About the Author

Garry Sharpe-Young is an internationally recognised expert on rock music. He is the author of more than a dozen books on heavy metal and rock, and since 2001 has managed the constantly expanding website, www.rockdetector.com, the definitive on-line information resource for all loud rock/metal music. He maintains good relationships with all major metal acts, and their record companies and management. Joel McIver is an author, journalist, book and magazine editor and album compiler. He is an authority on rock music, and has written many books, including a best-selling biography of Metallica, Justice For All.