Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal

Description

A Journey Through Big Hair And Big Amps - The Overblown Excess Of Heavy Metal; With the success of Motley Crue's The Dirt, with Behind the Music episodes celebrating Poison, Guns n' Roses, and Def Leppard popping up on VH1, and with films such as Rock Star, heavy metal is enjoying a pop culture resurgence. Filled with fresh revelations and in-depth profiles about virtually every band and performer to bear the heavy metal label - from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Motorhead to Twisted Sister, Van Halen, Ratt, Metallica and more - Bang Your Head is a shocking, candid and complete look at the outrageous personalities and epic bad behaviour that has always made metal impossible to ignore. Author David Konow spent three years interviewing the bands, wives, girlfriends, ex-wives, groupies, managers, record company execs, and anyone else who has been a direct part of the metal scene. Nothing is left unsaid in this jaw-dropping, often hilarious and wildly entertaining chronicle of power ballads, outrageous outfits and testosterone-drenched debauchery.

David Konow has written for publications such as Guitar World, Creative Screenwriting and Psychotronic. He lives in Southern California.