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Book Details Title: Raising Hell: Backstage Tales from the Lives of Metal Legends Author: Jon Wiederhorn Number of pages: Publisher: Diversion Books (January 7, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1635766494 Rating: 3,6     18 reviews

Book Description Review “Throw back the backstage metal curtain and dig into the pit of larger-than-life rock ‘n’ roll escapades! Raising Hell does just that with tales from the chaotic, erotic, psychotic mania . . . revealed here in all its glory!” ―Rob Halford, Judas Priest “So you ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes, what made us who we are, what inspires us? Maybe you want to hear what we don’t tell our significant others, you know, the dark secrets we touring musicians keep from home? John Wiederhorn collected so many great stories from all of your favorite rockers, I know my stories but reading about what everyone else went through is mind-blowing! Enjoy our lives!” ―Billy Graziadei, founding member of Biohazard, Powerflo, and BillyBio “Raising Hell is a Bible of Heavy Metal Debauchery! Not only did it bring back tons of crazy, fun touring memories for me, but it also made me laugh my ass off reading about the antics of my fellow metal heads! For anyone who’s ever defecated where they shouldn’t have, just to make their friends laugh, this book is for you! Hell, this book is for everyone! It rules!” ―Richard Christy, Charred Walls of the Damned, ex-Death, ex-Iced Earth “With Raising Hell, Jon Wiederhorn opens a treasure chest of outrageous, unflinching metal anecdotes that range from hysterical to terrifying to just plain disgusting. Each chapter is a new level of insanity!” ―Scott Ian, Anthrax, S.O.D., The Damned Things “The book takes a broad perspective of bands that are not solely metal but are musically extreme comrades in arms…Its colorful descriptions of mayhem serve as an astute cultural study.” ––Publishers Weekly “While I’ve got a bunch of totally metal tales, I’m just one f*ckin’ dude… In Raising Hell, Jon Wiederhorn captures the energy, excitement, and lunacy of metal culture, not just from thrash musicians, but also from a wide variety of artists in other genres, including classic metal, melodic metal, death metal, and even those crazy church-burning f*cks that play black metal.” ―from the Foreword by Gary Holt, Exodus and Slayer “Raising Hell is, without a doubt, the most in-depth look into the lives of professional metal heads. Unlike a rock biography, this oral history gives you an accurate understanding of what actually happens behind the curtain. No other writer has covered this genre more than Jon, and this book is a gift to all who have devoted their soul to the gods of metal.” ―Ben Weinman, The Dillinger Escape Plan “Raising Hell tells stories of debauchery, wild shenanigans, and mishaps from the musicians themselves, using their own words to describe the unpredictability and chaos that follows rockers on the road.” ―Consequence of Sound “Within its 400-plus pages are outrageous tales of debauchery―beyond chapters dedicated to sex and drugs, dozens of artists confessed wild puke stories, recalled grotesque and painful injuries sustained on tour, [and] admitted to breaking the law.” ―Loudwire “Metal was never really meant to get on with the law. Here, some of our world’s biggest names open up on the times they’ve fallen foul of the police, or just been straight-up naughty…These tales of drunkenness, pissing, mistaken kidnapping and, um, rotten meat prove metallers will always remain true outlaws.” ―Metal Hammer “Delivers the kind of debauchery one would expect from that kind of title…Includes many different facets that encompasses the life of a touring musician, including the hilarious and embarrassing shit many of them experienced on the way up and even during their glory days…[If you] unapologetically love hard rock and heavy metal during its sleaziest era(s), Raising Hell should sit nicely in your book collection alongside Hammer of the Gods and The Dirt.” ―No Echo “Offers the audience a peek into the debaucherous, hair-raising world of some of the most prestigious names in metal. There are a bunch of gnarly anecdotes shared in the book, some of the most gruesome come in the form of musicians describing the most hectic injuries they’ve acquired on stage.” ―Tone Deaf “[Wiederhorn] is bringing to life some of the wildest stories of heavy metal musicians straight from their own mouths.” ―Alternative Press “…[E]asy to dip into at any point….the entries will all entertain….Metal devotees will devour, casual fans will enjoy browsing, but all music lovers will have a blast.” ―Library Journal “One of hard rock’s most prolific journalist opens his notebooks and memory banks for an oral history of stage snafus, transportation travails, drug misadventures and much more. It will rock your world.” ―Oakland Press Praise for the author’s previous book, Louder Than Hell “Whether you’re the sort of man who knows everything from who first threw the Devil Horns to the correct pronunciation of Yngwie Malmsteen, there is something fascinating to learn from Louder Than Hell . . . Shed[s] new light on the making of Satan’s Music.” ―Esquire “Presents the collective memory of heavy metal through the ages and eras in the voices of the men who lived it . . . It’s an aficionado’s delight.” –New York Daily News “Louder than Hell is a love letter to the misunderstood genre of heavy metal music, written by trusted companions who had a front row seat on the devil’s rollercoaster. The definitive chronological testimony by the people who were there, including some who are no longer with us.” ―Mark McGrath, Sugar Ray and co-host Extra “A great read and an instant classic.” ―The Onion’s A.V. Club “This is the best oral history I’ve read since Please Kill Me. Louder than Hell is the first book that really delivers the brutal truth ―Matt Pinfield “Two devil horns up!” ―USA Today “A compelling, first-person account of a seemingly unstoppable force . . .the book reads like an extended, uncensored, shockingly satisfying episode of VH1’s Behind the Music.” ―Washington Post “An amazingly comprehensive book on all eras and genres of hard rock and heavy metal. The stories and attention to detail make it an instant must for anyone who ever was or is a fan.” ―Eddie Trunk, DJ and host of That Metal Show on VH1 Classic “Often hilarious, occasionally, ‘God, I wish I hadn’t read that!’, sometimes profound, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes infuriating . . . no one holds back on any subject. . . you come away from this book with a crystal-clear vision of this world.” ―Huffington Post “The author’s inclusiveness gives this examination a weight that is just as heavy as the music.” ―Publishers Weekly Read more About the Author Jon Wiederhorn is the author of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal (with Katherine Turman) and the co-author of My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory (with Roger Miret), Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen (with Al Jourgensen) and I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax (with Scott Ian). He has written for Rolling Stone, SPIN, MTV, Guitar World, and Revolver, among others. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Read more Customers Review: Love hearing behind the scenes metal band stories. Great read from a ton of bands “The metal genre has always been populated by colorful individuals who have thwarted convention and lived by their own rules. For many, vice has been virtue, and the opportunity to record albums and tour has been an invitation to push boundaries and open a Pandora ’s Box of wild experiences. Even before they joined bands, the urge for metalheads to rebel and a seemingly contradictory need to belong was ingrained in their DNA. Whether they were oddballs who didn’t fit in or angry kids from troubled backgrounds, metal gave them a sense of identity and became more than a form of music.”This book was gifted to my fiance’s best friend who is one of the hardest rockers I have ever met. He was so excited when he saw this book that he stole it and brought it home to read! He said the author’s other book, “Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal,” was such a great read as it gave him an even deeper in-depth look at his favorite artists, and this book was the same way! If you are old enough to remember MTV’s Beavis & B-Head cartoon series, multiply the disgusting factor by 10, & you’ve got this book. While on the one hand I profess to not believing in censorship, I would be very hesitant if I had a teenager to let him read this.I am not a prude; I was a professional hard rock musician for 20 years or so. While we weren’t even close to being angels, on the disgusting scale we were nothing compared to these folks.Basically the author interviews a ton of Thrash Metal, Death Metal, etc bands that no one under 30 has heard of, takes the most disgusting short segments of the interviews & puts them in chapters with themes like Sex, Vomiting, Stealing, Death, Satanism & more.Q: Why did I review this?A: I thought it would at least acknowledge metal bands I like: Sabbath, BOC, Deep Purple, etc & even 80’s bands like Ratt & Poison (none of whom are anywhere near as disgusting as the “musicians” interviewed in this book. I didn’t order it just to rank on it, I was hoping I’d find parts to be entertaining.Again, the title of this review pretty much sums it up: this book is for those with a B&B-head mindset; but do you want your children reading this? Kind of like social media, it “normalizes” extremely deviant behavior. I was living in Southern California when many of the things described in this book by the bands that I would see regularly were going on. Some of it is not at all surprising, because I had heard the rumors around clubs and in groups that hung around the Rainbow, the Roxxy, Madame Wong’s, The Troubador, along the Hollywood Strip. In the era of glamorous guys with big hair, lots of leather, and MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball, nothing is off-limits.You can open this book anywhere and find stories and anechdotes from others who were there, including names you’ll likely recognize and others you never heard of. Some of the stories are not for the squeamish, and others are rather laughable. This book is great for reminiscing or if you are just curious about what makes any of us metalheads tick.I held back one star because I don’t like how the book is currently organized. Admittedly, as a member of Vine, I received a publisher’s advance copy of the book that was missing any sort of index. For fans, such an addition is essential if you’re interested in finding out what your favorite players were up to. Heavy Metal in the loo? This book is made for it. It’s full of short personal stories from major metal bands, big and small. The stories are divided into sections, and it is perfectly fine to open it up at random and read. There’s stories about metal members fighting, raising hell, getting totally loaded, doing criminal things (It seems a lot of them stole microphones in their starting days!), and just talking about metal in general.There are big names here, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Motley Crue, WASP- there’s really too many to name, but if you like metal at all, you are sure to recognize a ton of them.I’ve left it in the bathroom and the family has been enjoying it. It would also be a great waiting room book, but some of the stuff in here is so bad that you might not want to let the doctor see you with it. (Like the starving young band that stole the caterer’s raw shrimp supply and ate it all without cooking it before they became wildly successful!) Do I really want to know this? Wiederhorn pulls back the curtain on the backstage debauchery of a group of metal musicians, who, in their own words, share tales of drunken, hell-bound, drug-addled life for our entertainment. Some of the vignettes are bombastic, some clearly exaggerated and some are just pathetic without the surrounding context. The worst part of reading these tales is that all fit the stereotype of metal musicians, perpetuating the mythology. There are a number of interesting moments in the 400+ pages but you have to wade through tons of repetition as you read account after account of hailing Satan while surrounded by pools of regurgitated cocktails. I started reading this book and so many of the stories are from people I’ve never heard of and after reading their stories never want to. It’s also pretty light on the legends and heavy on the little-knowns.I grew up listening to rock and heavy metal, going to concerts, even met one of the legends but I had to stop reading this book so it wouldn’t pollute all my memories and enjoyment of that. It’s just too many immature, often disgusting stories told by people way too impressed with themselves over them. The Girls Girls Girls chapter is the ultimate showcase of losers. I was hoping for some interesting backstage stories but so many of these were just cringe worthy to read.