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\uffe5From the author of the celebrated classic Louder Than Hell comes an oral history of the badass Heavy Metal lifestyle\u2014the debauchery, demolition, and headbanging dedication\u2014featuring metalhead musicians from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest to Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot to Disturbed, Megadeth, Throwdown and more.<\/p>\n
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In his song \u201cYou Can\u2019t Kill Rock and Roll\u201d Ozzy Osbourne sings, \u201cRock and roll is my religion and my law.\u201d This is the mantra of the metal legends who populate Raising Hell\u2014artists from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Slipknot, Slayer, and Lamb of God to Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Disturbed, Megadeth, and many more! It\u2019s also the guiding principle for underground voices like Misery Index, Gorgoroth, Municipal Waste, and Throwdown.<\/p>\n
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Through the decades, the metal scene has been populated by colorful individuals who have thwarted convention and lived by their own rules. For many, vice has been virtue, and the opportunity to record albums and tour has been an invitation to push boundaries and blow the lid off a Pandora\u2019s box of riotous experiences: thievery, vandalism, hedonism, the occult, stage mishaps, mosh pit atrocities, and general insanity.<\/p>\n
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To the figures in this book, metal is a means of banding together to stick a big middle finger to a society that had already decided they didn\u2019t belong. Whether they were oddballs who didn\u2019t fit in or angry kids from troubled backgrounds, metal gave them a sense of identity.<\/p>\n
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Drawing from 150-plus first-hand interviews with vocalists, guitarists, bassists, keyboardists, and drummers, music journalist Jon Wiederhorn offers this collection of wild shenanigans from metal\u2019s heaviest and most iconic acts\u2014the parties, the tours, the mosh pits, the rage, the joy, the sex, the drugs . . . the heavy metal life!<\/p>\n
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Horns up!<\/p>\n
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