Reddit reviews Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

Here you go https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Beast-Complete-Headbanging-History/dp/0380811278 I own this one.

I have a few recommendations for you:

• Lords of Chaos: Pretty decent (if not slightly sensationalist) story of the Norwegian BM scene. It also covers Dissection, Absurd and a few other notorious groups.
  
• Swedish Death Metal: A fantastic and exhaustive look into the early Swedih death metal. Lots of super influential bands are covered.
  
• Sound of the Beast: I read this about ten years ago, so it's distant for me. I remember enjoying it. It covers a lot of the early scene very well. Lots of coverage on Motorhead and NWOBHM. It also follows Metallica's early career.

this book, period. For some reason my high school library had this, and I happened to find it in like the one time I went in there, and it was amazing. That was a while ago, so by noe it probably is not fully up to date, but it covers from background to beginning to whenever the book was written. It covers major bands and the smaller bands they influenced, how genres developed, etc. You could become a metal expert just by listening to all the albums listed in this book. I've listened to a lot, and it was great to find stuff I would never, ever have found without this book (like the punk band that wrote 7 second songs or something like that, look up the ballad of Jimi Hendrix).

5/5 for any metal fan, can't recommend enough, honestly. Also rip Lemmy since we're talking metal.

Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal https://www.amazon.com/dp/0380811278/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_9STOub1A3KTY4

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore https://www.amazon.com/dp/193259504X/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_pUTOub10T8719

Oh this is a fun one! The five finger death punch online merch store has non-clothing items. I’m kind of a fan of this neon light. Any neon light would be awesome for her bedroom, like this do what you love one. Or these guitars (ok, done with the neon now I promise! I love it though!). Continuing on the decor theme, wall art?

More ideas:

Adorable yet functional ffdp tote

Interesting book about the history of metal

A little pricey, but great for any music fan and budding creative

heavy metal coloring book...I couldn’t resist!

Ear plugs to protect your ears at shows but are still cool...ish

If you decide to dig further than ELI5 after reading the answers here, I highly recommend Sound of the Beast: The History of Heavy Metal

I tend to avoid mindless rock god memoirs. I'd highly recommend these...

• England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyond
  
  
• Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
  
  
• Rip it Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984
  
  
• Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
  
  
• Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
  
  
• The History of Jazz
  
  
• Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation