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Christie is damn sure that without the original Black Sabbath, heavy metal either wouldn't have endured or would sound a lot different, and the first part of this book is a paean to Ozzy, Geezer, and the lads. Eventually, he reins in the adoration to deliver an insightful history of this music that critics and parents love to hate. If he has a simplistic view of heavy metal's genesis, he compensates for it with his wide-ranging, subgenre-by-subgenre discussion. The rhythmic ghouls and Odin worshipers in the Scandinavian black metal movement (see also Moynihan and Soderlind's Lords of Chaos, 1998) are well covered, and so is Metallica (natch). Conservative media watchdog and nihilistic teen faves Celtic Frost, Dokken, Motley Crue, and Megadeth are all evaluated and placed. There is even a 25-best albums list, so's to provoke heated discussion (no Led Zep seems counterintuitive). For the possible hole in your collection that AC/DC, Slayer, and Bathory ought to fill, this is a dandy plug. And if there is no such hole, add it anyway. Mike Tribby
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Adult/High School-MTV's Headbanger's Ball, which debuted in 1987, was canceled in 1995-metal was officially "over." But it has returned to the schedule, and metal is making a comeback. In Christe's exhaustive history, readers watch metal rise, fall, change, and splinter into a massive number of genres (death metal, black metal, thrash metal, and more). As in David Konow's Bang Your Head (Three Rivers, 2002), the story begins with Black Sabbath (as if there would be any other choice); but while Konow kept to the well known, Christe gives just as much attention to the fringes. Also unlike Konow, he eschews gossip for almost scholarly explanations of the musicians' creative process and their works. Through it all, he shows the impact of competing forces (like punk, grunge, and rap). Chapters are arranged chronologically but also by genre, and each one is packed with black-and-white photographs and "genre boxes" that list the definitive recordings, ending with the author's choice for the 25 best metal albums of all time. The book is well indexed. New metal fans will run to the music store not only because of the knowledge gained from this volume, but also because of the enthusiastic (though sometimes a little overwrought) way the author shares it.
Jamie Watson, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
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Jamie Watson, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
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Ich habe mir dieses Buch gekauft, da ich es für ein Englisch-Projekt in der Schule benötigte und weil ich selbst ein großer Metal Fan bin und mich die Geschichte des Metals interessierte. Im Buch werden die Anfänge des Genres in Großbritannien und den USA beschrieben (Black Sabbath und Led Zeppelin) und danach beginnt man die einzelnen Musikstile zu beschreiben und zu erklären. Das Facettenreichtum dieses Buches ist gigantisch! Es wir von Subgenres berichtet, die man noch nie gehört hat und man wird wie magisch in die Metal-Welt verführt.
Einziger Kritikpunkt: Ian Christie spart sehr mit Kritik, weil er aus der Sicht eines Fans schreibt.
Fazit: Dieses in Englisch geschriebene Buch sollte bei jedem Headbanger im Regal stehen, weil es wirklich einen guten Einblick in die Metal-Welt gewährt.
I bought this book, because I needed it for a English-project in school and because I am such a big Metal fan. I was also interested in the history of metal. The book describes the beginnings of the Genre in Great Britain and the USA (with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin) and after that it shows a lot of other subgenres of Heavy Metal. The rich diversity in this book is gigantic! You get told about Subgenres, that you have never heard before and "The Sound of the Beast" entraps you into the Metalworld.
Critic: The author Ian Christie isn't very critical and writes obvisously from the view of a fan.
Facit: This book should be in every frame of a Headbanger, because it really gives you a great view into the metalworld.
Einziger Kritikpunkt: Ian Christie spart sehr mit Kritik, weil er aus der Sicht eines Fans schreibt.
Fazit: Dieses in Englisch geschriebene Buch sollte bei jedem Headbanger im Regal stehen, weil es wirklich einen guten Einblick in die Metal-Welt gewährt.
I bought this book, because I needed it for a English-project in school and because I am such a big Metal fan. I was also interested in the history of metal. The book describes the beginnings of the Genre in Great Britain and the USA (with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin) and after that it shows a lot of other subgenres of Heavy Metal. The rich diversity in this book is gigantic! You get told about Subgenres, that you have never heard before and "The Sound of the Beast" entraps you into the Metalworld.
Critic: The author Ian Christie isn't very critical and writes obvisously from the view of a fan.
Facit: This book should be in every frame of a Headbanger, because it really gives you a great view into the metalworld.
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Ian Christe: Master of Reality
5. Mai 2003
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Having read quite a few music histories and biographies, the one thing that really stands out about Ian Christe's book is the writing; in a word, superb! Many of the reviews of this book that I've read miss this and gripe, simply because their favorite bands did not get enough coverage. Sure I could complain that Black Flag or the Obsessed or Corrosion of Conformity doesn't get enough coverage, but that wouldn't change the fact that Metallica is simply the most important band in metal. Doesn't mean they are the best, but they, more than any other band, are responsible for metal being as popular as it is today. Christe nails it on the head that heavy metal really started with Sabbath (I like Zeppelin, the Who and Hendrix too, but they were rock bands and spawned an entirely different generation of music). EVERY metal band around owes a debt to Sabbath (for the heaviness, the look, and the orchestration). In addition, he does an excellent job of covering the whole metal scene and a brilliant job in breaking down the genre by sub-genre. The fact that bands such as the Accused, Die Kreuzen and Exodus are mentioned is awesome and the depth and breadth of metal knowledge that Christe has accumulated over the years is impressive. If you are interested in the hard rock-punk evolution, read Rock and the Pop Narcotic (Joe Carducci). For metal, this is the book. Hats off to you Ian! Great book!
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A Rich and Detailed Tapestry / A Heavy Metal Treasure
19. April 2003
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Having heard that there was an author out there attempting to summarize the past 33 years of metal in a single volume, I was shocked and awed at the superb quality of the outcome. Christe begins with Black Sabbath I and quickly moves forward with his battle plan -- almost nothing escapes his field of vision along the way. The pop culture moments -- like Van Halen's arrival on the scene, MTV's discovery of metal, Crue's Shout at the Devil, and Metallica's big crossover in the 90s -- float like beacons above a morass of fascinating detail on bands like Celtic Frost, Napalm Death, Sepultura, and the creepy crawlers of Norway. Nobody has done better at depicting the difference between Stryper and Deicide, two bands at the opposite poles of planet metal. If your idea of heavy metal is Guns N Roses, you will enjoy this book immensely -- if you swear by Slayer, Metallica, and Megadeth, Sound of the Beast will outright be your Bible, read and re-read until its pages are tattered and torn.
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Impressive tome for an impressive music
7. Juni 2003
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Sound Of The Beast is an impressive book. Wisely aligning itself, title-wise, with the quintessential heavy metal album of all time, Iron Maiden's Number Of The Beast, Ian Christe's take on thirty-odd years of metal high art accomplishes a lot.
Sound Of The Beast successfully covers the basics and many of the sub-genres of metal. It incorporates literate, yet fluid, writing with a plethora of facts, trivia and lists to make for a compelling read for metal fans old and new. Simultaneously, Christe tackles - albeit superficially given space considerations - the musical movement from several tangents. In this manner, he introduces both a diversion to the purely chronological take on the music and injects something of a discourse into the book. As with most claims, the author's assertion of a 'completeness' to his book is false, but that is par for the course, one supposes. After all, and realistically, no one body of work will ever completely cover 30-plus years of musical and cultural history.
Having said that, the book does stumble more than it needs to. The inordinate amount of space granted Metallica only serves to demonstrate the author's devotion to this band. Otherwise if ever there was a band which had betrayed the ideals of the book's subject-matter, that band would be the aforementioned California metallers-gone-corporate minion. Sound Of... also has its share of mistakes (Metallica fact on page 88, calling AC/DC NWOBHM, etc.), irrelevant features (discussion on non-metal music like punk, mallcore, etc.) and obligatory self-referencing conflict-of-interest (mentioning past and current employers of the author without disclosure).
Be that as it may, Christe has done as good, if not better, a job as any of his peers. The book is well-written and balances the need for information with the necessity to keep the pace congruous with the readers' need for dispatch.
All in all then, Sound Of The Beast is impressive - that is, once one gets past the biography's ludicrous notion that "Ian Christe is the recognized voice of heavy metal."
Sound Of The Beast successfully covers the basics and many of the sub-genres of metal. It incorporates literate, yet fluid, writing with a plethora of facts, trivia and lists to make for a compelling read for metal fans old and new. Simultaneously, Christe tackles - albeit superficially given space considerations - the musical movement from several tangents. In this manner, he introduces both a diversion to the purely chronological take on the music and injects something of a discourse into the book. As with most claims, the author's assertion of a 'completeness' to his book is false, but that is par for the course, one supposes. After all, and realistically, no one body of work will ever completely cover 30-plus years of musical and cultural history.
Having said that, the book does stumble more than it needs to. The inordinate amount of space granted Metallica only serves to demonstrate the author's devotion to this band. Otherwise if ever there was a band which had betrayed the ideals of the book's subject-matter, that band would be the aforementioned California metallers-gone-corporate minion. Sound Of... also has its share of mistakes (Metallica fact on page 88, calling AC/DC NWOBHM, etc.), irrelevant features (discussion on non-metal music like punk, mallcore, etc.) and obligatory self-referencing conflict-of-interest (mentioning past and current employers of the author without disclosure).
Be that as it may, Christe has done as good, if not better, a job as any of his peers. The book is well-written and balances the need for information with the necessity to keep the pace congruous with the readers' need for dispatch.
All in all then, Sound Of The Beast is impressive - that is, once one gets past the biography's ludicrous notion that "Ian Christe is the recognized voice of heavy metal."
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