About the Author

Joel is the author of 20 books on music: another 30 exist in translation. His best-known book is 2004’s Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica, which has sold close to 50,000 copies in several languages. He regularly appears on radio and TV and was labelled ‘the top rock scribe writing today’ in a 2009 anthology of music writing. Robb Flynn is the founder, frontman and guitarist of Bay Area-based metal band Machine Head. The winners of many awards for their music, three million records sold, and a 2008 Grammy nomination, Machine Head have toured the world since 1994 and have played alongside the planet’s biggest bands. As a riff writer, Flynn has anchored Machine Head with his incisive, uncompromising approach to his craft.