Enter Night - Metallica: The Biography
| Book | Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Craig Fraser |
| Cover photo | C Flanigan, Evan Agostini |
| Copyright Holder | Mick Wall |
| Publisher | Orion Books |
| Printed by | CPI Mackays |
| About/Subject | Metallica |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | UK |
| Copyright | 2010 |
| First Printing | 2010 |
| This Edition Published | 2010 |
| Pages / Font | 470 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1-4091-1295-2 |
| Barcode | 9 781409 112952 |
| Price | £20.00 In UK only |
| Notes | Jacket images: front © C Flanigan/FilmMagic/Getty Images; back © Evan Agostini / Getty Images Entertainment The music they played - British heavy metal mixed with American punk attitide - became its own genre: thrash. Their bassist died and they became the biggest band in the world. Threatened by grunge, they reinvented themselves. Then their singer went into rehab and they almost fell apart. They are Metallica, the biggest, most influential rock band of the last thirty years. As Led Zeppelin were to heavy rock and the Sex Pistols were to punk, Metallica became the band that defined the look and the sound of 1980's heavy metal. Inventors of thrash metal - Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth followed - it was alvays Metallica who kept pushing to another level; Metallica who would become the last of the great rock monoliths. The fifth-highest selling artists of all time, the 100 miliion records they have sold worldwide have reached out far beyond the worlds of rock and metal, and into the pop mainstream. Until now there hasn't been a critical, authoritative, in-depth biography of the band. Mick Wall tells the story of how a tennis-playing, tape-trading fan named Lars Ulrich made his bedroom dreams a globe-straddling reality, and investigates the circumstances that brought it all about. From the horrific bus crash that killed Velvet Underground and jazz-loving bassist Cliff Burton in 1986 - an event that simultaneously shaped and severely traumatised the band in a way they were unable to fully come to terms with for years - to the award-nominated 2004 movie, Some Kind of Monster, which showed in grisly detail just how far they had travelled, to their current status as leaders of the Big Four - the travelling rock festival that played to a million people in Britain and Europe, and goes to America in 2011. Enter Night unravels the story of the various incarnations of Metallica and probes the personalities and characters of all key members, past and present - not least Ulrich and his co-founder, James Hetfield, whose deeply troubled upbringing has fuelled some of their best-loved work - to produce the definitive word on the biggest metal band on the planet. Mick Wall is one of Britain's best-known music journalists, broadcasters and authors. Formerly editor-in-chief of Classic Rock magazine, his work has also appeared in Mojo, The Times and numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. He has also presented his own programmes for Sky TV, Radio 1 and Capital Radio and is a well-known face from countless BBC TV music documentaries. His thirty.-year career has included stints as a high-profile PR, manager and record-company executive. His recent books have included When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin and Appetite for Destruction, a collection of Wall's journalism. |
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