyn Manson, each entry contains vital statistics: a description of the band's history and sound; an essential discography; the most current, comprehensive, popular compilations; and much more. Special features cover such important details as "Metal Fashion" and the various metal genres. Def Leppard, Faith No More, Guns n' Roses, Judas Priest, Metallica, AC/DC, Nine-Inch Nails, Poison, Rage Against the Machine, and Japan's Loudness: all of the favorite (and not so favorite) adrenaline-pumped, bizarre bands that make heavy metal the unique form it is appear in all their glory.

The Big Book of Hair Metal

Martin Popoff
The Big Book of Hair Metal Book PDF

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760345467

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The Big Book of Hair Metal by Martin Popoff Pdf

"An oral history and timeline of the popular 1980s heavy metal subgenre, including its prehistory and decline, profusely illustrated with relevant photographs and memorabilia"--

The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: The seventies

Martin Popoff
The Collector s Guide to Heavy Metal The seventies Book PDF

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Apogee Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 1894959027

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The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: The seventies by Martin Popoff Pdf

"The Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal" was a mammoth of a book crammed with 3700 reviews of metal records through the decades. It elicited much discussion, including close to 70 reviews at the book's Amazon page and counting. Now it is being split into three volumes focusing on the '70s, '80s and '90s respectively with an additional 700-800 reviews added to the 70's. In "The Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal -- Volume I: The Seventies", Martin crams the pages full of reviews and recollections of rarities and monster catalogues from 70s bands not covered in the seminal original tome. As well, many of the original reviews get complete overhauls as Martin re-evaluates the classics and adds trivia titbits that make these records come to life. Join Martin's Seventies Appreciation Society and check out dozens of bands and hundreds of albums you won't see covered in any other rock anthology. This indeed is the book that brings back to the printed page, long-lost acts that rocked hard for their times, bands that built the foundation for the mountainous heavy metal sound of today. Monster Records, the king at finding the super obscure stuff, have provided an exclusive CD sampler for which includes material from some or all of the following: Sorcery, Truth And Janey, Ultra, Cain, Poobah, Negative Space and Survivor.

Heavy Metal Islam

Mark LeVine
Heavy Metal Islam Book PDF

Author : Mark LeVine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520389397

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This updated reissue of Mark LeVine’s acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region’s youth cultures to a new generation. Featuring a new preface by the author in conversation with the band The Kominas about the problematic connections between extreme music and Islam. An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” Heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, and reggae are each the music of protest, and are considered immoral by many in the Muslim world. As the young people and subcultures featured in Mark LeVine’s Heavy Metal Islam so presciently predicted, this music turned out to be the soundtrack of countercultures, uprisings, and even revolutions from Morocco to Pakistan. In Heavy Metal Islam, originally published in 2008, Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western music on the Middle East and North Africa through interviews with musicians and fans, introducing us to young people struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a thirst for change. The result is a revealing tour de force of contemporary cultures across the Muslim majority world through the region’s evolving music scenes that only a musician, scholar, and activist with LeVine’s unique breadth of experience could narrate. A New York Times Editor’s Pick when it was first published, Heavy Metal Islam is a surprising, wildly entertaining foray into a historically authoritarian region where music reveals itself to be a true democratizing force—and a groundbreaking work of scholarship that pioneered new forms of research in the region.

Heavy Metal

Michael Fabey
Heavy Metal Book PDF

Author : Michael Fabey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062996275

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An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy. Tip the Empire State Building onto its side and you’ll have a sense of the length of the United States Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the most powerful in the world: the USS John F. Kennedy. Weighing 100,000 tons, Kennedy features the most futuristic technology ever put to sea, making it the most agile and lethal global weapon of war. Only one place possesses the brawn, brains and brass to transform naval warfare with such a creation – the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its 30,000 employees and shipyard workers. This is their story, the riggers, fitters, welders, electricians, machinists and other steelworkers who built the next-generation aircraft carrier. Heavy Metal puts us on the waterfront and into the lives of these men and women as they battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers and a pandemic to complete a ship that will be essential to protect America’s way of life. The city of Newport News owes its very existence to the company that bears its name. The shipyard dominates the town—physically, politically, financially, socially, and culturally. Thanks to the yard, the city grew from a backwater to be the home of the premier naval contractor in the United States. Heavy Metal captures an indelible moment in the history of a shipyard, a city, and a country.

The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal

Essi Berelian
The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal Book PDF

Author : Essi Berelian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121924687

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A comprehensive guide to heavy metal music that profiles three hundred bands and artists, describes all the sub-genres, highlights memorable performances, and offers a detailed discography.

Queerness in Heavy Metal Music

Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Queerness in Heavy Metal Music Book PDF

Author : Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317916543

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Queerness in Heavy Metal Music by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone Pdf

While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance, pervasiveness, and subcultural significance of queerness to the heavy metal ethos. Heavy metal scholarship has until recently focused almost solely on the roles of heterosexual hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity in fans and performers. The dependence on that narrow dichotomy has limited heavy metal scholarship, resulting in poorly critiqued discussions of gender and sexuality that serve only to underpin the popular imagining of heavy metal as violent, homophobic and inherently masculine. This book queers heavy metal studies, bringing discussions of gender and sexuality in heavy metal out of that poorly theorized dichotomy. In this interdisciplinary work, the author connects new and existing scholarship with a strong ethnographic study of heavy metal’s self-identified queer performers and fans in their own words, thus giving them a voice and offering an original and ground-breaking addition to scholarship on popular music, rock, and queer studies.

Rusted Metal

James R Beach,Brian L Naron,James D Sutton
Rusted Metal Book PDF

Author : James R Beach,Brian L Naron,James D Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 108791339X

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Rusted Metal by James R Beach,Brian L Naron,James D Sutton Pdf

RUSTED METAL is a definitive guide to Heavy Metal and Hard Rock music in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Vancouver BC) from 1970 to 1995 by local authors and music fans James R. Beach, Brian L. Naron, James D. Sutton and James Tolin. Featuring a comprehensive guide to the bands, clubs, music and more (including interviews with members of: Metal Church, Heart, Rail, TKO, Culprit, Sanctuary, Black N' Blue, Wild Dogs, Pearl Jam, Q5, Heir Apparent, Shadow, Overlord, Panic, Malice, Glacier, Coven, Cruella, Forced Entry, Whizkey Stik, High Voltage, Widow, Wehrmacht, Gargoyle, Lipstick and many others - around 100 brand new interviews in all!). Features over 500 band bios, discography, concert listings, tons of photos, flyers, covers, merchandise, etc. as well.

Sound of the Beast

Ian Christe
Sound of the Beast Book PDF

Author : Ian Christe
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780062042989

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The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more. More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete heavy metal album, its founder, Ozzy Osbourne, is the star of The Osbournes, TV's favourite new reality show. Contrary to popular belief, headbangers and the music they love are more alive than ever. Yet there has never been a comprehensive book on the history of heavy metal - until now. Featuring interviews with members of the biggest bands in the genre, Sound of the Beast gives an overview of the past 30-plus years of heavy metal, delving into the personalities of those who created it. Everything is here, from the bootlegging beginnings of fans like Lars Ulrich (future founder of Metallica) to the sold-out stadiums and personal excesses of the biggest groups. From heavy metal's roots in the work of breakthrough groups such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin to MTV hair metal, courtroom controversies, black metal murderers and Ozzfest, Sound of the Beast offers the final word on this elusive, extreme, and far-reaching form of music.

Heavy Metal Africa

Edward Banchs
Heavy Metal Africa Book PDF

Author : Edward Banchs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 1633851613

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From cafes in Madagascar to quiet, dusty towns in the middle of the Kalahari, Edward seeks to understand exactly how the musicians live and struggle-- while experiencing the passion of rock and metal in Africa for himself"--Back cover

Heavy Metal Movies

Mike McPadden
Heavy Metal Movies Book PDF

Author : Mike McPadden
Publisher : Bazillion Points LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1935950061

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Wherever heavy metal has gone, heavy metal movies have followed, blazing ferocious new celluloid trails; from concert movies and trippy midnight flicks at the dawn of "heaviosity" through inspirational depictions of ancient times and future apocalypses to the raw hand-held video productions of today. "Heavy Metal Movies" rounds up, reviews, and canonizes all known incidents of the heavy metal in motion pictures, from performance films, feature documentaries, occult rock 'n' roll horror, and headbanger characters to soundtrack standouts, namesake inspirations, lyrical references, aesthetic archetypes, and more. As brash, irreverent, and visceral as both the music and the movies themselves, "Heavy Metal Movies" is the ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience.

Heavy Metals

Deepak Pathania
Heavy Metals Book PDF

Author : Deepak Pathania
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Heavy metals
ISBN : 1634847407

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This book is concerned with heavy metals, which are considered to be the most hazardous pollutants present in the water system. Heavy metals are extensively studied and their effects on human health are reviewed here. Although several adverse health effects of heavy metals are known for a long time, exposure to heavy metals continues and is even increasing in some parts of the world. This books deals with the source of heavy metals in the environment and possible mitigation measures for metal recovery. The technology available for the detection of heavy metals and the latest remediation techniques are also discussed in detail. In this way, the book also addresses general background to polymers and their composite materials for removal of specific toxic heavy metals from waste water. The different adsorption isotherm models and adsorption mechanism using biosorption methods are also described. The widespread applications of low-value agricultural products, ion-exchange, coagulation, precipitation, flocculation, ultra-filtration and electrochemical methods are mentioned. The book reviews the essential issues and will be of interest to academicians, research scholars and industries. It will be the precious resource for all undergraduate and postgraduate students at institutes and universities.

Heavy Metal Music in Britain

Dr Gerd Bayer
Heavy Metal Music in Britain Book PDF

Author : Dr Gerd Bayer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409493853

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Heavy Metal Music in Britain by Dr Gerd Bayer Pdf

Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep and Iron Maiden, were mostly seeking to reach a young male audience. Songs were often filled with violent, sexist and nationalistic themes but were also speaking to the growing sense of deterioration in social and professional life. At the same time, however, heavy metal was seriously indebted to the legacies of blues and classical music as well as to larger literary and cultural themes. The genre also produced mythological concept albums and rewritings of classical poems. In other words, heavy metal tried from the beginning to locate itself in a liminal space between pedestrian mass culture and a rather elitist adherence to complexity and musical craftsmanship, speaking from a subaltern position against the hegemonic discourse. This collection of essays provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary look at British heavy metal from its beginning through The New Wave of British Heavy Metal up to the increasing internationalization and widespread acceptance in the late 1980s. The individual chapter authors approach British heavy metal from a textual perspective, providing critical analyses of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances. Rather than focus on individual bands or songs, the essays collected here argue with the larger system of heavy metal music in mind, providing comprehensive analyses that relate directly to the larger context of British life and culture. The wide range of approaches should provide readers from various disciplines with new and original ideas about the study of this phenomenon of popular culture.

Heavy Metal Stress in Plants

M.N.V. Prasad,Jürgen Hagemeyer
Heavy Metal Stress in Plants Book PDF

Author : M.N.V. Prasad,Jürgen Hagemeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662077450

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Heavy Metal Stress in Plants by M.N.V. Prasad,Jürgen Hagemeyer Pdf

Heavy metal phytotoxicity has been known for more than a century. However, research in the past years has confirmed the immense damage by metal pollution to plants, the soil and ultimately to humans. By reviewing both field and laboratory work, this book deals with the various functional and ecological aspects of heavy metal stress on plants and outlines the scope for future research and the possibilities for remediation.