Metal Music Blog

Guten Morgen! It is Sunday morning here in Finland and I am reading a book of Metallica, written by Joel McIver. I will write a review of the book on next week, but first I need to finish my reading. I feel lazy today (as always), so I will not write much today. Instead I provide you a video from Metallica’s MySpace site. Yesterday I wrote about Great Metal Music Album Covers and I considered adding Metallica’s Ride The Lightning album cover to my list. I also like the Black album cover because of its simplicity. Well, I did not add them this time, even though they are great albums with great covers.

Metallica is an interesting band, by the way. The book I am reading right now provides much interesting information of Metallica’s early days and career. Metallica was one of the first trash metal bands in Bay Area in United States and they are considered as one the most influential bands in trash metal scene. When I heard Metallica’s Ride The Lightning first time in early 80’s, it was really different from other bands on those days. It was fast, furious, cruel and aggressive. Immediately I got very interested in the band and since those days Metallica has been one of my favorite trash metal bands. I will tell more about the book in my review, so stay tuned. So far I can say the book is pretty good and there are lots of interesting details of the band. I will provide you few great examples in my review. Meanwhile check out the video which is a compilation of all Metallica music videos between 1989-2004.