by Ian Christie

I really wanted to read Lords of Chaos, but the library didn’t have it, but this history of metal was good anyway. I have a hard time figuring out what kind of metal I like. I have figured out I like orchestral arrangement, falsetto, anything with piano-y stuff, some speed, but really no one subgenre. I do love that the metal sign is totally based on Italian-American hand gesturing. I need to go over this book more and look at a few more bands, but basically I have been listening to a lot of Blind Guardian, DragonForce, In Flames, Hammerfall, and Iced Earth. Oddly, even though I have an irrational hatred of dragons, I love bands that sing about them.

This is a pretty good explanation of subgenres. It’s a little academic, but I liked it.