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The True Black Metal - The Hidden Truth About Satanism In Extreme Metal Music (Paperback): Antoine Grand The True Black Metal - The Hidden Truth About Satanism In Extreme Metal Music (Paperback)
Antoine Grand
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Black Metal Blasphemy - A History Of Third Wave Black Metal: The Untold History Behind The Third Wave Of Black Metal... Black Metal Blasphemy - A History Of Third Wave Black Metal: The Untold History Behind The Third Wave Of Black Metal (Paperback)
Antoine Grand
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The dark arts of satanic black metal have always fascinated, both by the music and the blasphemous imagery. In his novel "Black Metal Blasphemy: A History Of Third Wave Black Metal," expert author Antoine Grand explores the darkest realms of third wave black metal and takes you on a journey into the minds of the occult. The most wicked secrets of third wave black metal, the most extreme form of black metal, will be revealed in this book. Join the blackness...

Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil (Book): Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil (Book)
Avenged Sevenfold
R794 R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Save R86 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

All 11 tracks from the 2005 release by this California heavy metal band. Includes: Bat Country * Burn It Down * M.I.A. * Seize the Day * Sidewinder * Trashed and Scattered * The Wicked End * and more. PARENTAL ADVISORY FOR EXPLICIT LYRICS

No Sleep 'til Sudbury - Adventures in 80s Hard Rock and Metal Deconstruction (Paperback): Brent Jensen No Sleep 'til Sudbury - Adventures in 80s Hard Rock and Metal Deconstruction (Paperback)
Brent Jensen
R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A refreshingly no-holds-barred narrative look at what it was like growing up in the 80s as a hard rock and heavy metal fan in a small northern Ontario town. The rock history is here and some academic treatise is included as well, but these aspects are uniquely woven together with personal experiences and biting commentary to make No Sleep 'til Sudbury a highly entertaining observation of the power of musical nostalgia as a pop cultural force.

Metallica - Ride the Lightning - Play it Like it is Bass (Book): Metallica Metallica - Ride the Lightning - Play it Like it is Bass (Book)
Metallica
R533 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

(Bass Guitar Series). Matching folio to Metallica's second album, including: Creeping Death * Fade To Black * and more.

Dance Of The Death (Book): Dance Of The Death (Book)
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Arranged for guitar tablature and standard notation with complete lyrics and chord symbols. Songs include: Wildest Dream, Rainmaker, No More Lies, Dance of Death, Gates of Tomorrow, Journeyman and many more.

Iron Maiden - Brave New World Guitar Tab Edition (Paperback): Iron Maiden - Brave New World Guitar Tab Edition (Paperback)
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Dead Straight Guide to Led Zeppelin (Paperback, New): Nigel Williamson The Dead Straight Guide to Led Zeppelin (Paperback, New)
Nigel Williamson 1
R437 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R173 (40%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the first books in this new series, this pocket guide features the story of Led Zeppelin: from the first meeting of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant to the untimely death of John Bonham; the music: their fifty best songs unpicked and coverage of their solo careers; and the passengers, collaborators, colleagues, and the cargo: films, places, myths, and memorabilia.

Metallica - Fuel & Fire -- The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Metallica (Paperback): Sem Hadland Metallica - Fuel & Fire -- The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Metallica (Paperback)
Sem Hadland
R509 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R172 (34%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Book and CD. The complete history -- starting where it all began. A comprehensive discography with listings of several hundred official albums, CDs, singles, promos, limited editions and bootlegs all with pictures and cover scans. A complete list of all the cover songs Metallica have ever played, in the studio or on stage. A family tree telling you where the band members have played before they joined Metallica, and where they went when they left. An exclusive interview disc and sixteen pages of colour.

Rockers and Rollers - A Full-Throttle Memoir (Paperback): Brian Johnson Rockers and Rollers - A Full-Throttle Memoir (Paperback)
Brian Johnson
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

By night, Brian Johnson sings in the biggest rock 'n' roll band on the planet. But by day, AC/DC's frontman drives balls to the wall.

When he was a young boy growing up in a working-class English town, Brian developed what would become a lifelong passion for cars, trolling junkyards and even pretending to drive the family car. From there, he steamed up the windows of his old Mini Cooper as a teenager, spent untold time in hygienically challenged tour buses, was chauffeured in leather-trimmed limos, and raced cars to a checkered flag.

Featuring guest stars Cliff Williams, Malcolm and Angus Young, and many, many others--even Arnold Schwarzenegger--Rockers and Rollers is a tribute to Brian's obsession with four wheels. By turns surprising, poignant, funny, and maybe a little bit bawdy, these are the stories of a man who drives as hard as he rocks.

Access All Areas - Stories from a Hard Rock Life (Hardcover): Scott Ian Access All Areas - Stories from a Hard Rock Life (Hardcover)
Scott Ian
R622 R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Save R58 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Scott Ian, rhythm guitarist and cofounder of Anthrax and author of I'm the Man, collects all of his craziest hard rock stories into one balls-to-the-wall volume. Access All Areas has tales of humor, excess, fun, debauchery, food, booze, and mayhem from Scott's many years on the road as well as his encounters with celebrities like Dimebag Darrell, Trent Reznor/NIN, Madonna, Lemmy Kilmister, John Carpenter, Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Slayer, David Lee Roth, and many more. In recent years, Scott Ian's "Speaking Words" club tours have drawn a devoted crowd of metal fans who love a good rock story. Ian has perfected his delivery, comic timing, and ability to highlight where the ridiculous meets the sublime. Best of all, Ian seems to lack the ability to be embarrassed, rendering Access All Areas howlingly funny, self-deprecating, and every bit as brash and brazen as one would expect from one of the original architects of speed metal.

Judas Priest: A Visual Biography (Hardcover): Martin Popoff Judas Priest: A Visual Biography (Hardcover)
Martin Popoff
R1,731 R1,393 Discovery Miles 13 930 Save R338 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Slipknot (Book): Slipknot Slipknot (Book)
Slipknot
R601 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Our matching folio to Slipknot's eponymous major label debut features these Des Moines masked marauders at their mega-aggro best Includes photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 14 songs: Diluted * Eeyore * Eyeless * Liberate * Me Inside * No Life * Only One * Prosthetics * Scissors * (Sic) * Spit It Out * Surfacing * Tattered and Torn * Wait and Bleed.

Metallica (Paperback, Reprinted edition): Paul Stenning Metallica (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
Paul Stenning
R435 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Heavy-metal survivors Metallica are one of the most important bands on the planet. Formed in 1981, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Lars Ulrich have sustained their reign over the hearts and minds of millions of devoted fans for over three decades. Rock journalist Paul Stenning comes face to face with this particular breed of monster to reveal the unique blend of fearless reinvention, integrity and resilience that have ensured Metallica s unrivaled status as multi-platinum-selling metal royalty with a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The personal tragedy, petty rivalries and all-consuming addictions that have threatened to eclipse the band s blistering achievement at every step are no secret from the tragic loss of bassist Cliff Burton in 1986 to the remaining members prolonged mistreatment of new recruit Jason Newsted, Hetfield s life-threatening alcoholism and Ulrich s relentless pursuit of success at any price. In the wake of Metallica s resounding comeback with 2008 LP "Death Magnetic," this book takes an incisive look at all they ve survived and the classic albums they recorded while doing so, including the adrenaline-fueled thrash of debut "Kill Em All" and the infectious, radio-borne riffs of mainstream crossover the "Black Album." Stripping away decades of empty hype, "Metallica: All That Matters" uncovers every last detail of Metallica s chequered past, chronicling the highs and lows that took the group from stadium to courtroom to rehab, whilst attempting to unravel some of the most profound contradictions of all. Featuring unseen interviews from forgotten friends and ex-lovers, this is the complete, no-holds-barred guide to the band all that matters for Metallica fans of every generation.

Entertain Us - The Rise of Nirvana (Book): Gillian G. Gaar Entertain Us - The Rise of Nirvana (Book)
Gillian G. Gaar 1
R467 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

(Book). Nirvana is one of the most influential bands in rock history, and even now, nearly 20 years after Kurt Cobain's death, the reverence in which they are held is undiminished. Books have been written about Nirvana before, but they tend to concentrate on the band's superstar period and Kurt Cobain's demise, while skating over the early years. In Entertain Us, Gillian Gaar redresses the balance by examining in forensic detail the band's rise to fame, and their first album, Bleach . Drawing on archive material and interviews with many key people in the story, she traces Nirvana's formation, its early recordings and many personnel changes, and the arrival of Dave Grohl to complete the familiar three-piece line up. By critiquing every song the band recorded in this period, tracing influences and unpicking complex relationships between band members, associates and record labels, Gaar gets to the heart of a compelling story.

The Tallowmere Annual (Hardcover): Keaton Henson The Tallowmere Annual (Hardcover)
Keaton Henson
R1,443 R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Save R148 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Tallowmere Annual is a unique collection of words, sound, and ink paintings by musician and artist Keaton Henson. This hardback, special limited edition, mixed-media book tells the fragmented story of a town that never existed, Tallowmere, seemingly empty, showing only outlines of living things, words once spoken, and the sounds of distant mourning. The first of its kind, the book's front cover holds an MP3 pack embedded with an audio jack for headphones and sound controls. Readers can plug in and listen to a recorded score created specially by Keaton as an accompaniment to reading the book and viewing the artwork. Visit www.welcometotallowmere.com for more information. Detailed Specification: Cover: Cased edition with scuff proof matt lamination, 4-colour with spot UV front and back Insides: End papers: black, 140gsm uncoated wood-free paper, 128 pages, 157 gsm matt art paper in sewn sections Original artworks created by Keaton: India ink on paper. Black and white striped head and tail bands Battery pack features: Embedded in cardboard panel on front inside cover, 3x AAA batteries supplied with each pack, removable batteries, On/off switch Audio playback features: Audio chip has play/stop button and volume controls, audio lasts for approx. 20 mins, audio jack to be inserted centrally into the bottom of the cased cover. The Tallowmere Annual was shortlisted for 'The Futurebook of the Year' at The Booksellers Futurebook Live Awards 2018.

Belzebubs (Hardcover): JP Ahonen Belzebubs (Hardcover)
JP Ahonen
R403 R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Save R69 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Belzebubs is a "trve kvlt mockumentary" focusing on the everyday challenges of family life: raising kids, running a small business, and making time for worship. Except the kids are named Lilith and Leviathan, the business is a blackmetal band, and the worship... isn't exactly aimed upstairs. In a few short years, what started out as improvised socialmedia doodles has now become a wildly successful webcomic with hundreds of thousands of fans. The irresistible cartooning of JP Ahonen (Sing No Evil) combines relatable sliceoflife humor with overthetop occult antics and references from metal music to Lovecraftian horror, making Belzebubs a devil of a good time. The official Belzebubs tiein music CD comes out January 2019 through Century Media (the world's largest heavy metal record label). Has over 200,000 Facebook fans. For fans of Adult Swim's Metalocalypse and other lighthearted spoofs of heavy metal & the occult (which includes pretty much everyone in those subcultures)

Kickstart My Heart - A Motley Crew Day-by-Day (Hardcover): Martin Popoff Kickstart My Heart - A Motley Crew Day-by-Day (Hardcover)
Martin Popoff
R957 R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Save R168 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

EKickstart My Heart: A Metley Crde Day-by-DayE is an exciting chronology that celebrates in innovative form a through the use of day-by-day entries and supporting band quotes mostly collected firsthand by the author as well as memorabilia shots and photography a the crazy lives lived by Vince Mick Nikki and Tommy at the booze-drenched apex of the rock-'n'-roll food chain. Augmented with entries that help place the band in a wider rock context Popoff presents a swift-moving action-packed symphony of text and visuals that reprises his collaboration with Backbeat on similarly structured titles about Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne. With very few Metley Crde-related books on the market EKickstart My HeartE will likely serve for years to come as the most complete a and completely party-hardy a celebration of this band now 35 years on and in the midst of completing its final tour ever.

Precious Metal - Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces (Paperback): Albert Mudrian Precious Metal - Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces (Paperback)
Albert Mudrian; Edited by Albert Mudrian
R549 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"Decibel "magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around.

"Precious Metal" gathers pieces from "Decibel"'s most popular feature, the monthly "Hall of Fame" which documents the making of landmark metal albums via candid, hilarious, and fascinating interviews with every participating band member.

"Decibel"'s editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian, has selected and expanded the best of these features, creating a definitive collection of stories behind the greatest extreme metal albums of all time.

Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell" * Diamond Head's "Lightning to the Nations" * Slayer's "Reign in Blood" * Napalm Death's "Scum" * Repulsion's "Horrifed" * Morbid Angel's "Altars of Madness" * Obituary's "Cause of Death" * Entombed's "Left Hand Path" * Paradise Lost's "Gothic" * Carcass' "Necroticism- Descanting the Insalubrious" * Cannibal Corpse's "Tomb of the Mutilated "* Eyehategod's "Take as Needed for Pain "* Darkthrone's "Transilvanian Hunger "* Kyuss's "Welcome to Sky Valley "* Meshuggah's "Destroy Erase Improve "* Monster Magnet's "Dopes to Infinity "* At the Gates' "Slaughter of the Soul "* Opeth's "Orchid" * Down's "NOLA" * Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse "* Sleep's "Jerusalem" * The Dillinger Escape Plan's "Calculating Infinity "* Botch's "We Are the Romans "* Converge's "Jane Doe "

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition): Corey Taylor A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
Corey Taylor
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Slipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor's New York Times bestselling journey into the world of ghosts and the supernatural Corey Taylor has seen a lot of unbelievable things. However, many of his most incredible experiences might just shock you. For much of his life, the Grammy Award-winning singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour has brushed up against the supernatural world. Those close encounters impacted his personal evolution just as much as headlining at Castle Donington in front of 100,000 people at Download Festival or debuting at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Since growing up in Iowa, his own curiosity drew him into situations that would've sent most people screaming scared and running for the hills. He's ballsy enough to go into the darkness and deal with the consequences, though. As a result, he's seen ghosts up close and personal, whether while combing through an abandoned house in his native Iowa as a child or recording an album in the fabled Houdini Hollywood Hills mansion. He's also got the memories (and scars) to prove it. For some reason, he can't seem to shake these spectral stories, and that brings us to this little tome right here... A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven compiles Taylor's most intimate, incredible, and insane moments with the supernatural. His memories are as vivid as they are vicious. As he recounts these stories, he questions the validity of religious belief systems and two-thousand-year-old dogma. As always, his rapid-fire writing, razor-sharp sense of humor, unbridled honesty, and cozy anecdotes make quite the case for his point. You might end up believing him or not. That's up to you. Either way, you're in for a hell of a ride.

When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11 - Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal (Paperback): Philip Moriarty When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11 - Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal (Paperback)
Philip Moriarty 1
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There are deep and fascinating links between heavy metal and quantum physics. No, really! While teaching at the University of Nottingham, physicist Philip Moriarty noticed something odd, a surprising number of his students were heavily into metal music. Colleagues, too: a Venn diagram of physicists and metal fans would show a shocking amount of overlap. What's more, it turns out that heavy metal music is uniquely well-suited to explaining quantum principles. In When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to Eleven, Moriarty explains the mysteries of the universe's inner workings via drum beats and feedback: You'll discover how the Heisenberg uncertainty principle comes into play with every chugging guitar riff, what wave interference has to do with Iron Maiden, and why metalheads in mosh pits behave just like molecules in a gas. If you're a metal fan trying to grasp the complexities of quantum physics, a quantum physicist baffled by heavy metal, or just someone who'd like to know how the fundamental science underpinning our world connects to rock music, this book will take you, in the words of Pantera, to "A New Level." For those who think quantum physics is too mind-bendingly complex to grasp, or too focused on the invisibly small to be relevant to our full-sized lives, this funny, fascinating book will show you that physics is all around us . . . and it rocks.

AC DC's Highway To Hell (Paperback): Joe Bonomo AC DC's Highway To Hell (Paperback)
Joe Bonomo
R281 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a brilliant study of the creation, impact, and legacy of one of rock's great albums, and a hymn to the nature of teenage fandom. Released in 1979, AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal behavior, branding the album with the fun chaos of alcoholic excess and its flip side, early death. The best songs on "Highway To Hell" achieve Sonic Platonism, translating rock & roll's transcendent ideals in stomping, dual-guitar and eighth-note bass riffing, a Paleolithic drum bed, and insanely, recklessly odd but fun vocals. Joe Bonomo strikes a three - chord essay on the power of adolescence, the durability of rock & roll fandom, and the transformative properties of memory. Why does "Highway To Hell" matter to anyone beyond non-ironic teenagers? Blending interviews, analysis, and memoir with a fan's perspective, "Highway To Hell" dramatizes and celebrates a timeless album that one critic said makes 'disaster sound like the best fun in the world.' 'A growing Alexandria of rock criticism' - "Los Angeles Times", 2008. 'Ideal for the rock geek who thinks liner notes just aren't enough - "Rolling Stone". 'A brilliant series...each one a word of real love' - "NME"(UK).

Van Halen Rising - How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal (Paperback): Greg Renoff Van Halen Rising - How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal (Paperback)
Greg Renoff
R554 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Caravan of Pain (Paperback): Scott Alderman Caravan of Pain (Paperback)
Scott Alderman
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Orbit - Icons of Rock and Roll: Volume #3: Metallica, Moetley Crue, Ozzy and George Harrison (Paperback): Michael Frizell Orbit - Icons of Rock and Roll: Volume #3: Metallica, Moetley Crue, Ozzy and George Harrison (Paperback)
Michael Frizell; Contributions by Jayfri Hashim
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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