Lords Of Chaos - 2nd Edition: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
ISBN: 9780922915941 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "* * * * * * The most incredible story in the history of music ... a heavyweight book."--Kerrang "An unusual combination of true crime journalism, rock and roll reporting and underground obsessiveness, Lords of Chaos turns into one of the more fascinating reads in a long time."--Denver Post A narrative feature film based on this award-winning book has just gone into production. "* * * * * * The most incredible story in the history of music ... a heavyweight book."--Kerrang "An unusual combination of true cri... |
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106,87 zł |
Thrash Metal
ISBN: 9780958268431 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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149,57 zł |
Performed Identity- Heavy Metal Musicians Between 1984 and 1991
ISBN: 9783836417709 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Occurring at the juncture of art and commerce, heavy metal music is a purposeful
construction engaging multiple performative realms. Metal musicians make performative choices for serving particular aims, be it fame, wealth, or art. Metal artists are the contracted employees of record labels whose own corporate aims needed to be recognized. For publicity and promotion, bands must acquiesce to the wishes of assorted media entities like radio or television. Functioning within a subcultural genre, artists balance the normative practices of metal musicians while being mindful of the preferences... Occurring at the juncture of art and commerce, heavy metal music is a purposeful
construction engaging multiple performative realms. Metal musicia... |
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288,50 zł |
Death Metal
ISBN: 9780958268448 / Angielski / Miękka / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviled and revered in equal measure since its inception over a decade ago the phenomenon known as Death Metal has pushed Hard Rock music to the very edge of acceptability, and way beyond. Death metal and its bastard offspring Grindcore, has become the pariah of the music world. From the founding fathers Death, Napalm Death, Carcass, Incantation, Impetigo, and Morbid Angel, to the rise of Swedish Death Metal legends In Flames, Carnage and At The Gates, the Black Death Metal of Marduk, the Christian Death Metal of Mortification and the political Noisecore of Agathocles. Every major force in...
Reviled and revered in equal measure since its inception over a decade ago the phenomenon known as Death Metal has pushed Hard Rock music to the very ...
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185,96 zł |
MODERN GUITAR ANTHEMS - RED BOOK
ISBN: 9781843282051 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,47 zł |
Walk This Way: The Autobiography Of Aerosmith
ISBN: 9780753502891 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complete story of Aerosmith; the life, the legends, the truth, the hell, the lost weeks, the women, and the drugs, from overwhelming success followed by dismal failure, to one of the most remarkable comebacks in pop culture history.
The complete story of Aerosmith; the life, the legends, the truth, the hell, the lost weeks, the women, and the drugs, from overwhelming success follo...
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97,28 zł |
The Official Spinal Tap Companion
ISBN: 9780747552840 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes a history of the Spinal Tap band, a transcript of the 1984 rockumentary This is Spinal Tap (including rare out-takes), lyrics, discography and an A-Z guide to this imaginary band.
Includes a history of the Spinal Tap band, a transcript of the 1984 rockumentary This is Spinal Tap (including rare out-takes), lyrics, discography an...
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91,88 zł |
Saxon -- Never Surrender (or Nearly Good Looking): An Autobiography
ISBN: 9783931624446 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An autobiography of Saxon in which he tells his story that starts from his working class childhood as a terribly shy schoolboy in Yorkshire and through the mega-days of the early Eighties to the band's Twenty-First Century rise to fame once more.
An autobiography of Saxon in which he tells his story that starts from his working class childhood as a terribly shy schoolboy in Yorkshire and throug...
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81,42 zł |
Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music
ISBN: 9780313348006 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been reviled, dismissed, attacked, and occasionally been the subject of Congressional hearings, but still, the genre of music known as heavy metal maintains not only its market share in the recording and downloading industry, but also as a cultural force that has united millions of young and old fans across the globe. Characterized by blaring distorted guitars, drum solos, and dramatic vibrato, the heavy metal movement headbanged its way to the popular culture landscape with bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath the 1970s. Motley Crue and Metallica made metal a music phenomenon... It has been reviled, dismissed, attacked, and occasionally been the subject of Congressional hearings, but still, the genre of music known as heavy... |
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356,90 zł |
Heavy Metal in Baghdad: The Story of Acrassicauda
ISBN: 9781416595403 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad featuring the members of Iraq's only heavy metal band--Acrassicauda--and their daily struggle to survive and rock on even as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. Acrassicauda (Latin for a deadly black scorpion) is Iraq's only heavy metal band. Inspired by groups like Metallica, Slayer, and Slipknot, the band began writing and playing metal in 2001, performing a handful of shows before the war started in 2003. With increased security precautions throughout Iraq, it became difficult to practice or even get through a show... documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad featuring the members of Iraq's only heavy metal band--Acrassicauda--and their daily struggle to sur... |
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80,81 zł |
Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces
ISBN: 9780306818066 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around. Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most popular feature, the monthly "Hall of Fame" which documents the making of landmark metal albums via candid, hilarious, and fascinating interviews with every participating band member. Decibel's editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian, has selected and expanded the best of these features, creating a definitive collection of stories behind the greatest extreme metal albums of all time. Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell * Diamond Head's... Decibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around. Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most po... |
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96,69 zł |
Anvil!: The Story of Anvil
ISBN: 9781439176665 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early seventies, when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath ruled the world, Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner, two young Jewish boys from the northern suburbs of Toronto, vowed to rock together forever. A decade later, their band Anvil released one of the heaviest records in music history, Metal on Metal, which influenced a whole musical generation, including the world-dominating bands Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Yet while these bands went on to sell millions of records, Anvil slipped straight into obscurity. Was it too much sex and drugs and not enough rock 'n' roll? Was it the...
In the early seventies, when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath ruled the world, Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner, two young Jewish boys from the north...
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80,81 zł |
No Sleep 'til Sudbury: Adventures in 80s Hard Rock and Metal Deconstruction
ISBN: 9780987715906 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A refreshingly no-holds-barred narrative look at what it was like growing up in the 80s as a hard rock and heavy metal fan in a small northern Ontario town. The rock history is here and some academic treatise is included as well, but these aspects are uniquely woven together with personal experiences and biting commentary to make No Sleep 'til Sudbury a highly entertaining observation of the power of musical nostalgia as a pop cultural force.
A refreshingly no-holds-barred narrative look at what it was like growing up in the 80s as a hard rock and heavy metal fan in a small northern Ontario...
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80,61 zł |
Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits
ISBN: 9780739164594 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death metal is one of popular music's most extreme variants, and is typically viewed as almost monolithically nihilistic, misogynistic, and reactionary. Michelle Phillipov's Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits offers an account of listening pleasure on its own terms. Through an analysis of death metal's sonic and lyrical extremity, Phillipov shows how violence and aggression can be configured as sites for pleasure and play in death metal music, with little relation to the "real" lives of listeners. In some cases, gruesome lyrical themes and fractured song forms invite...
Death metal is one of popular music's most extreme variants, and is typically viewed as almost monolithically nihilistic, misogynistic, and reactionar...
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497,49 zł |
Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World
ISBN: 9780822347330 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for fans around the world. In Metal Rules the Globe, ethnographers and some of the foremost authorities in the burgeoning field of metal studies analyze this dramatic expansion of heavy metal music and culture. They take readers inside metal scenes in Brazil, Canada, China, Easter Island, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Nepal, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, and the United States, describing how the sounds of heavy metal and the meanings that metalheads attribute...
During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for fans around the world. In Me...
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129,73 zł |
Swedish Death Metal
ISBN: 9780979616310 / Angielski / Miękka / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweden is a remote country in the freezing northern Europe, with less than nine million inhabitants and a reputation for Volvos, hockey players, cheap furniture, vodka, and blonde women. Since the late 1980s, however, Sweden has produced over a thousand extreme heavy metal bands, creating one of the most respected regional music scenes in the world. This is the improbable history of how a marginalized teen movement crawled from Sweden's small towns and suburbs, and found a lasting place on the world stage. Daniel Ekeroth captures the epic tale with enlightening detail, beginning with Sweden's...
Sweden is a remote country in the freezing northern Europe, with less than nine million inhabitants and a reputation for Volvos, hockey players, cheap...
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141,29 zł |
Power Chord
ISBN: 9780061964961 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Power Chord is the story of one man's epic pilgrimage to gain rock enlightenment from the gods and guitar heroes of the Golden Age of heavy metal. Author Scott McKenzie set off to make contact with the legendary metal superstars he worshipped in his rural Kentucky youth--men like George Lynch of Dokken, Glen Tipton of Judas Priest, and Ace Frehley of KISS--hoping to gain wisdom and a better understanding of the electric guitar mystique. The result is a veritable treasure trove of enthralling behind-the-scenes stories and "where are they now" revelations that will delight anyone who...
Power Chord is the story of one man's epic pilgrimage to gain rock enlightenment from the gods and guitar heroes of the Golden Age of heavy m...
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67,87 zł |
Metal on Ice: Tales from Canada's Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes
ISBN: 9781459707092 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A musical genre as tough and hard as the Canadian Shield. Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium. The road to Canadian musical glory is not lined with the palm trees and top-down convertibles of the Sunset Strip. It is a road slick with black ice, obscured by blizzards, and littered with moose and deer that could cause peril for a... A musical genre as tough and hard as the Canadian Shield. Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy m... |
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80,81 zł |
Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music
ISBN: 9780813574714 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking new book reveals, white-power music has served as a key recruiting tool for neo-Nazi and racist hate groups worldwide. Reichsrock shines a light on the international white-power music industry, the fandoms it has spawned, and the virulently racist beliefs it perpetuates. Kirsten Dyck not only investigates how white-power bands and...
From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to tak...
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670,53 zł |
Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music
ISBN: 9780813574707 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking new book reveals, white-power music has served as a key recruiting tool for neo-Nazi and racist hate groups worldwide. Reichsrock shines a light on the international white-power music industry, the fandoms it has spawned, and the virulently racist beliefs it perpetuates. Kirsten Dyck not only investigates how white-power bands and...
From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to tak...
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151,36 zł |