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Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums
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Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums Paperback - 2006

by James Sherry; Neil Aldis


From the publisher

Revile it if you will, laugh it offbut heavy metal's influence and audience just keep on growing. And nowhere is its brash outrageousness better expressed than on its album covers. This chunky compendium is a dungeonful of metal overload, complete with leather- and spandex-panted, huge-haired rockers, drooling beasts, and plenty of skulls. Charting a visual course of the genre, Heavy Metal Thunder shows the best album art from its youthful incarnation in the late '70s through the MTV era, when glam and hair metal ruled; to the punk-inflected revolutions of thrash and Nu Metal (with a grunge side trip); to the gory contemporary genres of grindcore, black metal, and doom. Page after page of aggressive and excessive album graphics makes this the perfect gift for both current metalheads and nostalgic (if embarrassed), thirty-and forty-somethings with headbanging memories.

Details

  • Title Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums
  • Author James Sherry; Neil Aldis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 251
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chronicle Books (CA), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780811853538 / 0811853535
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 7 x 7 x 1 in (17.78 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sound recordings - Album covers, Heavy metal (Music) in art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005054828
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.66

About the author

James Sherry and Neil Aldis have both written about rock music for Metal Hammer, Indiecator, and Rock World as well as numerous other magazines. They live in London. James Sherry and Neil Aldis have both written about rock music for Metal Hammer, Indiecator, and Rock World as well as numerous other magazines. They live in London.