Reviewed: August, 2020 Published: 2020, PowerChord Press Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP Most Iron Maiden observers will recognize the bands career has had roughly four distinct phases. These are the Di’ Anno years, the classic ‘height of power’ era, the dark Blaze years and the reformation. We can argue about deeper sub-phases…
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Popoff, Martin-Anthem (Book Review)
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…
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,…
Denim and Leather: Saxon’s First Ten Years by Martin Popoff Out Now
The glory, the power, the moustaches, the cravats and bandannas… Denim and Leather: Saxon’s First Ten Years …has arrived at the office and is ready for signing and shipping. For easy BuyNow PayPal buttons for the US, Canada and international, go here: www.martinpopoff.com/html/denim-and-leather-saxons-first-ten-years.html If…
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…
Popoff, Martin – Sensitive To Light: The Rainbow Story (Book review)
December 2019 Released: 2019/ PowerChord Press Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP I’ll preface this by saying, I enjoy Martin’s writing, I have loved virtually everything he has ever written and consider myself a loyal supporter, fan and friend. However, sometimes, not often, but at times I get this creeping feeling that…
Popoff, Martin – UFO – Lettin’ Go (Book review)
December 2019 Released: 2019/ PowerChord Press Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP Despite a small and fairly well-received series of North American club dates in 2019, the band UFO really is on their last legs. Members are dying or quitting, and the end is nigh. I suppose this is a good a…
Holy Smoke: IRON MAIDEN In The 90’s by MARTIN POPOFF Shipping Now!
Calling all Gen ‘Exbangers! My new book Holy Smoke: Iron Maiden in the ‘90s has just arrived at the office and is ready for signing and shipping. It’s the follow-up to Where Eagles Dare: Iron Maiden in the ‘80s (which are pretty much gone) with matching design and style, same…
MARTIN POPOFF Publishes New Book Entitled “Sensitive to Light: The Rainbow Story”
Folks, even if you have my little Rainbow book from 2005, I urge you to consider this massive overhaul. – First off, this book is 50% longer, a whopping 120,000 words and 318 pages – No pictures in the old one – two swell colour sections of photos…
Popoff, Martin-Where Eagles Dare Iron Maiden in the 80’s (Book Review)
Where Eagles Dare (Book review) Published: 2019, PowerChord Press Reviewed: October, 2019 Reviewer: JP Rating: 3.5/5 Is there such thing as ‘Metal Fatigue’? The True Metal warrior in me shouts….NEVER! However, even I must admit even I had a very slight (very slight) amount of trepidation in tackling reading and reviewing…
MARTIN POPOFF Releases IRON MAIDEN book: Where Eagles Dare: Iron Maiden in the ’80s
Calling all ‘Edbangers! My new book Where Eagles Dare: Iron Maiden in the ‘80s has just arrived—box upon box—and is ready for signing and shipping. It’s a hefty 288 pages, with my usual tipped-in sections of colour photography, every song examined deeply and all that. You’ve all been very…
Popoff, Martin-Ace’s High (Book review)
Author: Martin Popoff Title: Aces High-The Top 250 Metal Songs of the 80’s Publisher: Powerchord Press Released: 2019 Reviewed: June 2019 Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: JP I probably should not be writing the review for this book for a couple of reasons, mostly my triple bias. One Martin Popoff…
Aces High: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the ‘80s-Available now!!
Aces High: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the ‘80s As the back cover sez… Aces High: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the ‘80s is the heavier, hairier follow-up to Riff Raff: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the ‘70s and yes, things have intensified. The…
Popoff, Martin- Judas Priest-Turbo ‘Til Now (Book Review)
Author: Martin Popoff Title: Judas Priest-Turbo ’til Now Publisher: PowerChord Press Year: 2019 Year Reviewed: 2019 Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Quite quickly on the heels of part one of the Judas Priest story, DECADE OF DOMINATION published in 2018, FROM TURBO TIL NOW is now available. I’ve written so many…
Popoff, Martin-Born Again! (Book Review)
Author: Martin Popoff Title: Born Again! Black Sabbath In The Eighties and Nineties. Publisher: PowerChord Press Released: 2018 Reviewed: March 2019 Reviewer: JP Rating: 4/5 Last month I reviewed Part I (SABOTAGE) of this two-part series about Black Sabbath. In that review grumbled a bit about being tired of reading…