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Browse summaries of all 20 chapters of SOUND OF THE BEAST, gaze upon photos from the book (plus web exclusives!), and download interview and music clips. Bookmark this page -- new features added every week.   I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX Prologue * Friday, February 13, 1970 The 1970s: Prelude to Heaviness The New Wave of British Heavy Metal 1980: The American Wasteland Awaits Heavy Metal America: Highways & Video Waves Fevered Fans: Metallica & Power Metal Slayer: Kings of Black Metal Devils The PMRC's Antimetal Panic Rattleheads: The Mental Metal Reaction Full Speed Ahead: Thrash Metal Attacks! The Hollywood Glambangers United Forces: Metal & Hardcore Punk And Platinum For "One" . . . Metal Matures Transforming the 1990s: The Black Album & Beyond Death Metal Deliverance World Metal: The Globalization of Heavy The Teen Terrorists of Norwegian Black Metal Satan Goes to Court: The People v. Heavy Metal The Antimetal Era: Haircuts & New Roots Virtual Ozzy and Metal's Digital Rebound Reenthroned Emperors: It's a Headbanging World Epilogue * 2001: Iron Man Lives Again