手に取るとなかなかの重さ、まさにヘヴィなメタルの本です。
本著はRob Halfordの前書きに始まり
およそ500ページにわたり、メタルの歴史や代表的なバンドついて記されています。
もちろん漫然と羅列するのではなく、各サブジャンルや国ごとに分けられ
(German MetalやFinnish Metalに続いてJapanese Metalの章も)
ほとんどメジャーなバンドがチョイスされています。
そんななか、Transmetalとか意外なものもシレッと混入していてほんのりカオス。
加えて著名なメタルアーティストのコメントまで多く収録している充実っぷり。
また、ガチガチのメタルバンドのみならず
BiohazardやStuck Mojoといったバンドまで幅広くカバー。
スラッジやメロパワ系の扱いがあまり大きくなかったり
UKスラッシュの章はあるのにジャーマンスラッシュや
ブラジリアンスラッシュの章が設けられていなかったり
バンドによってはサラッと流されるアルバムとそうでないものの差が大きかったり
(例えばRiotのページは途中まで詳細に語られてるのに
InishmoreとSons of Societyはほぼ名前出ただけという扱い)
と、読む人によっては多少なりとも不満を感じるかもしれません。
あと2007年の本なので、情報的には古くなってきているものもあります。
しかしここまでメタルを体系的にまとめ上げたものはそう無いのでは。
一日では到底読み切れません。
無料のKindleアプリをダウンロードして、スマートフォン、タブレット、またはコンピューターで今すぐKindle本を読むことができます。Kindleデバイスは必要ありません。
ウェブ版Kindleなら、お使いのブラウザですぐにお読みいただけます。
携帯電話のカメラを使用する - 以下のコードをスキャンし、Kindleアプリをダウンロードしてください。
Metal: The Definitive Guide. Heavy. Thrash. Death. Black. Gothic. Doom. Power. Progressive ペーパーバック – 2007/3/13
英語版
Garry Sharpe-Young
(著),
Rob Halford
(はしがき)
(Book). This is a comprehensive, illustrated book about one of the most enduringly popular forms of music. Combining biography, critical analysis, and detailed reference sections, it profiles all the major heavy metal artists as well as a huge selection of other niche acts from around the world. Metal: The Definitive Guide includes new firsthand interviews with many major metal musicians and detailed discographies. The definitive metal encyclopedia, with 300+ illustrations including artist photos and memorabilia such as posters, ticket stubs, and much more.
- 本の長さ495ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Jawbone
- 発売日2007/3/13
- 寸法21.59 x 2.81 x 27.31 cm
- ISBN-101906002010
- ISBN-13978-1906002015
商品の説明
著者について
Garry Sharpe-Young is an internationally recognised expert on rock music. He is the author of more than a dozen books on heavy metal and rock, and since 2001 has managed the constantly expanding website, www.rockdetector.com, the definitive on-line information resource for all loud rock/metal music. He maintains good relationships with all major metal acts, and their record companies and management. Joel McIver is an author, journalist, book and magazine editor and album compiler. He is an authority on rock music, and has written many books, including a best-selling biography of Metallica, Justice For All.
登録情報
- 出版社 : Jawbone (2007/3/13)
- 発売日 : 2007/3/13
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 495ページ
- ISBN-10 : 1906002010
- ISBN-13 : 978-1906002015
- 寸法 : 21.59 x 2.81 x 27.31 cm
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 1,059,413位洋書 (洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る)
- - 421位Heavy Metal Music
- - 1,669位Music Reference
- - 205,296位Education & Reference
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GREGORY A WHITE
5つ星のうち3.0
IF YOU LIKE METAL THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.
2018年11月15日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
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5つ星のうち3.0
mancano aggiornamenti
2017年1月15日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Il libro è arrivato nei termini e in ottimo stato. È un buon compendio della storia del rock ma mi aspettavo che avesse aggiornamenti più recenti.
Andrew
5つ星のうち5.0
Awesome book about metal
2007年11月26日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This book is basically a big thick encyclopedia of different metal bands. The author did a really good job of writing about bands that are purely metal, as opposed to other metal books that just get all ridiculous and have entries on Pearl Jam and Insane Clown Posse, but leave out a lot of important bands. Pretty much every band that should be in here is in here. The only band that I was really surprised was missing was Melvins (it was also kind of surprising that the Japanese band Boris wasn't in here either). Anyway, the focus on metal means that many hard rock bands that are either considered to be metal or proto-metal are not in here. So that means no Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Deep Purple, or AC/DC. There's also no hair metal and no nu-metal.
The book is broken up into sections for different genres/categories of metal. Because there are so many genres of metal and so many different metal bands, this sounds like a bad idea, but the categories are split up pretty well. Every band entry is pretty informative and includes a discography. Most entries for bands span multiple pages. Entries for more popular bands like Black Sabbath, Metallica, and Anthrax span several pages and had all kinds of information I had never read before. So while reading this I've never really gotten the feeling that I'm just reading a bunch of stuff that I've read before, which is a huge plus with this kind of book. Also, the band entries are often accompanied by a band photo, which is nice.
Anyway, I guess I would sum up my thoughts on this book as thus: If there were a college course on heavy metal, this would probably be the textbook you'd have to buy.
The book is broken up into sections for different genres/categories of metal. Because there are so many genres of metal and so many different metal bands, this sounds like a bad idea, but the categories are split up pretty well. Every band entry is pretty informative and includes a discography. Most entries for bands span multiple pages. Entries for more popular bands like Black Sabbath, Metallica, and Anthrax span several pages and had all kinds of information I had never read before. So while reading this I've never really gotten the feeling that I'm just reading a bunch of stuff that I've read before, which is a huge plus with this kind of book. Also, the band entries are often accompanied by a band photo, which is nice.
Anyway, I guess I would sum up my thoughts on this book as thus: If there were a college course on heavy metal, this would probably be the textbook you'd have to buy.
jornfin
5つ星のうち3.0
An Informative Mess
2013年2月5日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
What a mess! That was my first thought after checking out the list of contents, which reads as follows:
- (Highly un-informative) Foreword by Rob Halford
- Heavy Metal
- NWOBHM
- American Thrash Metal
- UK Thrash Metal
- American Death and Grindcore
- Norwegian Black Metal
- Worldwide Black Metal
- Doom Metal
- Power Metal
- Progressive, Gothic and Symphonic Metal
- US Metal
- German Metal
- Swedish Metal
- Finnish Metal
- Japanese Metal
- South and Central American Metal
- European Metal
- Neo Metal
- NWOAHM
- Innovators
Naturally, anyone subdividing metal will be attacked by people who think they know better. But at least you have to stick to ONE principal in your choice: either by genre, or by country. Or at least have each relevant genre for each country.
To give an example: since there is no index, looking for Queensryche, I first looked through the list of bands under Power Metal, then under Progressive, Gothic and Symphonic Metal, then chanced Innovators, before finding them listed under American Metal. Finnish band Nightwish are listed under Progressive, Gothic and Symphonic Metal, but their countrymen Sonata Arctica under Finnish Metal. Melodic Swedish Death Metal is dissolved under the overall category of Swedish Metal, even though it takes little imagination to see it as a genre of its own. Finally, Napalm Death show up under European Metal! Seriously - what is the matter here?!?
Not only are bands hard to find this way, relationships are also obscured. Even before the internet, tape trading connected bands and fans worldwide, and bands influenced each other. How can Napalm Death, the inventors of Grindcore and one of the founding fathers of Extreme Metal be isolated from US Death and Grindcore bands?
On top of that, Sharpe-Young decided to exclude anything that isn't obviously metal in either a Black Sabbath or a Judas Priest tradition. Again: I'll admit that any attempt to draw a line will be criticized by fans of the bands left out. And yet - a book on metal that excludes Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow, AC/DC, Kiss & Van Halen - but includes Faith No More & Kyuss? Each and every guitar player in Metal owes to Eddie van! All of Glam Metal is missing, too. That's basically fine by me, but Motley Crue got thrown out along with Cinderella, and that makes little sense once you see beyond the haircuts. Missing, too, are Korn & Slipknot, and crossover acts like Rammstein. You don't like them? Me neither. But they define metal to millions.
However, there isn't exactly an abundance of books on metal, so I am willing to take a little (even a lot) of bad with the good. And the actual articles on the bands that did get included are actually good. This is a large size book, with ordinary size print, and the amount of information given on band history, discography, members, etc. is large. Also, it is rather well researched, and fluently written, longer articles are interspersed with band members' comments on important albums.
In short: certainly not the DEFINITIVE guide it claims to be. (All in all I like it less that Danny Bukzpan's Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal.) But given its informational content, it is worth adding to your library.
- (Highly un-informative) Foreword by Rob Halford
- Heavy Metal
- NWOBHM
- American Thrash Metal
- UK Thrash Metal
- American Death and Grindcore
- Norwegian Black Metal
- Worldwide Black Metal
- Doom Metal
- Power Metal
- Progressive, Gothic and Symphonic Metal
- US Metal
- German Metal
- Swedish Metal
- Finnish Metal
- Japanese Metal
- South and Central American Metal
- European Metal
- Neo Metal
- NWOAHM
- Innovators
Naturally, anyone subdividing metal will be attacked by people who think they know better. But at least you have to stick to ONE principal in your choice: either by genre, or by country. Or at least have each relevant genre for each country.
To give an example: since there is no index, looking for Queensryche, I first looked through the list of bands under Power Metal, then under Progressive, Gothic and Symphonic Metal, then chanced Innovators, before finding them listed under American Metal. Finnish band Nightwish are listed under Progressive, Gothic and Symphonic Metal, but their countrymen Sonata Arctica under Finnish Metal. Melodic Swedish Death Metal is dissolved under the overall category of Swedish Metal, even though it takes little imagination to see it as a genre of its own. Finally, Napalm Death show up under European Metal! Seriously - what is the matter here?!?
Not only are bands hard to find this way, relationships are also obscured. Even before the internet, tape trading connected bands and fans worldwide, and bands influenced each other. How can Napalm Death, the inventors of Grindcore and one of the founding fathers of Extreme Metal be isolated from US Death and Grindcore bands?
On top of that, Sharpe-Young decided to exclude anything that isn't obviously metal in either a Black Sabbath or a Judas Priest tradition. Again: I'll admit that any attempt to draw a line will be criticized by fans of the bands left out. And yet - a book on metal that excludes Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow, AC/DC, Kiss & Van Halen - but includes Faith No More & Kyuss? Each and every guitar player in Metal owes to Eddie van! All of Glam Metal is missing, too. That's basically fine by me, but Motley Crue got thrown out along with Cinderella, and that makes little sense once you see beyond the haircuts. Missing, too, are Korn & Slipknot, and crossover acts like Rammstein. You don't like them? Me neither. But they define metal to millions.
However, there isn't exactly an abundance of books on metal, so I am willing to take a little (even a lot) of bad with the good. And the actual articles on the bands that did get included are actually good. This is a large size book, with ordinary size print, and the amount of information given on band history, discography, members, etc. is large. Also, it is rather well researched, and fluently written, longer articles are interspersed with band members' comments on important albums.
In short: certainly not the DEFINITIVE guide it claims to be. (All in all I like it less that Danny Bukzpan's Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal.) But given its informational content, it is worth adding to your library.
Golovanov Alexey
5つ星のうち5.0
ultimate guide
2008年7月14日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
The Definitive Guide - I agree absolutely!!! Useful and practical book - over 400 pages and about 300 bands covered. The essential bands are there due to their talent and influence, and not sales. There are definitions and introductions of genres and sub-genres (from HMR and NWOBHM to goth, power, doom etc) discographies, geography - from UK and Finland to Central America. This book is an honest, knowledgeable and decent job of true professional and real connoisseur. Not only I finally found what I've been looking for (and couldn't find in "Great Metal Discography" - avoid it), I used it as a guide to buy many decent albums, and to read "Nuclear Blast". Few suggestions only - to find some place in the next edition for "Grand Funk", "Blue Cheer" and "Iron Butterfly". As for doom - honestly, "Swans" and - especially - "Laibach" should be there. And a real must is "Mezarkabul" ("Pentagram") from Turkey. But just buy this book, it's a give away price.