Book: Sound of the Beast (Christe, 2004).

Sound of the Beast : The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

Christe, Ian. 2004. Sound of the Beast : The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. 1st pbk. ed. New York: HarperCollins.
ISBN 9780380811274, 0380811278

Review
A very enjoyable book: good editorial selection at HarperCollins. I may not be an avid collector of Heavy Metal music (Country, Blues and Boogie are more my style!) but I do enjoy reading books about other genres from the last 100 years or so.
Christe acknowledges Black Sabbath as the foundation of Heavy Metal (definitely not Steeley Dan!); the writes the rest of the book around Metallica. Given the pages devoted in the rest of the book to Metallica (an American band), I could nominate Christe as a Metallica fanboy. However, I acknowledge that Metallica were probably the band responsible for bringing Heavy Metal to the largest audience, based in the USA.
Most chapters contain text boxes for defining sub-genres and giving a discography of examples. There is a two-page timeline graphic at the beginning of the book; and the index has been well-researched. Given time, I could see myself re-reading this in a few years as a refresher.

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Christe, Ian. 2004. Sound of the Beast : The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal.. 1st pbk. ed. New York: HarperCollins.

Footnotes:
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From 2023 I am using the author-date referencing style of Chicago author-date (17th edition).
Reference List / In-Text Citation Styles in Chicago author-date (17th edition)
Reference List / In-Text Citation Styles: University of Newcastle, NSW

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