The warts-and-all autobiography of Lemmy Kilmister, the vicar's son who grew up to front Motorhead, arguably the loudest and most outrageous heavy metal band ever. The group remains at the top of their profession with a new album and tour scheduled for the year 2002.

Part rock trivia contest, part encyclopedia of excess, this title features over 150 lists that chronicle rock and roll's enduring genre.

If you've always loved live music, sooner or later you'll want to reminisce about where you've been and what you've seen. This title helps you organise your musical memories, and to create your 'I was there' book.

An Operators Manual.

Authorised by the band, and drawing on interviews with all band members, past and present, including Fish, this is the first book in 15 years on one of the most enduring modern progressive rock bands.

Presents the truth about Metallica's early life on the San Francisco circuit, their heyday as the world's most uncompromising metal band and the notorious controversies which plagued their later years. This title covers Napster, Playboy, Rehab, St Anger and their return to form with Death Magnetic .

From Guns N' Roses to Nirvana, a backstage journey through rock's most debauched decade, told as only someone who was there through it all could tell it.

A Bible of Decadence and Darkness. The definitive guide to the realms of darkness and devilry.

Tells the story of Led Zeppelin (1968-1980) through photographs. This book captures the public and private lives of rock gods Led Zeppelin.

Presents the story of one of the biggest selling heavy metal band - Metallica and the album that helped them become so. This work includes a list of various cover songs that Metallica ever played in the studio or on stage.

Al Atkins is the former lead singer and founder of the multi-million selling British metal band Judas Priest. This book is suitable for those wishing to form a band in the tumultuous world of heavy metal.

Like many other pivotal bands the primary emotion behind the music of Slipknot is anger. The nine man masked outfit from Des Moines, Iowa, have been labelled nu-metal , a term first placed on LA emo-rockers, Korn. The author aims to explain why he considers them nothing less than a phenomenon.

Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage with their music. Incredibly, their apparel of masks and boiler suits, which they refuse to remove, means that their fans still do not know what they look like. This title includes interviews and information on the mysterious nine masked men of the band.

Slayer are much more than one of the biggest metal bands - they are a phenomenon. This work explains how they have extended the boundaries of thrash metal, providing impetus for the extreme metal wave that rose in the wake and won converts at every step; and, how they weathered the storms of controversy over their lyrics and image.

Metallica formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, their original line-up consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, and bassist Ron McGovney. They had sold over 100 million records worldwide by the time their album, Death Magnetic , was released in 2008.

The Complete Biography 1976-2006, is everything it promises to be, telling the band's story starting at their inception all that time ago and bringing it completely up to date, as the band continue to enjoy the massive success they have become accustomed to through four decades.

A collection of stories behind some of the greatest extreme metal albums, based on interviews published in Decibel magazine's 'Hall of Fame.'

An autobiography of Saxon in which he tells his story that starts from his working class childhood as a terribly shy schoolboy in Yorkshire and through the mega-days of the early Eighties to the band's Twenty-First Century rise to fame once more.

Slayer's Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal: a seamless procession of ten blindingly fast songs in just twenty-eight minutes, delivered in furious bursts of instrumental precision, with lyrics so striking that Tori Amos was moved to record a cover. This book explores the creation of this album.

This is the story of one of the biggest selling heavy metal bands of all time, Metallica, and the album that helped them become so - known variously to their fans as Metallica , Untitled , or simply The Black Album .