Primary Sources

What are primary sources? Primary sources are documents or materials told by first hand accounts. Examples are autobiographies, biographies, diaries, fanzines, journals, photos, and magazines. 

Genres and subgenres are listed in alphabetical order. Each heading is an annotation. Formats included. 

Genres:

Heavy Metal: 

Autobiographies: 

• Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir by Mark Morton (audiobook, e-book, print)
• I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath And Beyond by Geezer Butler (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Iron Man by Tony Iommi (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography by Ronnie James Dio (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne (audiobook, e-book, print)
• White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister (audiobook, e-book, print)

Magazines: 

• Hit Parader (American) 
• Kerrang! (UK) 
• Painkiller (China) 
• Revolver (American) 
• Rock Hard (German) 
• Scream (Norwegian) 

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• Blistering 
• Hard Metal 
• Livewire 
• Metal Edge
• Powerline 

Art/Photography: 

• Heavy Metal: The Story in Pictures by Rico Conning (only in print)
• Hellraisers: A Complete Visual History of Heavy Metal Mayhem (only in print)
• Defenders of the Faith: The Heavy Metal Photography of Peter Beste by Peter Beste (only in print) 
• The Art of Metal: Five Decades of Heavy Metal Album Covers, Posters, T-shirts, and More by Martin Popoff (only in print)
• The Decade that Rocked: The Photography Of Mark "Weissguy" Weiss (only in print)

Rock Music: 

Autobiographies: 

• 18 and Life on Skid Row by Sebastian Bach (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Brothers by Alex Van Halen (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Chronicles Vol.1 by Bob Dylan  (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Crazy from the Heat by David Lee Roth (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Devil on my Shoulder: A Memoir by Alice Cooper (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme by Mary Wilson (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Elvis and Me by Priscilla Prestley (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Ghost Rider: On the Healing Road by Neil Peart (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good by Tina Turner (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason (audiobook, e-book, print)
• It's So Easy: And Other Lies by Duff McKagan (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Kiss Kompendium by Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Life by Keith Richards (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Light My Fire: My Life With the Doors by Ray Manzarek (audiobook, e-book, print)
• My Effin' Life – Geddy Lee (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Shut Up and Give me the Mic by Dee Snider (audiobook, e-book, print) 
• The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles (audiobook, e-book, print)
• The Confession of Rick James by Rick James (audiobook, e-book, print)
• The Dirt by Mötley Crüe (audiobook, e-book, print)
• The Herione Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx (audiobook, e-book, print)
• The Real Frank Zappa by Frank Zappa (audiobook, e-book, print

Magazines: 

• Classic Rock (UK)
• Creem (American) 
• Rolling Stone (American) 

Photography: 

• All Access: The Rock 'N' Roll Photography of Ken Regan text by Jim Jerome (only print)
• Forever Young: The Photography of Chuck Boyd edited by Jeffery Schwartz (only print)
• Gered Mankowitz: 50 Years of Rock and Roll Photography by Gered Mankowitz (only print)
• Rock Gods: Fifty Years of Rock Photography by Robert M Knight (only print)
• Rolling Stone Images of Rock and Roll by Rolling Stone Magazine (only print)
• Shot! by Rock: The Photography of Mick Rock by Mick Rock (only print) 

Punk: 

Autobiographies: 

• Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone (audiobook, e-book, print)
• I Was a Teenage Sex-Pistol by Glen Matlock (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Just Kids by Patti Smith (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Lonely boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones (audiobook, e-book, print)
• The Clash by the Clash (audiobook, e-book, print)
• Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, A Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag (audiobook, e-book, print)

Interviews: 

• Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians who Built Punk Rock edited by David A. Ensminger. (only print) 

Magazines: 

• Absolutely Zippo (American) 

No longer in Print (Use Archives.org) 

• Black Market Magazine
• Capitol Crisis
• Chainsaw
• Cometbus
• Damage
• Flipside
• Forced Exposure
• Gadgie
• HeartattaCk
• Homocore
• J.D.s
• Kill Your Pet Puppy
• Lights Go out 
• Punk Magazine
• Rancid News 

Art/Photography: 

• Art of Punk by Russ Bestley (only print) 
• Black Punk Now by Chris Terry (only print) 
• Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995 by Murray Bowles (only print) 
• Legends of Punk: Photos from the Vault by Rikki Ercoli (only print)
• Outside the Lines: Lost Photographs of Punk and New Wave's Most Iconic Albums by Matteo Torcinovich (only print)
• Punk!: The Culture in Pictures by Ammonite Press (only print) 
• The Secret History of Black Punk by Raegan Buchanan (only print)

Subgenres: 

Autobiographies/"Official" Biography: 

Black Metal:

• Are You Morbid?: Into the Pandemonium of Celtic Frost by Tom.G. Warrior (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Confessions of a Heretic by Adam "Nergal" Darski (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print) 
• Forever Immortal: The Official Biography of Varathon by Stefan Necroabyssious (only print)
• Home of the Waves: Conversations with Moonsorrow by Grilo do Demo (only print)
• Mortiis- Secrets of My Kingdom: Return to Dimensions by Mortiis (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Non Serviam: The Official Story of Rotting Christ by Sakis Tolis (only print)
• The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984-1994 by Jørn "Necrobutcher" Stubberud. (only print)
• Wolves Evolve: The Ulver Story by Ulver (only print) 

Death Metal: 

• Amorphis: The Official Story of Finland's Greatest Metal Band  by Markus Laasko (only print)
• Bible of Butchery: The Official Biography by Joel McIver (only print)
• Born Human: The Life and Music of Death's Chuck Schuldiner by David E. Gehlke (only print) 
• Into Everlasting Fire: The Official History of Immolation by Kevin Stewart-Panko (only print)
• My Bloodly Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond by: Max Cavelera (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• North From Here: The Sentenced Story by Matti Reikki (only print) 
• Turned Inside Out: The Official Story of Obituary by David E. Gehlke (only print)

Doom Metal: 

• Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath And Beyond by Geezer Butler (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print) 
• Iron Man by Tony Iommi (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print) 
• No Celebration: The Official Story of Paradise Lost by David E. Gehlke (only print)
• Novembers Doom: The Wayfaring Chronicles by Paul Kuhr (only print) 

Grindcore: 

• Life?... & Napalm Death by Shane Embury (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)

Hardcore Punk:

• Just Beyond the Lights: Making Peace with the Wars Inside our Heads by Randy Blythe ( Randy is a hardcore punk who fronts a metal band; Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print) 
• Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag by Henry Rollins (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• From Punk to Monk by Ray Cappo (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Hard-Core: Life of My Own by Harley Flanagan (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion by Nancy Barile (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Punk Paradox by Greg Graffin (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Mutations:Twenty Years Embedded in Hardcore Punk by Sam McPheeters (Journal)

 New Wave of British Heavy Metal: 

• Biblical by Rob Halford (A continutation of Confess; Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print) 
• Confess by Rob Halford (Autobiography, audiobook, e-book, print)
• What Does This Button Do? By Bruce Dickinson (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• "Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest" by K.K. Downing (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• "Dawn Of The Metal Gods" by Al Atkins (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)

Post-Punk: 

• Bunnyman by Will Sergeant (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer by Jah Wobble (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir by Lisa Carver (Autobiography/audiobook, print)
• I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Record Play Pause by Stephen Morris (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism by Paul Simpson (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book, print)
• Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Authorized Biography by Patress (only print)

Thrash Metal:

• A Fabulous Disaster: From the Garage to Madison Square Garden the Hard Way by Gary Holt (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book) 
• Dreaming Japanese by Marty Friedman (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book) 
• Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax by Frank Bello (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book) 
• Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy by Chuck Billy (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book) 
• I Am the Man: That Story of That Guy from Anthrax by Scott Ian (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book) 
• Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir by Dave Mustaine (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book) 
• War Report: Four Decades of Sodom by José Luis Cano Barrón (only print)
• Your Heaven, My Hell by Mille Petrozza (Autobiography/audiobook, e-book) 

Interviews: 

• Black Metal Rainbows edited by Daniel Lukes (audiobook, e-book, and print)
• Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground by Jason Netherton (only print)

Fanzines/Magazines/Webzines: 

Extreme Metal/Hardcore/Grindcore:

(Extreme metal, hardcore, and grindcore  is grouped all together.)

• CVLT Nation (American)
• Decibel (American) 
• Metal Hammer (German) 
• Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon Kristiansen 
• No Clean Singing (American) 
• Send Back my Stamps! Metal History Through Fanzines (online archive) 
• Terrorizer (UK) 

No longer in print. Use Archives.org 

• Metal Edge 
• Metal Maniacs 
• Ox 

Post-Punk: 

• Gothic Beauty 

No longer in print. Use Archives.org 

• B-Side 
• Option 
• Propaganda 
• Puncture 
• Slash

Art/Photography: 

Black Metal: 

• Arma Christi: Black Metal Apparel from the 20th Century by Valnoir (only in print)
• Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett (only in print)
• True Norwegian Black Metal: We Turn in the Night Consumed by Fire by Peter Beste (only in print)

Death Metal:

• Death Metal Artwork: Album covers by Sv Bell by Sv Bell. (only in print)
• Logos from Hell by Mark Riddick (only in print)
• Killustrations by Mark Riddick (only in print)
• Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett (only in print)
• Morbid Visions by Mark Riddick (only in print)
• Rotten Renderings by Mark Riddick (only in print)

Doom: 

• Mondo Doom: Ceremonies ov Misfortunes by Alex Milazzo (only in print)

Hardcore: 

• We Got Power! Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California by Jordan Scwartz and David Markey (only in print)

Thrash: 

• Murder in the Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter by Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew (only in print)