(Part 3) Best heavy metal music books according to redditors

Probably the best you're going to do, as far as official transcriptions go:


Dream Theater Keyboard Experience Featuring Jordan Rudess Keyboard Transcriptions


Dream Theater: Keyboard Anthology


Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings Keyboard Transcriptions/Vocal


Dream Theater: A Dramatic Turn Of Events


You could also try this:


Dream Theater - Full Score Anthology Guitar Tab Songbook

I'll comment here too and mention a few that I've got that are good. mostly hardcore punk -

misery obscura - the photography of eerie von - must have for any misfits fans. great pictures and anecdotes throughout.

this music leaves stains - great and only top-to-bottom chronicle of the misfits.

get in the van - awesome diary of henry rollins on tour with the mighty black flag.

spray paint the walls - history of black flag.

raymond pettibon - the books (1978 -1985). OOP and very hard to find but a lot of amazing and disturbing art from a fantastic artist from the scene.

fucked up + photocopied - lots of great art from the hardcore scene.

touch and go: the complete hardcore punk zine 79-83 - name says it all.

radio silence: a selected visual history of american hardcore music - tons of great photos of rare stuff from the era.

There is no good documentary on Layne.

The closest thing/most comprehensive source right now is probably David DeSola's book Alice in Chains: The Untold Story.

If you don't mind reading instead of watching, I also put links to some of my favorite longreads on Layne together in a post on this sub a week or so ago. Unfortunately, there is still not a lot of good/credible biographical information on Layne, other than DeSola's book and these articles.

How recent do you want to go? Most books are about the Grunge scene.

Grunge:
http://www.amazon.com/Loser-Seattle-Updated-Second-Edition/dp/1929069243

http://www.amazon.com/Grunge-Is-Dead-History-Seattle/dp/1550228773

Pre-Grunge:
http://www.amazon.com/Before-Seattle-Rocked-City-Music/dp/0295991135

maybe start with this one:
http://www.amazon.com/None-Too-Fragile-Pearl-Vedder/dp/0859652572/ref=pd_cp_14_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0APTDZ8JAAQ1TTBFR3YG

it's 27 cents.

https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-definitive-examination-cult-classic-concept/dp/0982253788

Sounds good!

I looked up linkin parks books and found this. £1,558!

Also watching anime with your GF should be a good time,Cant comment either way because im a single pringle

Oh this is a fun one! The five finger death punch online merch store has non-clothing items. I’m kind of a fan of this neon light. Any neon light would be awesome for her bedroom, like this do what you love one. Or these guitars (ok, done with the neon now I promise! I love it though!). Continuing on the decor theme, wall art?

More ideas:

Adorable yet functional ffdp tote

Interesting book about the history of metal

A little pricey, but great for any music fan and budding creative

heavy metal coloring book...I couldn’t resist!

Ear plugs to protect your ears at shows but are still cool...ish

I just ordered this and its coming Thursday.

http://www.amazon.com/Lemmy-Memories-Rock-Roll-Legend/dp/1530271754/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1457484689&sr=8-4&keywords=lemmy

I'll let you know how it is.

Great album. Just finished Scott Ian's memoir "I'm The Man"--highly recommended.

https://www.amazon.ca/Im-Man-Story-That-Anthrax/dp/0306823349/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1520360269&sr=1-1

I find black metal interesting for a wide variety of reasons. First of all, I am attracted to its sonic aesthetic, like you have been. It's immersive and cathartic, and I think its suited to express a certain set of emotions in a way no other style can. In addition, I think it is a shining example of the post-modern condition. It fits seamlessly into models of modernity from many social theorists. It is the rejection of Lyotard's metanarrative (casting aside "traditional heritage" (music, religion, you name it), expressing distrust for community/national leaders, etc.). It is the result of Durkheim's 'anomie' and an example of Simmel's urban subculture predictions. People all over the world are using this music as a vehicle to express misanthropy, hopelessness, anxiety, hate, and a profound frustration with the modern condition, yet are connecting with one another in carving out this subcultural niche. And it's not all about hate! A lot of black metal is about more than just rejecting or retreating, it's about offering up alternative philosophies/advocating people go decide what matters to them, and stressing personal responsibility.

Beyond that, as with every globalized musical style, space still plays an important role, and it is interesting to note idiosyncrasies. Local/regional folklore plays into black metal a lot, especially with NSBM (not unlike German Volkskunde), and it is interesting to see this co-opted (***note: I'm not an NSBM fan!)

I also just want to study it because it's an opportunity to connect with people who share something with me, however arbitrary what we share may be.

If you're interested, there have been a number of great recent publications on heavy metal. Check out this, this, this, this, this

Edit: grammar

Can’t recommend this book enough

https://www.amazon.com/Birth-School-Metallica-Death-1981-1991/dp/0306823519

Judging from the image, it appears to be from this book, 'The Merciless Book of Metal Lists'. From the little I read of it, it seemed a decent read, aside from the usual heavy metal circlejerkery.

BAM

The way I learned guitar was simple. I though Metallica was pretty cool right about the time I started messing with guitars. So I got a few tab books like so:

http://www.amazon.com/Metallica-Master-Puppets-Guitar-Tablature/dp/089524358X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411403192&sr=8-1&keywords=metallica+tab

... they are extremely easy to read (no real musical training required), but of course not so easy to play. The tab tells you which notes to play, listening carefully to the song tells you when to play them (or reading the timing notation in the book... but that takes some actual training). I loved playing the songs... even badly and slowly enough that I kept doing it. Eventually I got pretty good.

It's this one (amazon link)

Cool... I always like to learn stuff like this. Have you read Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses? It's full of things like this.

Pre-order at:

Amazon.com (Release date October 20th, 2020)

Amazon.co.uk

(Edit: Added US release date)

Might they have been reading this?

Perhaps from this book ? One of the quotes websites links to a search on amazon and this is the first result