Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

Author(s): Mick Wall

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Alongside contemporaries Slayer, Megadeath and Anthrax, Metallica came to prominence in the eighties as one of the 'big four' of thrash metal. Metallica were to thrash, though, what the Sex Pistols were to punk. Nearly thirty years on, their tale is one of alcohol, rule breaking and tragically early death. But allied to that are colossal sales figures for their records -- they are the fifth-highest selling recording artists of all time - and members with backgrounds that touch on jazz and classical music. Metallica, in fact, have garnered more critical acclaim than any heavy rock band since Led Zeppelin. Fresh from the critical and commercial success of WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall takes a similar informed look at the band, a group he has known on and off since their formation in 1981.


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Mick Wall moves on from Led Zeppelin to produce a definitive doorstop on Metallica.

Mick Wall was the founding editor of Classic Rock Magazine. He's the author of numerous music titles, including books on Iron Maiden, Don Arden and Black Sabbath. He ghosted XS All Areas: the autobiography of Status Quo, and is a former dj on Capital Radio. In the late eighties he was a regular guest on Andy Kershaw's Radio 1 show -- it was then, one night at the BBC that he first bumped into John Peel. Peel helpfully showed him how to use the coffee machine.

General Fields

  • : 9781409121671
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • : 0.408
  • : June 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2012
  • : books

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  • : Mick Wall
  • : Mick Wall
  • : BGF
  • : BGF
  • : 416
  • : 416
  • : 781.660922
  • : 781.660922
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 812
  • : 812
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback