UK-Based Author Joel McIver To Issue The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists In Early 2009
October 9, 2008, 15 years ago
UK-based author Joel McIver has issued the following update:
Book 12 is The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists, my first guitar book, out just after Christmas. I'm absolutely delighted with it and am fortunate that it's being published by Jawbone Press, the world leader in guitar titles. Basically it lists from 100 to 1 (that's right) the best guitarists in heavy, thrash, death, doom, black and power metal, with exclusive interviews for most of the entries and a foreword by none other than Glen Benton of DEICIDE.
I wrote this book partly because I'm a guitar geek and write for every issue of Total Guitar, but also in annoyance at the usual 'world's best guitarists' lists which magazines occasionally publish. One mag which should really know better compiled a recent list of supposed metal players and included Neil Young and Pete Townshend! Rather than write a filthy email to the editor, I wrote my own book, based on the slightly intolerant principle of excluding anyone who doesn't play a form of metal. So you won't find Angus Young or Steve Vai in there.
Meanwhile, book 13 is underway and will be out in April; I'll announce it in January. Then 14 and 15 will appear in the summer and winter of 2009. That'll do for now."
