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Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Heavy metal & progressive
Featuring never-before-seen photographs of U2 on their first US
Tour, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Danzig, The Descendants, Fugazi, The
Damned, The U.K. Subs, and many, many more Since 1981, Chris
Barrows has taken pictures of bands at their concerts, backstage,
and behind the scenes. From U2 during their first tour in 1982 to
Captain Sensible of The Damned on his knees in an alley licking a
dominatrix's thigh high vinyl boots, or Lee Ving standing on
railroad tracks at night, Barrows' intimate and stirring portraits
of bands stripped down and unguarded will be a wonderful addition
to any music fan's collection.
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D Kershaw, Ben Thomas
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D Kershaw, Ben Thomas
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A grinding celebration of the metal gods Judas Priest in all their
sumptuous glory. A photo-stuffed coffee table book with the entire
fifty plus year history in meticulous timeline order - a rock-hard
reference book, with the facts presented mostly soberly and
efficiently. This book contains all manner of facts that also takes
a detailed look at offshoot bands and side-projects throughout the
visually stunning pages.
Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machine Head have
sold millions of units, earned a Grammy nomination and won personal
awards from Metal Hammer and other magazines. The story is a
classic rise, fall and rise again scenario -- they exploded onto
the metal scene in 1994, enjoyed a successful string of albums and
then lost their way in the nu-metal era. Now they are in the middle
of one of metal's most acclaimed comebacks. Joel McIver has
interviewed all the band-members several times and has a unique
insight into their rollercoaster story, which includes alcohol
addiction, inter-band brawls and therapy, sackings, near-splits and
two decades of the heaviest music known to man, delivered all over
the world.
Denim and Leather is 260 pages of biker metal hail after hail, with
two four-page photo sections, loads of fresh interview content, all
the facts and dates and even some of the hot disputes. As the back
cover crows... Stand Up and Be Counted! Now that there's no more
Motorhead, it's up to Iron Maiden and Saxon to uphold the fine
tradition of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, something both
bands have been doing for over 40 years now. Indeed, 2020 marked
the 40th anniversary of Saxon's landmark Wheels of Steel album, a
record we celebrate in this book with much reverence and many pints
of ale clinked between headbangers clad in both denim and leather.
Of course there's more than that but not everything! Indeed, Denim
and Leather: Saxon's First Ten Years focuses on the band's golden
era, Saxon's prodigious first decade of output. Saxon, Wheels of
Steel, Strong Arm of the Law, Denim and Leather, Power & the
Glory, Crusader, Innocence Is No Excuse, Rock the Nations and
Destiny each are dedicated stand-alone chapters, inside of which
Popoff deconstructs every song across both sides of the original
vinyl, while not forgetting bonus tracks and B-sides, as well as
the live material along the way, including the beloved The Eagle
Has Landed album. It's a glory-bound Saxon-fest that is long
overdue, and it is the hope of the author that at the end of this
sometimes critical examination that the reader returns to these
records with new reflections on the NWOBHM and some of the
detrimental things that came after for many bands, the heroes of
our story included.
This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy
metal music draws on the ancient Greek and Roman world.
Contributors examine bands from across the globe, including: Blind
Guardian (Germany), Therion (Sweden), Celtic Frost, Eluveitie
(Switzerland), Ex Deo (Canada/Italy), Heimdall, Stormlord, Ade
(Italy), Kawir (Greece), Theatre of Tragedy (Norway), Iron Maiden,
Bal-Sagoth (UK), and Nile (US). These and other bands are shown to
draw inspiration from Classical literature and mythology such as
the Homeric Hymns, Vergil's Aeneid, and Caesar's Gallic Wars,
historical figures from Rome and ancient Egypt, and even pagan and
occult aspects of antiquity. These bands' engagements with
Classical antiquity also speak to contemporary issues of
nationalism, identity, sexuality, gender, and globalization. The
contributors show how the genre of heavy metal brings its own
perspectives to Classical reception, and demonstrate that this
music-often dismissed as lowbrow-engages in sophisticated dialogue
with ancient texts, myths, and historical figures. The authors
reveal aspects of Classics' continued appeal while also arguing
that the engagement with myth and history is a defining
characteristic of heavy metal music, especially in countries that
were once part of the Roman Empire.
This multi-disciplinary edited collection explores the textual
analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than
English, including Yiddish, Latin, Russian, Austrian German,
Spanish and Italian. The volume features fascinating chapters on
the role of ancient language in heavy metal, the significance of
metal in minority-language communities, Slovenian mythology in
metal, heavy metal lyrics and politics in the Soviet Union and
Taiwan, processing bereavement in Danish black metal, cultural
identity in Norwegian-medium metal, and the Kawaii metal scene in
Japan, amongst others. Applying a range of methodological
approaches - from literary and content analysis to quantitative
corpus methods and critical approaches - the book conceptualises
various forms of identity via lyrical text and identifies a number
of global themes in heavy metal lyrics, including authenticity,
parody and the desire to sound extreme, that reoccur across
different countries and languages. The book is essential reading
for researchers and students of metal music and culture, as well as
those with broader interests in cultural studies, musicology,
literary studies and popular culture studies.
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