Heavy Metal Thunder Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums

Name: Heavy Metal Thunder Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums
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ISBN: 9780811853538

ISBN-10: 0811853535

ISBN-13: 9780811853538

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Sherry, Neil Aldis

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Revile it if you will, laugh it off but heavy metal's influence and audience just keep on growing. And nowhere is its brash outrageousness better expressed than on its album covers. This chunky compendium is a dungeonful of metal overload, complete with leather- and spandex-panted, huge-haired rockers, drooling beasts, and plenty of skulls. Charting a visual course of the genre, Heavy Metal Thunder shows the best album art from its youthful incarnation in the late '70s through the MTV era, when glam and hair metal ruled; to the punk-inflected revolutions of thrash and Nu Metal (with a grunge side trip); to the gory contemporary genres of grindcore, black metal, and doom. Page after page of…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date: 5/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.16" wide x 7.12" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Foreword




For Those About to Rock...



Lipstick and Leather



Metal Thrashing Mad


Interview with Derek Riggs



Requiem for Metal



Fuck You, I Won't Do What You Tell Me



Blackened Is The End, Winter It Will Send



Fairies Wear Boots



Planet Rock


Afterword: All Men Play On Ten


Index


Additional Sleeve Credits


Acknowledgments