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Metallica: Enter Night (Hardback)

Mick Wall

£20.00

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Synopsis

Mick Wall moves on from Led Zeppelin to produce a definitive doorstop on Metallica.

Alongside contemporaries Slayer, Megadeath and Anthrax, Metallica came to prominence in the eighties as one of the 'big four' of thrash metal. Metallica were to thrash, though, what the Sex Pistols were to punk. Nearly thirty years on, their tale is one of alcohol, rule breaking and tragically early death. But allied to that are colossal sales figures for their records -- they are the fifth-highest selling recording artists of all time -- and members with backgrounds that touch on jazz and classical music. Metallica, in fact, have garnered more critical acclaim than any heavy rock band since Led Zeppelin. Fresh from the critical and commercial success of When Giants Walked the Earth, Mick Wall takes a similar informed look at the band, a group he has known on and off since their formation in 1981.

Reviews

'So this is the big one: a fat, juicy biography of the biggest band ever...Mick Wall, the veteran rock journalist, lays it all bare in a book that can only be described as definitive'
DAILY TELEGRAPH on When Giants Walked the Earth

'As well as being the most complete account yet of a great British rock band, WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH is, as its name implies, a document of a bygone age...Wall has done his subject proud'
SUNDAY TIMES on When Giants Walked the Earth

'It deftly strikes the balance between lofty authority and finding a way to get inside the heads of its subjects'
GUARDIAN on When Giants Walked the Earth

'This fantastic account of Led Zeppelin's wild and decadent heyday is as detailed and definitive as music biographies get'
LONDON LITE