Metallica: The Frayed Ends of Metal

by Chris Crocker

Book Overview

Metallica, the frayed ends of sanity.Heavy Metal's most influential voice. With their cross-bred cacophony of punk's jagged anger and rock and roll's monolithic muscle, they've blown apart the temple doors of the once-sacred Top Ten. Their hurricane mosaic of guitar riffs and feverish lyrics has left America gasping for more from these titans of thrash. They've done it all on their own terms, crowning themselves true monsters of rock without compromise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312086350
• ISBN13: 9780312086350
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

LEAVE METALLICA ALOoOoONE!

All Metallica does is play their music for you and everybody keeps trying to STEAL it from Napster. How is Larz ever going to afford to buy the Mona Liza and a Platinum Shark Bar if you keep stealing from him! The song "Unforgiven" was written for a reason... Nobody will ever forgive them for selling out. "LEAVE METALLICA ALoOoOoONEE! LEAVE EM' ALONE! Chris Crocker knows what he's talking about when it comes to Metallica and Brittney Spears. LEAVE THEM ALONE!

Great book I couldn't put it down

Listen all you Metallica fans out there you got to get this book. It will tell you everything from when it started in Ron's garage all the way to the infamous self titled "BLACK ALBUM". I will admit some parts are booring but overall this book rocks

A must for any Metallica fanatic!

THE WHOLE UNADULT-RATED STORY BEHIND THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BAND.IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE BIRTHPLACES, DATES, OR EVEN PREVIOUS BANDS, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. IT EXPLAINS IN DETAIL THE OFTEN MISLEADING STORY BEHIND CLIFF BURTON'S DEATH. THIS BOOK COVERS EVERYTHING FROM KILL'EM ALL TO THE BLACK ALBUM AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. IT TAKES ABOUT THREE OR FOUR HOURS TO REALLY FINISH THE BOOK IN-DEPTH. IF YOU HAVE EVER WANTED TO KNOW HOW THE SNAKEPIT WAS CONSTRUCTED, READ THIS BOOK. HAS COOL FOTOS OE EVERYONE...EVENTHE LATE GREAT CLIFF, AND THE ONCE AWESOME DAVE MUSTAINE. THIS BOOK RULZ!

If you love Metallica read this book!

When I was in fifth grade I was first introduced into the world of Metallica by hearing "Enter Sandman" on my friends walkman. I wasn't immeadiatly drawn to it, yet a year or two later after hearing the Master Of Puppets album (which later became my favorite album) I became more and more interested. When Reload came out in 1997 I decided that it was time to begin buying the albums. About a year later I owned all the albums, picture disks, and the 1993 box set. I decided it was then time to learn a little more about the history of Metallica. I got this book and began reading it. Immeadiatly I was drawn in a couldn't stop reading. It gave a beautiful history of rock in general and gave every little detail of Metallica possible from the garage to the snake pit. Whether it be the name "The Frayed Ends" that Metallica used as there alias when playing at clubs, or the attempted music videos that failed. It gives great quotes from the band and some of the most prominant names in rock. I think every Metallica fan has to read this book. If you read one thing this year, make it this book. You wont regret it.

This is the book on the background of Metallica.

I have always been a fan of Metallica, ever since I heard "Nothing Else Matters" when I was 9. I was flipping through the tv, when I stopped at MTV. It was playing on that channel. Now I don't know why I was attracted to this song, this type of music, but I just knew that I liked it. My first Metallica cd was "The Black Album", released in 1991 (aka "Metallica"). Then "Load" followed, and then their best cd, "Reload". Which why now, a heavy Metallica fan, I recently bought this book. I was curious as to how Metallica got started, and why they're so damn good. This book answered all my questions. Its neat how they start out in a garage, now, they are the monsters of heavy metal. Details, this book has loads of details. From how James Hetfield, the lead singer playing rhythm guitar, can't read sheet music (but still rocks), to the band only being alloted five dollars a week from their contracters, this book tells all. As Lars Ulrich (drummer) says, "Metallica is it. When that ceases, thats it.". And he's right.