Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

'A flaming juggernaut of heavy-metal biog' GUARDIAN

'This is the definitive account of heavy metal's biggest band of all' CLASSIC ROCK

'Truly enlightening' ROCK SOUND

'ENTER NIGHT, Mick Wall's biography of Metallica confirms this grizzled veteran to be as engaged and waspishly authoritative¹ a chronicler of metal's most hirsute behemoths as Barry Miles has been for the Beats'² INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Mick Wall, fresh from his work on Led Zeppelin, delivers a definitive, weighty tome on Metallica. Alongside contemporaries Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, Metallica rose to prominence in the eighties as one of the 'big four' of thrash metal. Yet, Metallica were to thrash what the Sex Pistols were to punk.

Nearly thirty years on, their story is one marked by alcohol, rule-breaking, and tragically early deaths. However, this is balanced by colossal sales figures – they are the fifth-highest selling recording artists of all time – and band members with backgrounds touching on jazz and classical music. Indeed, Metallica have garnered more critical acclaim than any heavy rock band since Led Zeppelin. Following the critical and commercial success of WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall offers a similarly informed look at the band, a group he has known on and off since their formation in 1981.