Ben Apatoff - Metallica The $24.95 Book

Ben Apatoff is a New York writer and educator whose work has appeared in Metal Injection, MetalSucks, and the Morbid Anatomy Museum. He was born the summer Metallica released Kill Em All.

R oaring Hella Mega-Stylin Cheers, Danke, Tak, Merci, Skol, Ta, Right on Bro Dudez, Fucken a rights baby man!!!......... THANX TO: My stone cold crazy friends and family, my hero Katherine Turman for her help and encouragement, Laina for writing a better foreword than I could have imagined, John, Barbara, and Carol at Rowman & Littlefield, Robert and Bernadette at Backbeat Books, Brianna Westervelt and Emily Natsios, Rob and Frank at Metal Injection, Vince and Axl at MetalSucks, Letitia and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, Steve Thrasher, Sarah Anne Wharton, D. X. Ferris, Tim Ford, Lupe Lozano, Andrew Buonfiglio, Richard Contreras, Joe Berlinger, Adam Dubin, Michael Alago, Bryan Steele, Nick Monteleone, Sylvia, Eat, Katie and Detective Nerses, William Lent, John Sherman for his editorial brilliance, Gabrielle Moss and Margaret Eby for their wisdom and writing inspiration, Saint Vitus, Hanks Saloon (RIP), Lucky 13 Saloon, the Brooklyn Public Library, James, Lars, Kirk, Cliff, Jason, Robert, and, of course, Metallica fans all over the world.

This book would not exist without Michelle Campagna, who was wearing my Garage Days Re-Revisited shirt when she said yes.

Some of you recognized this quote from the Master of Puppets liner notes. But did you know its also one of the first documented uses of the adverb hella, sixteen years before it made its way to the Oxford English Dictionary? Metallica, ever the trailblazers.

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VH1 Behind the Music, Metallica. Dir. Michael McNamara. 1998.

Who the Fuck Is That Guy? The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago. Dir. Drew Stone. 2017.

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