Excerpts From 'The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists' Book Posted Online
January 7, 2009Two excerpts from Joel McIver's twelfth book, "The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists", have been placed online at the U.K.-based author's web site. Chosen at random from the 100 entries, the excerpts discuss the guitar genius of the late Chuck Schuldiner of DEATH and Kirk Windstein of DOWN.
"The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists" will be published globally next week 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 the U.K.'s Total Guitar magazine, the biggest guitar mag in Europe — based his selection on the technical ability, pioneering ideas and historical significance of each player.
McIver told BLABBERMOUTH.NET, "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, 'Fuck this!' and wrote my own list, which became an 80,000-word book. The 100 guys I've included are pure metal: there's no-one taken from the hard rock world, so as much as I respect Randy Rhoads, Angus Young, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmore and the rest of the rock shredders, they'll have to wait for another 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!"
Joel McIver's recent appearance on "The Classic Metal Show" is available for download as an MP3 audio file at this location.
"The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists" can be ordered via Amazon in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. The cover appears below, as well as a shot of McIver with Kerry King of SLAYER and Mick Thomson of SLIPKNOT, both of whom feature in the book.
Contact Joel McIver via www.joelmciver.co.uk.
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