{"product_id":"heavy-metal-isbn-9780785836612","title":"Heavy Metal","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeavy Metal: The Story in Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e is a colorful guide to this complex but enormously popular subject, including a look at festivals, fans, and the heavy metal lifestyle. Over 350 photographs feature heavy metal's cutting-edge bands on stage—with some candid behind-the-scenes shots, too. Each chapter starts with a detailed chronological timeline of major events—band formations and fold-ups; seminal album releases; important tours and gigs—followed by a photographic coverage of the decade.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Heavy metal developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues, progressive, and psychedelic rock, heavy metal developed a \u003cb\u003ethick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness\u003c\/b\u003e. It did not take long before the first heavy metal bands—the blues-based\u003cb\u003e Led Zeppelin\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBlack Sabbath\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDeep Purple\u003c\/b\u003e being the leaders—attracted large audiences and significant album sales. Often \u003cb\u003ecritically and publicly reviled\u003c\/b\u003e—something that is true to this day—few of these hard rock pioneers would continue on into the heavy metal genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By the mid-1970s, \u003cb\u003eJudas Priest \u003c\/b\u003ehelped spur the genre’s evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. \u003cb\u003eMotörhead\u003c\/b\u003e introduced a punk-rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands such as \u003cb\u003eIron Maiden\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDef Leppard\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eSaxon \u003c\/b\u003efollowed in a similar vein. Before the end of the 1970s, heavy metal had attracted a huge following of headbanging fans. Behind the music ran a vein of anti-authoritarianism and—more insinuated than real—\u003cb\u003eSatanism \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eblack magic\u003c\/b\u003e that really got the pundits talking, as did the aggression and violence implied by so many band names and song titles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeavy Metal: The Story in Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003elooks carefully at the ancient history\u003c\/b\u003e—the 1960s through  to the start of the 1980s—but the bulk of the book concentrates on the last 30 years that saw the splintering of the genre into a myriad forms: from the great thrash metal bands—\u003cb\u003eExodus\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMetallica\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAnthrax\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMegadeath\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSlayer \u003c\/b\u003eand then \u003cb\u003eKreator\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSodom\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDestruction\u003c\/b\u003e, and Brazil’s \u003cb\u003eSepultura\u003c\/b\u003e—to metalcore, that combines various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk, by way of death metal, black metal, power metal, doom metal, gothic metal, glam metal, alternative metal, nu metal, folk metal, Viking metal, drone metal, sludge metal, extreme metal, and even retro-metal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From Donington to Ozzfest, Hard Rock Hell to Sonisphere, festival-going has become a rite of passage in the metal world. With \u003ci\u003eHeavy Metal: The Story in Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, get an up-close look at \u003cb\u003eHellfest\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFortaRock\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eZwergenaufstand Open Air\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEisenwahn\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eWacken\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eJalometalli \u003c\/b\u003eand take a stunning visual tour through the evolution of heavy metal.","brand":"Chartwell Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44892746711269,"sku":"NP9780785836612","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_d54b5273-ee17-4680-a772-ad5fda1d3104.jpg?v=1773102580","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/heavy-metal-isbn-9780785836612","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}