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Finally giving fans all access: to themselves, their feelings, and other people like them. This book is partially autobiographical and partially a survey of honest opinions, from heavy metal fans expressing what created their passion for heavy metal music and what makes them keep the faith despite a fast-changing world. Because heavy metal goes far beyond the music itself: it encompasses social aspects of integration and self-realization, religious themes of death and the occult, aesthetic canons of belonging. In 'Why We Choose Heavy Metal' fans will finally see themselves portrayed among the over 30 metal-heads featured in the book, and will therefore understand that there is nothing wrong with being different from the mainstream clones of the modern-day disposable generation. Michelle is a mother, engineer, photographer and heavy-metal journalist that has lived on the concert scene for several years, usually interviewing the bands, but this time asking people on the ground, in the mud and on the grass, to tell her about their life beyond the concert, their values and beliefs, and everything that heavy metal music means to them.

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Michelle 'Metal' Marrone was born in 1980 and fell in love with heavy metal after hearing Metallica's black album in 1993 totally by accident. She is an engineer, mother, wife, amateur photographer, reporter, and heavy metal journalist. Having captured and interviewed dozens of metal bands and artists including Ozzy Osbourne, Testament, Zakk Wylde, Exodus, Nightwish, Rage, Destruction and many more, her passion spans from classic heavy metal to black and symphonic. She maintains her belief that heavy metal and classical music have a lot in common, and that classical music is a magnificent source of some of the darkest pieces ever written. Michelle loves nature, travel, volleyball and of course cannot live without heavy metal.

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