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Orgasmatron: The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno
By Laura Wiebe Although Joe Petagno’s work reaches far beyond the Motörhead discography, a book highlighting his art seems like appropriate fodder for Hellbound’s Motörhead month. If the title, or...
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All Pens Blazing: A Rock & Heavy Metal Writer’s Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2, by...
By Natalie Zed Calling these two massive volumes of interviews a “handbook” initially struck me as a curious choice. The subtitle might suggest that they’ll offer straightforward directions,...
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Overkill: The Untold Story of Motorhead By Joel McIver
By Steve Earles Back in 2002, Lemmy published his excellent autobiography White Line Fever; Joel McIver’s Overkill book is the perfect companion to that tome, for while Lemmy’s book was the story of...
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Metalion : The Slayer Mag Diaries
Book review by Craig Haze Metalion’s arrival in my house was treated with the same reverence as the lead-up to the birth of my son—well, it was by me anyway. First, there was the excitement of...
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Deep Purple and Beyond: Scenes From The Life of a Rock Star
Reviewed By Steve Earles I first became aware of Glenn Hughes on my 18th birthday via a present of Deep Purple’s Burn album. I was of course already aware of David Coverdale, an MTV-friendly version...
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Book Review: The Bloody Reign of Slayer
Reviewed By Steve Earles (Please note, this book was originally published in 2008 – The Ed) Another book from the bionic pen of Joel McIver (who clearly shares some traits with his 80s in TV name-same...
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Murder In The Front Row – Shots From The Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter
By Keith Carman Less than a half-century old, at this point in the history of loud music there’s very little that can be unearthed from its relatively shallow grave. Other than a few, “I was there,...
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Steve Earles’ book reviews: Worldwide Gothic & Crazy Train:The High Life and...
By Steve Earles Two fine books to review this month. The first… Worldwide Gothic by Natasha Scharf comes from Martin Roach’s respected Independent Music Press, whose output is usually of the best...
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Steve Earles’ Book Reviews – April/May 2012 edition
By Steve Earles Another edition of thought-provoking book reviews from our Irish based correspondent Steve Earles. Please enjoy! Siege Malta 1940-1943 By Ernle Bradford Pen & Sword Books have a...
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Book review: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Joel McIver
By Steve Earles Not for nothing do I refer to Joel McIver as “The James Brown of Metal Writing”, because like the Godfather of Soul, Joel (see what I did there? Poet and I don’t know it), Joel is the...
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Do You Have Anything to Declare? By Kevin Stewart-Panko and Justin Smith
By Rob Hughes What’s that you say, Dee? You can’t stop rock and roll? The man at the border would beg to differ. So would the many musicians interviewed in this book. Rock and roll can indeed be...
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The scene’s softer side: Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett
In general, metal gets a bad rap as being the Devil’s music or evil in nature. This in turn leads to the assumption that metal musicians (and their fans) are also guilty. Now, most of the readers of...
View ArticleExtremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground
Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground (Handshake Inc) By Jason Netherton In 2013, Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman released their ambitiously titled tome, Louder than Hell: The...
View ArticleDespumation Vol 1: Issue 1
Des`pu`ma’tion n. 1. The act of throwing up froth or scum, separation of the scum or impurities from liquid, scumming, clarification Or the title of a spankin’ new literary journal. Despumation Vol. 1:...
View ArticleFeeding Back – Conversations With Alternative Guitarists From Proto-Punk To...
Read any book featuring a few world famous guitarists who have been asked to analyze both their instrument and how they play it, and the first thing you’ll be confronted with is how conflicted their...
View ArticleJustice For All: The Truth About Metallica
A lot has been written about Metallica, ranging from scathing criticism to fawning praise. The truth, as always, lies in between. The band is composed of three-dimensional human beings, just like you...
View ArticleAleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Most Wicked Man in the World
Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Most Wicked Man in the World Written by Gary Lachman Published by Tarcher/Penguin There can be few music fans that aren’t aware of the name Aleister...
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Black Sabbath: The Vault by Paul Elliot
Without Black Sabbath, I wouldn’t be writing this and you wouldn’t be reading this… it’s that simple. Published by Carltonbooks, (available to order here). “Written by a leading music journalist and...
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Scott Ian – I’m The Man
I met Scott Ian in Dublin years ago when Anthrax were playing there. He doesn’t mention this in his book but I supposed he’s saving that for his next book (NOT! See what I did there, Anthrax fans?). He...
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Season of the Witch: How The Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal
Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll is epic in every sense of the word. Author Peter Bebergal sees the influence of the occult in rock music from The Beatles to Black Sabbath and...
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