Metallica's Metallica

I expected a lot more insight, especially considering that the author had access to and interviewed the four guys who made METALLICA. There's really nothing new here that the band has to offer. Another problem is that the book reads like a hagiography. There's a way for a writer to show enthusiasm fo......more

During my early teenage years in Canada, there was one guy in my class who announced that Metallica's Black Album was the best thing he's ever heard and when our classmates (of both sexes, metal isn't an exclusively male thing y'know) asked him to copy it he would do so and they would agree tat it w......more

Well I really enjoyed this book, not sure on the story flow or the way it's written but liked the song snippets, insights and stories of how the black album came to be. My new boyfriend asked me to get black album for him, on the day it came out. I marched past the queue in hmv to ask for it, not rea......more

The musical comparisons with Camus weren't great. Found a lot of it to be repetitive which shouldn't be a concern in such a short work. Most of the insight came from the band themselves rather than the author. Masciotra is another apologist for the "black album" and everything that came after. Masci......more

A decent breakdown of the The Black Album wrapped in some of the most irritating prose you'll ever read.......more