Enter Night

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 ha