Paul Brannigan

Metallica es una de las bandas más poderosas, espectaculares y explosivas de todos los tiempos, pero el largo camino desde el anonimato hasta los grandes estadios de todo el mundo ha sido dramático y en ocasiones tremendamente doloroso. Esa es la historia que narra por fin este libro, primer volumen de un relato exhaustivo construido a partir de minuciosas conversaciones con los protagonistas y con todos los individuos que han jugado papeles significativos en torno a ellos. Winwood y Brannigan recorren aquí la primera mitad del trayecto, la época que culmina con la aparición del "Black Album".

As they embark upon the fourth decade of the career, Metallicas legacy is as unique as it is remarkable: having sold over 100 million albums their status as the biggest Metal band of all time is indisputable. Following the acclaimed first volume, which chronicled the bands rise to international stardom, the authors now explore the challenges and tensions that ensued for the band.From the phenomenal, breakthrough, success of 1991s Black album to the bands reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; bassist Jason Newsteds shock exit in 2001 and the groups subsequent meltdown, as laid bare in the unvarnished fly-on-the-wall documentary Some Kind Of Monster, to the divisive St. Anger and Lulu sets (recorded with Rick Rubin and in collaboration with Lou Reed respectively), they brilliantly capture this unique bands epic, louder than life saga.

Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the worlds biggest stadia has been an epic and often traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock n roll sagas.No music writers have been afforded greater access to Metallica over the years than Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, two former editors of Kerrang. Having conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with the band, they have between them gained an unparalleled knowledge of the groups history and an insiders view of how their story has developed: they have ridden in the bands limos, flown on their private jet, joined them in the studio, been invited to the quartets HQ outside San Francisco and shared beers and stories with them in venues across the globe. There are countless memorable stories about the band never before seen in print, tales of bed-hopping and drug-taking and car-crashes and fist-fights and back-stabbing that occur when you mix testosterone and adrenaline, alcohol and egomania, talent and raw ambition.Perceptive, emotionally attached, and intellectually rigorous, Birth, School, Metallica, Death will be the essential and definitive story of this extraordinary band. Volume I takes us from the bands inception through to the recording and eve of release of their seminal, self-titled, 1991 album.

The game changing guitar legend gets the biography he deserves ... Diligently researched, perceptive and well-written.8/10, Classic RockAn affectionate and unflinching portrait of metal guitars Mount Everest.MojoArriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch, saxophone-playing father, the brothers discovered the Beatles, Cream and others.From the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock n roll lifestyle, creating an entirely new style of post-60s hard rock and becoming the quintessential Californian band of the 1980s. But there was also an undercurrent of tragedy to their story, as Eddies struggles played out in public, from his difficult relationship with the bands original singer, Dave Lee Roth, to substance abuse, divorce and his long-running battle with cancer.With unique insights, Paul Brannigans Eruption reaches beyond the headlines to explore the cultural and social contexts that shaped this iconic guitarist, while also turning up the dial on a life lived at volume eleven.

Metallica es una de las bandas más poderosas, espectaculares y explosivas de todos los tiempos, pero el largo camino desde el anonimato hasta los grandes estadios de todo el mundo ha sido dramático y en ocasiones tremendamente doloroso. Esa es la historia que narra por fin este libro, primer volumen de un relato exhaustivo construido a partir de minuciosas conversaciones con los protagonistas y con todos los individuos que han jugado papeles significativos en torno a ellos. Winwood y Brannigan recorren aqui la primera mitad del trayecto, la epoca que culmina con la aparicion del "Black Album".

La mejor y más apasionante biografía de Metallica. Metallica es una de las bandas más poderosas, espectaculares y explosivas de todos los tiempos, pero el largo camino desde el anonimato hasta los grandes estadios de todo el mundo ha sido dramatico y en ocasiones tremendamente doloroso. Esa es la historia que narra por fin este libro, primer volumen de un relato exhaustivo construido a partir de minuciosas conversaciones con los protagonistas y con todos los individuos que han jugado papeles significativos en torno a ellos . Winwood y Brannigan recorren aqui la primera mitad del trayecto, la epoca que culmina con la aparicion del Black Album . "La historia de Metallica se ha contado muchas veces, pero nunca de una forma tan sagaz y tan amena."Metal Hammer"Una obra enormemente ambiciosa. El entusiasmo de los autores se contagia sin remedio al lector."Kirkus Reviews"Es dificil imaginar otro libro que afronte la gigantesca aventura de Metallica con tanta maestria."Mojo"Brannigan y Winwood se adentran como nadie en el universe de la banda."Publishers Weekly