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Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
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3.92 avg rating — 7,888 ratings
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A History of Heavy Metal
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3.89 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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Metal Cats
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4.08 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
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3.96 avg rating — 3,034 ratings
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I Am Ozzy
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4.17 avg rating — 36,206 ratings
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True Norwegian Black Metal
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4.46 avg rating — 768 ratings
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
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3.82 avg rating — 14,140 ratings
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Slash
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31,103 ratings
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Swedish Death Metal
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4.25 avg rating — 742 ratings
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Rock and Roll Children: An '80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story
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4.19 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath
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4.01 avg rating — 4,221 ratings
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Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
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4.23 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
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3.92 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
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The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade
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4.10 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
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4.07 avg rating — 3,324 ratings
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I Love Led Zeppelin
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3.88 avg rating — 489 ratings
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The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984–1994
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4.31 avg rating — 306 ratings
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We Sold Our Souls
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3.69 avg rating — 34,460 ratings
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The Scream
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3.86 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Raising Hell: Backstage Tales from the Lives of Metal Legends
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3.53 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Rainbow in the Dark
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4.15 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
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Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground
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4.27 avg rating — 107 ratings
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White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography
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3.96 avg rating — 10,420 ratings
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Confess: The Autobiography
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4.40 avg rating — 4,162 ratings
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Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
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4.58 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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4.14 avg rating — 39,885 ratings
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Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, 1981-1985
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4.53 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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4.14 avg rating — 50,163 ratings
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Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers An Illustrated History
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4.19 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
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4.06 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Iron Maiden - Updated Edition: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Beast
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4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
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3.90 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
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Long Hard Road Out of Hell
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3.81 avg rating — 32,400 ratings
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Hammer of the Gods
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3.86 avg rating — 13,956 ratings
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Hooligans
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Death Metal Epic (Book One: The Inverted Katabasis)
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3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore
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3.96 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums
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4.04 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Riff Kills Man! 25 Years of Recorded Hard Rock & Heavy Metal
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge
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3.92 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
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3.88 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
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3.75 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult
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4.28 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
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The Eric Carr Story
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3.84 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Lords of Chaos
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3.67 avg rating — 8,928 ratings
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To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton
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4.20 avg rating — 885 ratings
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Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
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4.22 avg rating — 2,725 ratings
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Iron Maiden: Album by Album
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4.09 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Complete History of Black Sabbath
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3.91 avg rating — 120 ratings
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For The Sake of Heaviness
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4.02 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
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4.02 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records
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3.99 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Led Zeppelin
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Off the Rails: Aboard the Crazy Train in the Blizzard of Ozz
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4.11 avg rating — 841 ratings
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Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs
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4.10 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Ultimate Metallica
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4.44 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Bang Your Head, Feel the Noize: The Quiet Riot Story
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture
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3.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Black Sabbath
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4.02 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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Led Zeppelin IV
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3.59 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
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4.18 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture
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3.63 avg rating — 197 ratings
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LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour
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3.58 avg rating — 488 ratings
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The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal
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4.12 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Heavy Tales: The Metal. The Music. The Madness. As lived by Jon Zazula
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3.55 avg rating — 166 ratings
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What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born
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3.51 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal
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3.61 avg rating — 650 ratings
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The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC
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3.67 avg rating — 485 ratings
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Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath
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4.01 avg rating — 4,221 ratings
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The Beast: Singing With Iron Maiden―The Drugs, the Groupies . . . the Whole Story
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2.94 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
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3.70 avg rating — 516 ratings
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A-Z of Thrash Metal
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3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Metallica: Enter Night
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3.98 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Volume II
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4.06 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
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3.47 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
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Murder in the Front Row: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter
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4.58 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Bruce Dickinson
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3.60 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Thrash Metal
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Appetite for Destruction : Legendary Encounters with Mick Wall
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3.66 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Periodic Table of Heavy Rock
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3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Black Sabbath: Never Say Die! 1979-1997
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4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Band That Time Forgot: The Complete Unauthorised Biography of Guns N' Roses
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3.23 avg rating — 221 ratings
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American Hair Metal
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3.99 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorized Biography
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4.07 avg rating — 916 ratings
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Black Sabbath FAQ: All That's Left to Know on the First Name in Metal
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4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
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3.79 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Rockers and Rollers: An Automotive Autobiography
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3.84 avg rating — 499 ratings
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The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time
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4.09 avg rating — 192 ratings
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