Livres - Bibliographie

Dans l’univers du Heavy Metal, rares sont les groupes ayant dû faire face à une telle succession d’embûches, d’addictions, de comportements extrêmes et de changements de line-up, tout en parvenant à renaître de leurs cendres à chaque nouvel album et à influencer de façon durable des générations de groupes futurs. Black Sabbath, en ce sens, est absolument légendaire. Issu de la brumeuse Birmingham, le groupe a marqué au fer rouge l’histoire du rock lourd et plombé, en se forgeant une identité propre et inédite. Joel McIver retrace scrupuleusement à la fois la légende et la réalité des faits, s’appuyant sur des dizaines d’entretiens conduits avec les musiciens eux-mêmes, Ozzy, Tony, Geezer et Bill, les différents intervenants étant passés par les rangs de la formation, mais aussi avec des intervenants issus de l’industrie du disque ou des scènes musicales périphériques. Pour, au final, proposer le guide ultime de Black Sabbath.

Sinister Urge is the first in-depth, career-spanning biography of heavy-metal musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie. Born Robert Cummings in 1965, Zombie is now as well known for his movies as he is for his music, which he has released and performed both as a solo artist and as part of his early band White Zombie. In both fields, he imbues his art with the vivid sense of macabre theater that has thrilled his millions of disciples since he and his band first emerged with Soul-Crusher in 1987. Although he has sold millions of albums and generated many more millions of dollars at the box office, Zombie has never taken the easy option or the predictable route. Indeed, while the music industry and many of his peers have fallen to their knees in the last decade or so, Zombie has found a new edge, his work undiluted by success or middle age. Drawing on original research and new interviews with bandmates and associates, Sinister Urge takes a detailed look at Zombie's challenging oeuvre, offering close analysis of his albums and films alongside tales of his life and work on and offstage.

This comprehensive A-Z listing has over 100 rap-rock, rap-metal and funk-metal bands, plus a host of other hard-hitting acts from the hip-hop and hardcore punk branches of metal.