Justice for All: The Truth About Metallica

Amazing stuff, Joel is the official Metal biographer. Lovely and very detailed book. Even Lars like it!

The book contains a lot of interesting info. I'd recommend it to any Metallica fan. Two things keep me from giving it 5 stars. The author spends a lot of time discussing metal genres. I don't care if something is black, death, thrash... Etc. it's all metal to me. I didn't need 20 pages on that. Secondly.. The author spends a significant portion of the book criticizing every piece of work the band has produced since Justice. While I don't disagree in some respects... I didn't need 40 pages devoted to that. Overall, a good read.

Great book, still reading it but definitely worth it so far!! So many details for the best metal band ever!

I walked away with the distinct impression this book was more about Joel McIver than about Metallica.About 80% of it is his opinions on the bands music and the thrash metal genre overall, with some quotes from people within the genre included, and about 20% hard information on the band, it's members, and it's history.A big question to ask after reading any biography is what did you learn about the topic of the biography that you didn't already know. Unfortunately with this book, the answer is almost nothing.However I now do know what Joel McIver "informed" opinions are of Metallica, their music, the thrash metal genre, other bands in the thrash metal genre, and his opinions of those other bands and their music.While I understand any author will include their own thoughts about a subject in a biography, when they let those take over the majority of the work, they're misrepresenting what the book is really about.

After reading Mick Walls "Enter Night" i must say this was much more enjoyable even if the second half is like other reviewers here mention not as good as the first. However I give McIver credit for not trying to disguise his opinion as fact and that he stills views a future for Metallica. I am a huge fan of Meatallica and until they put out their own biography this is a great read and I learned a lot I did not know about the band. Mick Walls book has more on their time with their first manager Zazula and some interesting facts around the recording of the albums. If you want to know everything about Metallica then both books will give you something if you have to choose one of these two. I would recomend Metallica: Justice for All by McIver as his writing style for me at least felt more personal and was more enjoyable.