Reviewed: June, 2020 Published: 2020, ECW Press Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP I must admit when I heard that Popoff was writing a fourth(!) book about Rush I rolled my eyes. I felt he was going back to the well a bit too often and doing another book about a band…
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Spracklen, Kark Metal Music And The Re-Imagining Of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation (Book Review)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Published: 2020, Emerald Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP The good people at Emerald Publishing continue to support the advancement of metal studies with another book in their series ‘Emerald Studies In Metal Music And Culture’. Metal Music And The Re-Imagining Of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation is…
Popoff, Martin-Denim And Leather (Book Review)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Published: 2020, PowerChord Press Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP This book is long, long overdue. The band has been going 40 years now and finally someone took it upon themselves to write a book about them, and it is not much surprise that it is Canadian Metal, not-so-madman,…
De Leaumont, Don- SouthEast Of Heaven (Book Review)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Published: 2020, Indie Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP I’ve talked a lot of about Metalographies in my book reviews lately, these types of books are becoming more and more popular and seem to be coming fast and furious onto the market. SOUTHEAST OF HEAVEN is the latest one,…
Varas-Diaz, Nelson & Scott, Niall, (ed) – Heavy Metal Music and The Communal Experience (Book Review)
Reviewed: May, 2020 Released: 2016, Lexington Books Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP As regular readers of The Library Of Loudness may have noted, I enjoy reading and reviewing academic studies of Metal. HEAVY METAL MUSIC AND THE COMMUNAL EXPERIENCE was issued in an expensive hard cover back in 2016 and…
Vincent, David I Am Morbid (Book Review)
Review Date: May 2020 Released: 2020/Jawbone Rating: 4/5 Review: JP Autobiographies by extreme Metal musicians are quite rare but as more and more ‘extreme’ bands age, we are seeing more of these types of autobiographies being published. David Vincent’s first book is, I believe, the first autobiography by an old-school…
Brutus, Lou-Sonic Warrior (Book Review)
Released: 2020 Publisher: Rare Bird books Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP I was a little hesitant going into this book. It is the autobiography of Lou Brutus. I had no idea who this guy is, never heard of him before, but the publicist said it was a good rock story and…
Groghan, Brad-Soundtrack Of Our Youth (Book Review)
Review Date: April 2020 Released: 2018/print on demand Label: Independent Rating: 4/5 Review: JP While we are all fans of music to one degree or another there are those individuals who truly super-fans. These people want to contribute something back and share their love of a certain band or genre.…
Epica-The Essence Of Epica (Book review)
Review Date: April 2020 Released: 2019 Publisher: Rocket88 Rating: 4.5/5 Review: JP Rocket88 has been around for a few years now but in my mind they are one of the most exciting new metal-friendly publishers. Some call it marketing to a niche, some call it ‘boutique’ but however you describe it…
Megadeth-Death By Design (Book Review)
Review Date: April 2020 Released: 2019 Publisher: Heavy Metal Rating: 4.5/5 Review: JP 2019 was the 35th anniversary of thrash titans, Megadeth. To commemorate the milestone the band issued a pair of items, a CD and a book. The CD, is a triple disc, 35 track, ‘Best of’ called WARHEADS…
Swinford, Dean-Death Metal Epic II-Goat Song Sacrifice (Book Review)
Reviewed: April 2020 Released: 2017, Publisher: Atlatl Press Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP The vast majority, (99% or higher) of publications about Heavy Metal are non-fiction. So when a Metal themed fiction piece is published it always catches my eye. In this case the publication in question is the Death Metal…
O’Brien, Anna-Marie, Adventures Of A Metalhead Librarian (Book review)
Review Date: April 2020 Released: 2019 Publisher: Independent Rating: 4/5 Review: JP There is a growing field of work that I have dubbed ‘Metalographies’. This term is used to define a book written by someone who chose to write their memoirs or autobiography but primarily framed it in a Metal…
Rowe, Paula-Heavy Metal Youth Identities (Book Review)
Reviewed: April 2020 Released: 2018, Publisher: Emerald Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP It is no secret that the academic study of Metal has grown immensely in the past few years. Organizations like the International Society for Metal Music Studies, academic conferences held annually around the world, documentaries, and the now regular…
Maspero, Davide. & Rubric, Max.-Wolves Among Sheep (Book Review)
Review Date: April 2020 Released: 2013 (Italian), 2015 (English) Publisher: Tsunami Edizioni Rating: 4.5/5 Review: JP Black Metal is one of the more, shall we say… anti-social, misanthropic sub-genres of Metal and NSBM even moreso. Due to the transgressive nature of the imagery, lyrics and presentation of National Socialist Black…
Popoff, Martin-Black Funeral (Book Review)
Reviewed: March 2020 Released: 2020, Publisher: PowerChord Press Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP I must admit I’ve written so many reviews of great books by Martin Popoff it is getting harder and harder to try to keep my comments, original and interesting and ‘fresh’, which is a word not often deployed…