While this book makes no claim to be comprehensive, this is my history of heavy metal.
Every key band could be substituted for another.
So tracing a line through the history is a matter of editing. Metal is a huge subject and whole books could easily be written about each and every band herein. “This account of heavy metal is a deeply personal, opinionated one. O’Neill has been schooling the masses on the correct definition of Heavy Metal in his comedy shows and now he has brought the essence of the shows to the written page. My ReviewĪndrew O’Neill has lived and breathed heavy metal (mainly black/death metal) for as long as he can remember. Now, in his first book, he takes us on his own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music, the subculture, and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music. The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies, Satanists and murderers, born-again Christians and teetotallers, stadium-touring billionaires and toilet-circuit journeymen.Īward-winning comedian and life-long heavy metal obsessive Andrew O’Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences, from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet-reading theatre-goers of the Edinburgh Fringe. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cut-throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. The history of heavy metal brings brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Metallica (SIT DOWN, LARS!), to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. If you have a wider appreciation of Heavy Metal and all of its sub-genres then come and get involved.
I would say to all hardcore Glam metal and Nu-metal fans out there should probably tread carefully 😅. Surprisingly I have to say that AHOHM may not be every metal fans cup of tea.
Heavy Metal, History and Comedy all coming together in one place. This was a unique opportunity to review a book that celebrates all my favourite topics. I am a huge fan of O’Neill’s, his live shows are phenomenal (I have seen him perform 3 times) and he is a true scholar of Heavy Metal. I was ecstatic when I saw this up for review on Bookbridgr. Summed up in a word: Evolution First Impressions Sent to me by Headline in exchange for an honest review.
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