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Tuesday, October 14th 2008
THE ULTIMATE GUITAR BOOK ON ITS WAY
Rock author Joel McIver’s twelfth book, The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists, will be
published globally in January 2009 by Jawbone Press, the world’s leading publisher
of guitar titles. Featuring a foreword by Glen Benton of Deicide, the book takes the
reader in reverse order from No. 100 to No. 1, the greatest metal guitarist of all
time. McIver – a regular contributor to Total Guitar magazine, the biggest guitar
mag in Europe – based his selection on the technical ability and historical
significance of each player and adds that all generations of metal are covered in
the book, with the oldest guitarist aged 61 and the youngest a mere 26.
McIver says, “The idea for this book came to me a couple of years ago after I read a
list of the supposed 100 best metal guitarists of all time in a popular guitar
magazine that should really know better. The list contained all these non-metal
guitarists like Neil Young and Kurt Cobain, so I thought, ‘Screw this!’ and wrote my
own list, which became an 80,000-word book. The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists
features musicians from heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power
metal, doom metal and grindcore bands and that’s it!”