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Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
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3.92 avg rating — 7,712 ratings
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A History of Heavy Metal
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3.90 avg rating — 1,951 ratings
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Metal Cats
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4.08 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
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3.96 avg rating — 2,999 ratings
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I Am Ozzy
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4.16 avg rating — 34,415 ratings
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True Norwegian Black Metal
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4.46 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
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3.82 avg rating — 14,035 ratings
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Slash
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30,511 ratings
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Swedish Death Metal
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4.24 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Rock and Roll Children: An '80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story
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4.20 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath
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4.01 avg rating — 4,069 ratings
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Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
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4.22 avg rating — 1,523 ratings
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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
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3.92 avg rating — 1,463 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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4.14 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
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4.08 avg rating — 3,147 ratings
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I Love Led Zeppelin
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3.88 avg rating — 488 ratings
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The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984–1994
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4.31 avg rating — 304 ratings
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We Sold Our Souls
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3.70 avg rating — 32,574 ratings
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Raising Hell: Backstage Tales from the Lives of Metal Legends
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3.54 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
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4.16 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground
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4.25 avg rating — 104 ratings
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White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography
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3.96 avg rating — 10,204 ratings
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Confess: The Autobiography
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4.40 avg rating — 3,951 ratings
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Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
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4.59 avg rating — 265 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 — 39,183 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 — 231 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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4.14 avg rating — 49,078 ratings
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Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers An Illustrated History
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4.17 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
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4.06 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Iron Maiden - Updated Edition: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Beast
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4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
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3.89 avg rating — 6,666 ratings
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Long Hard Road Out of Hell
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3.81 avg rating — 32,005 ratings
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Hammer of the Gods
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3.86 avg rating — 13,721 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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3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore
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3.96 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums
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4.04 avg rating — 81 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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3.91 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
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3.87 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
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3.76 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult
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4.28 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
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The Scream
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3.86 avg rating — 570 ratings
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The Eric Carr Story
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3.85 avg rating — 74 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 — 8,777 ratings
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To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton
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4.19 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
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4.22 avg rating — 2,392 ratings
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Iron Maiden: Album by Album
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4.09 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Complete History of Black Sabbath
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3.90 avg rating — 114 ratings
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For The Sake of Heaviness
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4.02 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
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4.02 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records
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3.95 avg rating — 63 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 — 819 ratings
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Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs
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4.09 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Ultimate Metallica
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4.41 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Bang Your Head, Feel the Noize: The Quiet Riot Story
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture
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3.28 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
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4.02 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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Led Zeppelin IV
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3.60 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
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4.17 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture
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3.64 avg rating — 193 ratings
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LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour
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3.57 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal
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4.11 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Heavy Tales: The Metal. The Music. The Madness. As lived by Jon Zazula
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3.56 avg rating — 163 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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3.50 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal
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3.61 avg rating — 643 ratings
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The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC
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3.68 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath
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4.01 avg rating — 4,069 ratings
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The Beast: Singing With Iron Maiden―The Drugs, the Groupies . . . the Whole Story
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2.97 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
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3.70 avg rating — 491 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 — 2,332 ratings
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Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Volume II
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4.07 avg rating — 215 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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3.46 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
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Murder in the Front Row: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter
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4.57 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Bruce Dickinson
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3.61 avg rating — 301 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 — 173 ratings
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The Periodic Table of Heavy Rock
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3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Black Sabbath: Never Say Die! 1979-1997
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4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Band That Time Forgot: The Complete Unauthorised Biography of Guns N' Roses
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3.25 avg rating — 214 ratings
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American Hair Metal
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3.98 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorized Biography
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4.07 avg rating — 886 ratings
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Black Sabbath FAQ: All That's Left to Know on the First Name in Metal
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4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings
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What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
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3.78 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Rockers and Rollers: An Automotive Autobiography
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3.83 avg rating — 489 ratings
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The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time
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4.10 avg rating — 186 ratings
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