METALLICA: 'This Monster Lives' Book Release Date Bumped Up

August 23, 2004

According to Amazon.com, the upcoming book from filmmaker Joe Berlinger, titled "Metallica: This Monster Lives: The Inside Story of Some Kind of Monster" (cover),which tells his account of the making of the METALLICA documentary "Some Kind Of Monster", has been given an earlier release date of November 10 (previously announced as November 22). The book will be available for $24.95 but Amazon are selling it for only $16.97.

"Metallica: This Monster Lives: The Inside Story of Some Kind of Monster" (St. Martin's Press) reveals intimate details of the band’s two-and-a-half year struggle to create their latest album, "St. Anger". Berlinger and partner Bruce Sinofsky were given unprecedented access to the heavy metal icons as they underwent group therapy to help them through their struggles with addiction, fatherhood, backlash from fans, and near-total disintegration. In the book, Berlinger details the filmmakers’ experience in bringing the most tumultuous period in METALLICA's twenty-year history to the screen. While the documentary itself provides an insider's view of METALLICA, the two and a half years of production (and nearly 1600 hours of footage) garnered far more than can be expressed in a two-hour film. The book will also feature over 50 exclusive photos by the film's DP, Bob Richman, with additional photos by Berlinger.

Berlinger's previous award-winning documentaries include "Brother’s Keeper", "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills", and "Revelations: Paradise Lost 2" (all made in collaboration with Sinofsky). St. Martins will also publish Berlinger’s memoirs, "Murder, Music & Mayhem: A Filmmaker’s Mid-Career Report", about the director’s experiences in making and distributing some of the more notable nonfiction films and television programming of the past decade. The book will also reveal the inside story of his misadventures helming the ill-fated "Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows".

(Thanks: The 4 Horsemen)

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