Merciless Book of Metal Lists

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• Publisher: Abrams Image
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781419707384
• eBook ISBN: 9781613125014
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

The Merciless Book of Metal Lists is an irreverent and illustrated compendium of the most random, funny, and challenging information about Heavy Metal from the last 40 years. You want to know which Metal albums jumped the shark? Curious to know what non-Metal bands Metalheads love, which album covers feature goats, embarrassing Metal fashion faux pas, and the unfortunate original names Metal bands started with? This is the book. In addition to some highly opinionated lists, this energetically designed volume features quotes, short essays, iconic four-color photography, and contributions from notable metal personalities, including Eddie Trunk, Gary Holt (Exodus), and Scott Ian (Anthrax, S.O.D.), among others. Praise for The Merciless Book of Metal Lists: Authors Howie Abrams and Sacha Jenkins have a fun time in this most opinionated compendium ever written concerning heavy metal. The writers are die-hard fans and knowledgeable beyond reproachthe trivia and factoids here will help you hold your own at the next Dokken after-party. Newsday.com

THE BEST METAL ALBUMS EVER!

1.	BLACK SABBATH – S/T (1970)
2.	IRON MAIDEN – The Number of the Beast (1982)
3.	SLAYER – Reign in Blood (1986)
4.	METALLICA – Ride the Lightning (1984)
5.	MOTÖRHEAD – No Sleep ’til Hammersmith (1981)
6.	JUDAS PRIEST – British Steel (1980)
7.	IRON MAIDEN – Killers (1981)
8.	EXODUS – Bonded by Blood (1985)
9.	SEPULTURA – Beneath the Remains (1989)
10.	VENOM – Black Metal (1982)
11.	CELTIC FROST – Morbid Tales (1984)
12.	METALLICA – Master of Puppets (1986)
13.	NUCLEAR ASSAULT – Survive (1988)
14.	FEAR FACTORY – Demanufacture (1995)
15.	MANOWAR – Battle Hymns (1982)
16.	MERCYFUL FATE – Don’t Break the Oath (1984)
17.	ANTHRAX – Spreading the Disease (1985)
18.	VOIVOD – Killing Technology (1987)
19.	MÖTLEY CRÜE – Too Fast for Love (1981)
20.	SLAYER – Hell Awaits (1985)

10 REASONS WHY EVERYONE LOVES SLAYER’S REIGN IN BLOOD

There’s no need for any setup on this one. The list says it all.

1.	Any album played at an average of 210 BPM is awesome.
2.	The album features probably the greatest collection of riffs ever played on one album.
3.	Tom Araya’s voice is the most perfect combination of clarity and anger ever captured in a recording.
4.	The fact that Reign came out on Def Jam is just friggin’ incredible.
5.	“Angel of Death,” while being one of the greatest Metal songs of all time, has an extremely high freak-your-parents-out factor.
6.	Every single note on the album was written by a member of Slayer.
7.	While most Thrash Metal bands at that time were slowing down, in search of “commercial success” on their third albums, Slayer played even faster and got big anyway.
8.	Reign in Blood was the first Slayer album to feature artwork by then political illustrator Larry Carroll, who created imagery as brutal and concise as the album’s music.
9.	When played live, the songs from Reign in Blood have incited countless injuries, as well as minor and major violence.
10.	Is there really any better way to spend twenty-nine minutes???

KILL ’EM ALL VS. RIDE THE LIGHTNING VS. MASTER OF PUPPETS VS…. AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

by Flemming Rasmussen

If you’re one of “us”—who scans album credits as if our lives depended on it—you know that Flemming Rasmussen is responsible for producing three of the most amazing and important Metal albums of all time. For all intents and purposes, he was Metallica band member number 5 during their “glory years,” including the time of their seemingly impossible transition from Cliff Burton to Jason Newsted on bass, and helped shape the sound ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• A MERCILESS FOREWORD BY SLAYER’S KERRY KING (Interview by Howie Abrams)
• INTRODUCTION
• IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE AUTHORS
• IN THE BEGINNING . . .
• ALBUMS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE REALLY UGLY
• AXES BOLD AS FUCK
• SCREAM FOR ME
• POUNDING METAL
• STUPID, STUPID, STUPID
• SONGS: THE GOOD AND THE TERRIFICALLY UGLY
• RANDOM INFORMATION, THOUGHTS, AND SPECULATION
• BANDS, BANDS, AND MORE BANDS
• METALLULOID
• IT’S NOT EASY BEING . . .
• THE BIG 4: METAL RECORD LABEL EDITION
• METAL ON METAL
• AND YOUR MOTHER DRESSES YOU FUNNY
• THE WHITE MAN CAME ACROSS THE SEA
• NOT SO MUCH
• WTF?!!!
• TOO MUCH INFORMATION
• READING IS FUN-DA-METAL
• HEAVY METAL FUN TIME
• THE MERCILESS AFTERWORD BY PHILIP H. ANSELMO
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS