![]() ![]() The author is very passionate about the life and his research is decent, so I don't think anybody can top him knowledge wise. Her message read:īut I digress, I'm getting off the topic of reviewing the book here. And I will never forget the first text I got from my wife: I'd recommended she watch LIVING DEAD GIRL on YouTube. Currently, my ringtone is CHOP SUEY by System of a Down. Back then, it was my ringtone on my cellphone, she was into heavier music than me. I have a friend who passed away shortly after we left school and he will forever be linked to Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath and Manowar - my introduction to the heavier stuff.Ī song by Union Underground (which was used as the theme song for WWE RAW for a long time), broke the ice when I met my wife. It was very informative and interesting - to me - since I have a passion for music and constantly attach it to memories. While I knew about 90% of the bands mentioned in the first third of the book, I don't think I've even heard of 10% in the last third of the book. The reason I have to tell you is, when it comes to recommending this book to people, I think it will be important to (at least) have some fundamental knowledge about heavy metal, or you will totally drown in all the names of bands, songs and albums. ![]() Whenever the vocals of a song makes me think the person must be drowning, smothering or vomiting, or maybe all of them at the same time, it's too heavy for me.Īnd this also means that Andrew O'Neill had something bad to say about most of the bands I love - I couldn't take him too seriously most of the time to feel offended. Let's get something out of the way: I'm a rocker, not a metal-head, which means I like the heavier stuff in general (and this includes some heavy metal as well), but I do have my limits of acceptability. I'll admit it - I think some of the things this guy says is hilarious, which made me enjoy this book more than I thought I would. "There are two types of people in the world: people who like heavy metal, and dicks." Now, in his first book, he takes us on his own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music, the subculture, and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music. ![]() The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies, Satanists and murderers, born-again Christians and teetotallers, stadium-touring billionaires and toilet-circuit journeymen.Īward-winning comedian and life-long heavy metal obsessive Andrew O'Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences, from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet-reading theatre-goers of the Edinburgh Fringe. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cut-throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. The history of heavy metal brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Metallica (SIT DOWN, LARS!), to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. ![]()
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