For The Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records
By: Brian Slagel
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time
By: Martin Popoff
4.10
Format: 800 pages, Paperback
The result of an extensive poll asking heavy metal fans to list their favourite high-octane albums,… read more
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2. The Sunset Limited
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement wher… read more
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3. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
By: James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales
3.77
Format: 52 pages,
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4. Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen
By: None
3.84
Format: 352 pages,
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5. What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography
By: Bruce Dickinson
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalis… read more
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6. Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
By: Sammy Hagar
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sammy Hagar--legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of… read more
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7. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
8. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore
By: John Peel , Albert Mudrian
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
This exciting history, featuring an introduction by famed DJ John Peel, tells the two-decade-long h… read more
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9. Rocannon's World
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Adapted & expanded from the short story "The Dowry of Angyar". A world shared by three native human… read more
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10. Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
By: Elvis Costello , Geoff Emerick , Howard Massey
3.00
Format: 81 pages,
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11. Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction
By: None
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Beginning with the creation of Bauhaus's seminal debut hit 'Bela Lugosi's Dead', David J. Haskins o… read more
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12. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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13. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
14. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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15. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
16. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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17. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
18. Rust in Peace: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece
By: Dave Mustaine
3.72
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
FEATURING A FOREWORD BY SLASH A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE MAKING OF MEGADETH'S ICONIC RECORD, … read more
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19. The Lives of Brian
By: Brian Johnson
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Brian Johnson’s memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately repla… read more
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20. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
By: Serj Tankian
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more
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21. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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22. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
By: Geezer Butler
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more
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"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
23. Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes--A Memoir
By: Steve Gorman
4.32
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
Black Crowes drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman shares the band's inside story in this behind-the-s… read more
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24. Confess: The Autobiography
By: Rob Halford
4.40
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The legendary frontman of Judas Priest, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, c… read more
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25. Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
By: Ronnie James Dio
4.15
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Instant National Bestseller The long-awaited autobiography by one of heavy metal’s most revered ic… read more
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26. Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures
By: Rob Halford
4.31
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Metal God, himself, Rob Halford—lead vocalist of Judas Priest and author of the critically accl… read more
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27. For The Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records
By: Brian Slagel
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Metal Blade Records is the story of Brian Slagel-a metal-obsessed Southern California … read more
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28. The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987-1997
By: David E. Gehlke
4.33
Format: 440 pages, None
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29. Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax
By: Frank Bello
4.05
Format: None pages, None
Frank Bello is an American musician, most notable as bassist for the legendary thrash metal band An… read more
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30. Heavy Tales: The Metal. The Music. The Madness. As lived by Jon Zazula
By: Jon Zazula
3.58
Format: 200 pages, hardcover
Heavy Tales is the detailed, never before told story as lived by Jonny Zazula of how he founded Meg… read more
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