Headbanger's Journey is kinda infamous in metal circles. Lots of inaccuracies and whatnotnoiseredux wrote:aaron wrote:...talking about Korn!BoneSnapDeez wrote:noise in the metal thread!
I can appreciate metal. I'm just not a big fan. Actually, I love documentaries on metal for some reason. I've watched Before the Light Takes Us (that's what it's called right?) and that uh, A Headbanger's Journey (I think that's what it's called, haha?) and a few others (titles escape me as well) countless times. I guess I enjoy the history and artistry a lot more than the music.
There's some good books though. Choosing Death is a pretty great book on the history of the early Death Metal and Grindcore scenes, and although it omits some important stuff (for crying out loud, they give one sentence to Suffocation and it's basically just to say that they're extremely influential and important and tons of bands basically copied them. What...) it's still a really enticing read.
There's also Tom G. Warrior's autobiography that I've always wanted to read, but that book is PRICEY.
EDIT: Wait, the Celtic Frost book I was thinking of was actually Only Death Is Real, which is a more recent biography and a hell of a lot cheaper to boot. I should order it...
Oh and if you're just interested in history of individual bands and such, maybe check out some of the episodes of Requiem Metal Podcast. They basically discuss the entire discographies of various bands, or discuss an entire album in depth (and playing relevant songs, naturally). Really cool stuff if you're interested in the history of the music. There's a lot of great episodes, but I'd probably recommend the Death, Slayer, and Judas Priest ones. Bands with larger discographies are usually broken up into various episodes that discuss different periods.
