|
Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:56 |
|
 Rock author Joel McIver's twelfth book,
The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists, will be published globally in
January 2009 by Jawbone Press, the world's leading publisher of guitar
titles.
Featuring a foreword by Glen Benton of
Deicide, the book takes the reader in reverse order from No. 100 to No.
1, the greatest metal guitarist of all time. McIver — a regular
contributor to Total Guitar magazine, the biggest guitar mag in Europe
— based his selection on the technical ability and historical
significance of each player and adds that all generations of metal are
covered in the book, with the oldest guitarist aged 61 and the youngest
a mere 26.
McIver says, "The idea for this book came to me a
couple of years ago after I read a list of the supposed 100 best metal
guitarists of all time in a popular guitar magazine that should really
know better. The list contained all these non-metal guitarists like
Neil Young and Kurt Cobain, so I thought, 'Screw this!' and wrote my
own list, which became an 80,000-word book."
"The
100 Greatest Metal Guitarists features musicians from heavy metal,
thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power metal, doom metal and
grindcore bands and that's it!"
Trackback(0)
|
TrackBack URI for this entry
Subscribe to this comment's feed