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Metal Books
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Lords of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as metal)
avg rating 3.67 — 8,875 ratings — published 1998
I Am Ozzy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as metal)
avg rating 4.17 — 35,775 ratings — published 2009
Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult (Extreme Metal)
by (shelved 20 times as metal)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,293 ratings — published 2013
Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as metal)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,120 ratings — published 2004
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as metal)
avg rating 3.69 — 33,789 ratings — published 2018
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as metal)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,024 ratings — published 2003
Swedish Death Metal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as metal)
avg rating 4.25 — 740 ratings — published 2007
Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as metal)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,175 ratings — published 2011
White Line Fever: The Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as metal)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,355 ratings — published 2002
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as metal)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,474 ratings — published 2013
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as metal)
avg rating 3.81 — 32,266 ratings — published 1998
Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as metal)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,831 ratings — published 2010
True Norwegian Black Metal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as metal)
avg rating 4.46 — 771 ratings — published 2008
Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as metal)
avg rating 3.99 — 305 ratings — published 2009
A History of Heavy Metal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as metal)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,037 ratings — published
Confessions of a Heretic: The Sacred and the Profane: Behemoth and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as metal)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,473 ratings — published 2012
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as metal)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,633 ratings — published
Confess: The Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as metal)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,111 ratings — published 2020
Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as metal)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,320 ratings — published 2012
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as metal)
avg rating 4.14 — 39,690 ratings — published 2007
Dark Days: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as metal)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,012 ratings — published 2014
Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as metal)
avg rating 4.27 — 108 ratings — published 2014
Blod, eld, död: en svensk metalhistoria (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as metal)
avg rating 4.12 — 606 ratings — published 2011
I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as metal)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,595 ratings — published 2014
Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as metal)
avg rating 4.58 — 268 ratings — published 2011
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as metal)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,855 ratings — published 2001
Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, 1981-1985 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as metal)
avg rating 4.53 — 234 ratings — published 2010
What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as metal)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,871 ratings — published 2017
The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984-94 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as metal)
avg rating 4.31 — 303 ratings — published 2015
Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as metal)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,366 ratings — published 2010
Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Music / Culture)
by (shelved 6 times as metal)
avg rating 3.87 — 246 ratings — published 1993
Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as metal)
avg rating 3.61 — 648 ratings — published 2002
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as metal)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,017,729 ratings — published 2006
Non Serviam: The Official Story of Rotting Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as metal)
avg rating 4.46 — 153 ratings — published 2018
Corpsepaint (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as metal)
avg rating 3.88 — 311 ratings — published 2018
Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as metal)
avg rating 3.80 — 153 ratings — published 2012
The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as metal)
avg rating 4.12 — 338 ratings — published 2003
Are You Morbid? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as metal)
avg rating 3.79 — 118 ratings — published 2000
Gone to the Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,317 ratings — published 2023
Rainbow in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,262 ratings — published 2021
My Life with Deth: Discovering Meaning in a Life of Rock Roll (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 3.61 — 588 ratings — published 2013
Doomed to Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 3.62 — 198 ratings — published 2020
Belzebubs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,112 ratings — published 2018
Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,033 ratings — published
The Kill Riff (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 3.56 — 312 ratings — published 1988
For The Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 4.02 — 431 ratings — published
Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 4.21 — 154 ratings — published 2015
My Bloody Roots (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 3.91 — 460 ratings — published 2013
Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as metal)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,128 ratings — published 2011
“The glare filled the cockpit like a passenger, until every piece of metal, every crag and cog, was illuminated, until the very metal itself glared back, and might've blinded the eyes of the sun.”
― Hopebreaker
― Hopebreaker
“That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.”
― Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
― Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal













