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Summary: Slays the official book!
Review: this has got it all -- the definitive story of the best metal band in the world
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Summary: A Veritable Textbook
Review: This is an exactingly comprehensive look at the musical life of Metallica. It's a not a smooth reading book that you can fly through easily, unless, like me, you "blorp" over dates and extensive listings of concert and recording venues, Instead, it reads as a textbook on a subject rather than a biography, and that is how it's obviously meant to be taken, as a reference book about Metallica, not a reader-friendly biography. It does that job extremely well and with an almost overwhelming precision, and Joel McIver leaves nothing out when it comes to Metallica's music history. I don't believe that a fan interested in the personalities of the band members will find this book as approachable, but there are plenty of other places to garner insights into that sort of thing. This book is for the fan of the music itself, and the story of how it was created, in fine detail. There's an index for easy accessability to the various people, venues, studios, and other errata that suround Metallica's history, which is very welcome, as is this book in whole.
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