From the author of the celebrated classic Louder Than Hell comes an
oral history of the badass Heavy Metal lifestyle-the debauchery,
demolition, and headbanging dedication-featuring metalhead
musicians from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest to Twisted Sister and
Quiet Riot to Disturbed, Megadeth, Throwdown and more. In his song
"You Can't Kill Rock and Roll" Ozzy Osbourne sings, "Rock and roll
is my religion and my law." This is the mantra of the metal legends
who populate Raising Hell-artists from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest,
Slipknot, Slayer, and Lamb of God to Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot,
Disturbed, Megadeth, and many more! It's also the guiding principle
for underground voices like Misery Index, Gorgoroth, Municipal
Waste, and Throwdown. Through the decades, the metal scene has been
populated by colorful individuals who have thwarted convention and
lived by their own rules. For many, vice has been virtue, and the
opportunity to record albums and tour has been an invitation to
push boundaries and blow the lid off a Pandora's box of riotous
experiences: thievery, vandalism, hedonism, the occult, stage
mishaps, mosh pit atrocities, and general insanity. To the figures
in this book, metal is a means of banding together to stick a big
middle finger to a society that had already decided they didn't
belong. Whether they were oddballs who didn't fit in or angry kids
from troubled backgrounds, metal gave them a sense of identity.
Drawing from 150-plus first-hand interviews with vocalists,
guitarists, bassists, keyboardists, and drummers, music journalist
Jon Wiederhorn offers this collection of wild shenanigans from
metal's heaviest and most iconic acts-the parties, the tours, the
mosh pits, the rage, the joy, the sex, the drugs . . . the heavy
metal life! Horns up!
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