METALLICA: This Monster Lives: The Inside Story of Some Kind of Monster
Joe Berlinger, Greg Milner, with Greg Milner. . St. Martin's, $24.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-312-33311-9
In 2001, the hugely successful hard-rock/heavy metal band Metallica got together in a converted army bunker in San Francisco to record its first collection of new songs in years. Raw from the departure of their bass player yet determined to write and record together, the rock stars began group therapy with Phil Towle, a gentle-voiced therapist (or "performance-enhancement coach"). Far from hiding this image-smashing move, however, the band allowed acclaimed documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky to film, well, whatever. Even after Metallica lead singer James Hetfield slammed the therapy and left the recording studio, the creators of the brilliant documentaries
Reviewed on: 11/15/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
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