Sound of the beast the complete headbanging history of heavy metal ; [including new material on metal in the Muslim world] - Christe, Ian (It Books, 2004)
Includes discographies and indexes
A brief headbanging history of time -- Prologue : Friday, February 13, 1970 -- 1970s : Prelude to heaviness -- New wave of British heavy metal -- 1980 : American wasteland awaits -- Heavy metal America : highways & video waves -- Fevered fans : Metallica & power metal -- Slayer : kings of black metal devils -- PMRC's anitmetal panic -- Rattleheads : mental metal reaction -- Full speed ahead : thrash metal attacks! -- The Hollywood glambangers -- United forces : metal and harcore punk -- And platinum for "one," metal matures -- Transforming the 1990s : Black album & beyond -- Death metal deliverance -- World metal : the globalization of heavy -- Teen terrorists of Norwegian black metal -- Satan goes to court : People v. heavy metal -- Antimetal era : Haircuts & new roots -- Virtual Ozzy & metal's digital rebound -- Reenthroned emperors : It's a headbanging world -- Epilogue : 2001 : iron man lives again -- All hail to thee