Music Monday’s originated at The Tattooed Book Geek‘s fantastic blog and has shown up here and there since then.
Seems fitting for this week…just makes you want to grab your Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic, a towel, and get off this rock, doesn’t it?
Tag: Metallica
Music Monday’s originated at The Tattooed Book Geek‘s fantastic blog and has shown up here and there since then. I’ve resisted joining in for various and sundry reasons (primarily that I do a lot of these X days of the week memes already—some argue too many), but I couldn’t resist an excuse to use the graphic at the bottom of the post (you can blame my kids for showing me https://www.metallicalogogenerator.com/). So, yeah, I’ll join in on this occasionally.
This week, let’s start off with a song from Metallica’s new album, “Lux Æterna.”*
* If I was going to start with a Metallica track, I probably should’ve gone with “One” for the bookish tie-in, but no one wants to spend that much time on this page.
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The ABCs of Metallicaby Metallica, Howie Abrams, Michael Kaves (Illustrator) Hardcover, 48 pg. Read: November 26, 2019 |
I’m struggling to come up with something to say about this. I want to go on for a few hundred words, but the book is too short for that. And honestly, if the concept doesn’t make you curious enough to check it out, it really doesn’t matter what I say.
But, oh, well—let’s give it a shot.
This is your basic A-B-C’s book, with a short burst of rhyming text starting with consecutive letters, acrostic poem style. The focus of this book is the history, personnel (Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, anyway), and music of Metallica. Just your typical picture book, really. Kid-friendly, but Metallica fans who aren’t afraid to be silly should be able to enjoy it, too.
It’s a little wordy for a picture book, but nothing terrible. I don’t know how much of the text Metallica is really responsible for and how much Abrams should get the credit for (my hunch is more the latter), but that’s not important. There’s some nice info, cute rhymes (sure, some of the rhymes are stretches, but who cares?), and fun ways to come up with something for every letter.
The illustrations are great. Again, kid-friendly but adult-friendly, too. McLeer is a Graffiti and Tattoo artist and it really comes through—I can see my son, a real Metallica fanatic, getting a couple of these tattooed on him, actually.
It’s cute, it’s fun, it’s a great idea—and proceeds are going to charity. Grab a copy, really.
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