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Justice for All: The Truth About Metallica (Omnibus Press) |  | Author: Joel McIver
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 54916
Media: Paperback
Edition: Updated
Pages: 410
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 1847727972
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9781847727978
ASIN: 1847727972
Publication Date: September 2009
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Product Description
When the first edition of this book was published in 2004, it caused enormous controversy, with author Joel McIver's account of Metallica's rise and fall exposing the multiple myths that had surrounded the band for years. For the first time, a book dared to tell the unvarnished truth about their early life on the San Francisco circuit, their heyday as the world's most uncompromising metal band and the notorious controversies which plagued their later years. Napster, Playboy, Rehab, St Anger and their recent return to form with "Death Magnetic" are all covered in this updated edition which features brand new interviews on top of the original, still-groundbreaking material. This is the real Metallica story.
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 Hardly does ...Justice January 4, 2006
Sanitarium802 (Long Island, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What i found ironic after reading this book is that the author begins by constantly emphasizing that this book unearths all the truths and misconceptions about Metallica, however loads the pages with opinions.
Yes the biography does contain a great amount of indepth information, however I felt as if most of this ended after the author finished describing Master of Puppets. It seemed as if the author put all his efforts into describing up until rough 1988 and then couldnt wait to conclude his work (with the exception of the napster saga which did seem very well researched). The Kill 'Em All- Master of Puppets time frame seems so indepth, while 1993 (end of touring for the black album) onward seems like it was summed up in about 10 pages (again with the exception of the napster case).
While I found the facts to be interesting and noteworthy, I found the author's opinions to be hypocritical, contradictory and even far fetched. He himself seems to have jumped on the anit-Metallica banwagon.
I would recommend this book only to serious fans of Metallica, who can look past the authors opinions and are interested in picking up tidbits of f.y.i's and such.
 Ok Read, Maybe More If You Are Some Fanatic November 27, 2005
James Shannon Bussey (Mississippi)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is okay. As other readers have said I think the writer spent to much time on disecting every song, and talking about the various types of sub-genres of music. He spent so much time on the superficial things he left out so much about the twenty year career these guys have shared. It is an ok book but not even close to a rock biography such as "Scar Tissue" or "Shakey" the Neil Young Biography.
 An excellent biography September 12, 2005
Hudson Moore
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Justice For All is an extensively researched and well written book. For sources, McIver draws primarily from about 70 self-conducted interviews with musicians, journalists, and music industry insiders, many of whom were directly acquainted with Metallica.
McIver seems to embark on two separate projects with this book. First, he is presenting an historical account of the band intended to tell the Metallica story in vivid detail. This he does quite well, and it is for this reason that I think the book is worth buying. I haven't read any other full biographies of Metallica, but I can't imagine there's a better one out there that is as recent as this one, which was released in 2004 and includes information through the St. Anger/Some Kind of Monster sessions.
Second, McIver is offering a full, song-by-song record review for every Metallica album released (including St. Anger). The author makes no pretenses about being objective--he states at the outset that he will give his opinions. And give his opinions he certainly does. Put simply, McIver believes Master of Puppets was the apogee of Metallica's musical genius--what came before it was an ascent to greatness, while what followed was a series of disillusioning let-downs that left many fans (McIver included) feeling alienated. What I found frustrating about each of his record reviews from ...And Justice For All forward was that McIver incessantly demanded that Metallica give him "Master of Puppets II". He seemed to ignore the fact that most artists don't want to create the same work twice; they want to grow musically and constantly aspire to new sonic possibilities. As a musician and songwriter, I found it somewhat irritating that McIver was so persistent with his insistence for more of the same from Metallica.
What made this even more of an issue for me was that McIver, only three pages into the text, exhorts the reader to "keep an open mind" (xv). I found myself thinking back to this line each time McIver made an assertion like the following (in reference to Load and Reload): "The one overriding fact is that these two albums simply aren't very good" (253). What happened to keeping an open mind?
However, these are just opinions, and I don't think one should base the decision to purchase the book on whether (s)he shares McIver's views or not. While I think the book might have been stronger as a pure biography (i.e., minus the record reviews), the reader can look past McIver's opinions if (s)he desires.
In short, Justice for All is a valuable history/biography regardless of your stance on Metallica's music. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in understanding the band's origins and history or the 1980s metal scene more generally.
Justice For All: The Opinion On Metallica July 28, 2005
Mark Moreno (Houston, Tx.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I actually thought this was a decent book about Metallica. Being a fan since the age of 8, when ...And Justice For All was released, I was looking forward to yet another good book about Metallica. What "truths" I got instead were those the opinions of the author, who believes that any music Metallica has written that doesn't fit under the "thrash" catagory, is crap.
I found a lot of the information in this book to be quite interesting, especially the chapter about Napster. Other than that, the way the author can't seem to let go of the past and the fact that he seems to be locked inside the loop of the 16th beat, is quite annoying.
This book is a good read if you don't take the author's opinions too seriously.
the complete metallica story February 7, 2005
mike g (indianapolis, indiana United States)
this book was written by a real fan of metallica who tells it like it is he thinks most of the new stuff sucks but explains why he thinks they havent sold out they have just grown old and evolved this book has lots of rare pictures of old metallica and is worth buying for the large section on cliff burton with painstaking research on how they started and tons of hilarious storys never told before metallica may be old farts now but they forever changed rock music and no current metal band comes close to the complexity of metallicas old stuff if you want to know the full story and learn more about the amazing cliff burton buy this book it tells u about the entire early thrash metal scene and how metallica rose to the top of it
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