Metal Book Klvb

If you listen to metal, chances are that you have at least a passing familiarity with the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Most famously, Metallica has drawn inspiration from his writings more than once: “The Call of Ktulu” specifically name-checks one of [...]

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Crown Publishing Group (340 pgs.) In general, I’m not the world’s fastest reader. If my Goodreads activity is any indication, I usually read about fifty books a year, or a little less than one a week. That seems about right to [...]

Aleister & Adolf by Douglass Rushkoff (story) and Michael Avon Oeming (illustrations) Dark Horse Comics (88 pgs.) Based solely on its premise, this book seemed like a can’t miss: there’s been a pop culture fascination with the alleged link between [...]

Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies, Vol. 1 by Dayal Patterson Decibel Books (237 pgs) Back in 2013, longtime Metal Hammer contributor Dayal Patterson released Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, a massive 600+ page history of black metal that traces the [...]

A Perfect Union of Contrary Things by Sarah Jensen w/Maynard James Keenan Backbeat Books (272 pgs.) Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way up front: for most Tool fans, A Perfect Union of Contrary Things is not the book they want it to be. If you pick [...]

As Indy Metal Shows reaches our one-year anniversary, we’ve decided to start expanding our scope beyond just covering metal music to include other things that might be of interest to metalheads. We started this a couple of months back with the [...]