New Wave of American Heavy Metal [Paperback]

Garry Sharpe-Young (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2005

600+ New Wave of American Heavy Metal bands are documented with extensive historical biographies, line-ups and full discographies including track lists, labels, catalogue numbers and chart positions.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"... essential addition to any heavy-metal library." 4-Stars. -- REVOLVER Magazine, March 2006

"Making sense of the various modern American metal scenes ... is a wearisome task, but Sharpe-Young has achieved it ...." 4-Stars. -- RECORD COLLECTOR Magazine, March 2006

About the Author

Garry Sharpe–Young is known the world over as a leading expert on international Rock music. Since his early teens he has been embroiled in the world of Heavy Metal in all its aspects, executing over 30 album covers, including for Skyclad, Queensryche and Grim Reaper, making custom belt buckles for Guns n' Roses, designing stage wear for Judas Priest, label manager for Saxon and manufacturing merchandise for Cradle Of Filth, Megadeth, Dimmu Borgir, UFO, Motorhead and Iron Maiden. Throughout the course of all this mayhem Garry amassed a vinyl and CD collection of staggering proportions, toured the world and interviewed just about every major act on the planet. Garry's real passion though remains the discovery of new music and chronicling the phenomenon known as Heavy Metal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Zonda Books Limited; 1 edition (December 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0958268401
• ISBN-13: 978-0958268400
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #473,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview & very, very detailed., November 25, 2005

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Ryanocerous (Jacksonville, FL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Wave of American Heavy Metal (Paperback)

I've got a few of these Rockdetector books and I have always been very impressed. I'm glad they have tackled the new, cutting edge bands this time around. The cover picture, of Dime, OF COURSE, is just perfect.
"New wave of American heavy metal" What does that mean? The scope of bands included here is very wide - you get melodic Death Metal, straight forward Thrash, Emocore, Metalcore, Gothcore, Hardcore, pretty much anything new. As well as the new bands included are the old school Hardcore, such as Agnostic front, Madball, etc, which is valid because these bands are where it all started really. The book mainly concentrayes on bands like Shadows fall, Killswitch, Trivium, Hatebreed, Avenged sevenfold, Mastodon and all that stuff. The book also includes Pantera, Machine Head and Biohazard too. There are more than 600 bands here.
The good thing about Rockdetector books (and the website) is the detail. The band histories are mostly very in depth, much more so than AMG, etc. Every band has a discography of singles and albums, which they have changed the layout of a bit. I think I prefer it now running in date order. Lots of photos too although they should have included a newer Fear Factory one. (Old line up)
Not much opinion - A GOOD THING - just lots of facts. I learned a lot with each page.
A great, high quality book for checking up on albums and band data.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like facts, this is for you, November 28, 2005

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Metallian'66 (Hudson, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Wave of American Heavy Metal (Paperback)

I've got the Rock Detector Thrash metal book, so took a chance on this one. Ok, a lot of these newer bands I'm not into at all but buying it for the more METAL styled bands I have to say Im impressed. The band entries are great. I love reading about all the history, when they formed, their inspiration, who was in, who was out. Revealing is that a lot of these bands you thought were new date back further than you think.
Hard to find fault really. It's a thick book with a ton of bands. Im sure there could be more but what other book out there is there? None. Great job Rock Detector.

The cover is awesome.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rather useless with things like Wikipedia and other online databases, January 23, 2010

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Charles Macri - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Wave of American Heavy Metal (Paperback)

There is little information contained in this book that couldn't be found on any of the individual band's Wikipedia pages, record label websites or MySpace pages. There's is absolutely no narrative nor separation between bands of greater and lesser importance in terms of the amount of content. Picking up the book and casually reading a few of my favorite bands I noticed several typos and misinformation across the board: artist's names, album titles, record labels, etc.

This is a definite pass. I wish there was another book that detailed the story of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal that I could recommend. In the meantime consider buying "Choosing Death" by Albert Mudrian and John Peel or Burning Fight by Brian Peterson.