Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica

In this "fast-paced" biography, "it's fun to see the band transform . . . from scruffy, Mötorhead-loving teenagers to hard-partying gods of thunder" (Rolling Stone).

Their roots lie in the heavy rock of 70s groups like Deep Purple. The music they played—heavy metal mixed with punk attitude—became its own genre: thrash. As grunge threatened to overtake them, they reinvented themselves. They are Metallica, the most influential heavy metal band of the last thirty years.

As Led Zeppelin was for...