About this item
Heavy metal and high-thrill cinema have been joined together like mutant twins since before the band Black Sabbath adopted the name of a chilling Italian horror film. The unadulterated journey of Heavy Metal Movies spans concert movies and trippy midnight flicks, inspirational depictions of ancient times and future apocalypses, and raw handheld digital video obsessions. As brash, irreverent, and visceral as both the music and the movies themselves, Heavy Metal Movies is the ultimate guidebook to the complete molten musical cinema experience.Exploding with way over 666 true headbanger classics - raging with disturbing documentaries, bulging barbarians, Satanic shockers, spluttery slashers, post-nuke dystopias, carnivorous chunk-blowers, undead gut-munchers, midnight mind-benders, concert films, killer cameos - plus witches, werewolves, bikers, aliens, lesbian vampires, and vengeful vikings galore.
About the Author
Brooklyn-born Mike "McBeardo" McPadden is the author of Heavy Metal Movies: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, 7 Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear-and-Eye-Ripping Big Scream Films Ever! (Bazillion Points) and If You Like Metallica... (Backbeat Books). Mr. McPadden also edited two volumes of Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia (St. Martin's), pseudonymously authored Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide (SK Press), and contributed chapters to the anthologies Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth (Feral House), The Official Heavy Metal Book of Lists (Backbeat Books), and The Official Sex, Drugs, and Rock-and-Roll Book of Lists (Soft Skull). Since 2003, McPadden has served as the head writer of the online phenomenon Mr. Skin. In addition to years of freelance journalism (Esquire, Black Book, New York Press), and more than a decade as a Hustler editor and correspondent, Mike has done time as a B-movie screenwriter (Animal Instincts III).McBeardo lives in Chicago with his wife Lady McBeardo aka xoJane.com editor Rachel McPadden.
