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When I first started listening to metal circa 98/99, I bought this book because it seemed like it would be an easy way to "get started" in the genre. It's basically 500 pages of album reviews looking at a fairly broad cross-section of metal genres (and even some non-metal stuff). Even then it was pretty dated, but I wouldn't really recognize that until later. Throughout the book, he called anything with Satanic imagery/lyrics "black metal," which I guess was the standard definition of the term in the 1980s, so not knowing any better, I thought Venom, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Mercyful Fate, etc., all fell under that description. I was disabused of that idea pretty quickly when I realized that there were a lot of people on the internet who knew a lot more about metal than I did.
As I recall, he also used "power metal" to mean groove metal.
I used the hell out of The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal in the days before the metal archives site. Some insane reviews, but it was encyclopedic for the time.