Books about Metal

1.
Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 7,575 ratings
2.
A History of Heavy Metal
A History of Heavy Metal 3.90 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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Metal Cats
Metal Cats 4.08 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal 3.97 avg rating — 2,977 ratings
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I Am Ozzy
I Am Ozzy 4.11 avg rating — 30,638 ratings
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True Norwegian Black Metal
True Norwegian Black Metal 4.46 avg rating — 764 ratings
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota 3.82 avg rating — 13,993 ratings
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Slash
Slash
by: Slash
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30,032 ratings
9.
Swedish Death Metal
Swedish Death Metal 4.24 avg rating — 714 ratings
10.
Rock and Roll Children: An '80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story
Rock and Roll Children: An '80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story 4.19 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath
Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath 4.01 avg rating — 3,898 ratings
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Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal 4.22 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal 3.91 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
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The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade
The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade 4.15 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion 4.08 avg rating — 3,026 ratings
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I Love Led Zeppelin
I Love Led Zeppelin 3.89 avg rating — 487 ratings
17.
The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984–1994
The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984–1994 4.31 avg rating — 301 ratings
18.
We Sold Our Souls
We Sold Our Souls 3.71 avg rating — 30,699 ratings
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Raising Hell: Backstage Tales from the Lives of Metal Legends
Raising Hell: Backstage Tales from the Lives of Metal Legends 3.54 avg rating — 173 ratings
20.
Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography 4.16 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground
Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground 4.29 avg rating — 100 ratings
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White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography
White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography 3.96 avg rating — 9,992 ratings
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Confess: The Autobiography
Confess: The Autobiography 4.40 avg rating — 3,804 ratings
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Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries 4.58 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star 4.14 avg rating — 38,564 ratings
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Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, 1981-1985
Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, 1981-1985 4.53 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by: Tommy Lee
4.14 avg rating — 48,138 ratings
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Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers An Illustrated History
Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers An Illustrated History 4.19 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal 4.06 avg rating — 573 ratings
30.
Iron Maiden - Updated Edition: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Updated Edition: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Beast 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
30.
Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock 3.89 avg rating — 6,532 ratings
32.
Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Long Hard Road Out of Hell 3.81 avg rating — 31,709 ratings
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Hammer of the Gods
Hammer of the Gods 3.86 avg rating — 13,505 ratings
34.
Hooligans
Hooligans 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Death Metal Epic (Book One: The Inverted Katabasis)
Death Metal Epic (Book One: The Inverted Katabasis) 3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore
Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore 3.96 avg rating — 2,066 ratings
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Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums
Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums 4.02 avg rating — 81 ratings
38.
Riff Kills Man! 25 Years of Recorded Hard Rock & Heavy Metal
Riff Kills Man! 25 Years of Recorded Hard Rock & Heavy Metal 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
39.
Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge
Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge 3.89 avg rating — 115 ratings
40.
Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music 3.87 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds 3.77 avg rating — 578 ratings
40.
Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult
Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult 4.29 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
40.
The Scream
The Scream 3.87 avg rating — 561 ratings
44.
Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
44.
Lords of Chaos
Lords of Chaos 3.68 avg rating — 8,664 ratings
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To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton
To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton 4.19 avg rating — 834 ratings
47.
Iron Maiden: Album by Album
Iron Maiden: Album by Album 4.09 avg rating — 126 ratings
47.
The Complete History of Black Sabbath
The Complete History of Black Sabbath 3.91 avg rating — 111 ratings
49.
Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
by: Mick Wall
4.01 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
51.
Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs
Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs 4.09 avg rating — 116 ratings
51.
The Ultimate Metallica
The Ultimate Metallica 4.40 avg rating — 84 ratings
53.
Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture
Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture 3.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
by: Mick Wall
4.01 avg rating — 969 ratings
53.
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin IV 3.61 avg rating — 533 ratings
56.
Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture
Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture 3.64 avg rating — 193 ratings
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LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour
LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour 3.56 avg rating — 472 ratings
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The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal
The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal 4.11 avg rating — 329 ratings
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What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born
What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born 3.51 avg rating — 498 ratings
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The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC
The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC 3.68 avg rating — 469 ratings
61.
The Beast: Singing With Iron Maiden―The Drugs, the Groupies . . . the Whole Story
The Beast: Singing With Iron Maiden―The Drugs, the Groupies . . . the Whole Story 2.95 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography 3.71 avg rating — 469 ratings
63.
A-Z of Thrash Metal
A-Z of Thrash Metal 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Metallica: Enter Night
Metallica: Enter Night
by: Mick Wall
3.98 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
63.
Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Volume II
Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Volume II 4.07 avg rating — 212 ratings
63.
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It 3.46 avg rating — 1,519 ratings
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Murder in the Front Row: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter
Murder in the Front Row: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter 4.56 avg rating — 155 ratings
67.
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson 3.62 avg rating — 296 ratings
69.
Thrash Metal
Thrash Metal 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Appetite for Destruction : Legendary Encounters with Mick Wall
Appetite for Destruction : Legendary Encounters with Mick Wall
by: Mick Wall
3.66 avg rating — 171 ratings
69.
The Periodic Table of Heavy Rock
The Periodic Table of Heavy Rock 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Black Sabbath: Never Say Die! 1979-1997
Black Sabbath: Never Say Die! 1979-1997 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Band That Time Forgot: The Complete Unauthorised Biography of Guns N' Roses
The Band That Time Forgot: The Complete Unauthorised Biography of Guns N' Roses 3.25 avg rating — 211 ratings
73.
American Hair Metal
American Hair Metal 4.05 avg rating — 129 ratings
75.
Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorized Biography
Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorized Biography
by: Mick Wall
4.07 avg rating — 874 ratings
75.
Black Sabbath FAQ: All That's Left to Know on the First Name in Metal
Black Sabbath FAQ: All That's Left to Know on the First Name in Metal 4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
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What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal 3.78 avg rating — 433 ratings
78.
Rockers and Rollers: An Automotive Autobiography
Rockers and Rollers: An Automotive Autobiography 3.82 avg rating — 473 ratings
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The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time
The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time 4.10 avg rating — 186 ratings