And the idea of a book about heavy metal sounded sketchy, ha ha. It’s hard to remember, but there was no social media, so musicians in 1999 were a little more untouchable. Interviews were much harder to get, as there were no books like this back then, and people were skeptical. Yeah, thanks for taking me back to some hard years! As you can imagine, all of those things added up to make a four-year marathon of writing Sound of the Beast. What part of the process took the most time – doing interviews, actually writing it, thinking about the structure, etc?
I’ve read that it took four years for you to write Sound of the Beast. Ian petitioning the empty sky of NY with some nice books (photo by Jimmy Hubbard) In this interview, Ian talks about his four year journey to write Sound of The Beast, the records that changed his life, the differences between printed and digital books, and how it is to manage the best metal/punk/rock publishing company in the world. The list of releases includes titles such as Murder in the Front Row (Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew), Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79–’83 (Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson), Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989 (Bruce Pavitt), and most recently the essential Heavy Metal Movies (Mike “McBeardo” McPadden). To do that, Ian said that he used all the experience gathered during the making of Sound of the Beast – which was released in several countries around the world, including Brazil.
Since then, the New York based company has already published a great number of titles about all the genres and subgenres of metal, punk, grunge, and rock. Five years after releasing the great book of metal Sound of The Beast (2004), Ian Christe decided that was time to be his own boss and created Bazillion Points, a truly DIY press that was introduced to the world with the masterpiece Swedish Death Metal (Daniel Ekeroth).
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