Unlike a rock biography, this oral history gives you an accurate understanding of what actually happens behind the curtain. 'So you ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes, what made us who we are, what inspires us? Maybe you want to hear what we don't tell our significant others, you know, the dark secrets we touring musicians keep from home? John Wiederhorn collected so many great stories from all of your favorite rockers, I know my stories but reading about what everyone else went through is mind-blowing! Enjoy our lives!' - Billy Graziadei, founding member of Biohazard, Powerflo, and BillyBio 'Raising Hell is a Bible of Heavy Metal Debauchery! Not only did it bring back tons of crazy, fun touring memories for me, but it also made me laugh my ass off reading about the antics of my fellow metal heads! For anyone who's ever defecated where they shouldn't have, just to make their friends laugh, this book is for you! Hell, this book is for everyone! It rules!' - Richard Christy, Charred Walls of the Damned, ex-Death, ex-Iced Earth 'Raising Hell is, without a doubt, the most in-depth look into the lives of professional metal heads.

Whether they were oddballs who didn't fit in or angry kids from troubled backgrounds, metal gave them a sense of identity and became more than a form of music. Even before they joined bands, the urge for metal-heads to rebel and a seemingly contradictory need to belong was ingrained in their DNA. For many, vice has been virtue, and the opportunity to record albums and tour has been an invitation to push boundaries and open a Pandora 's Box of wild experiences. The metal genre has always been populated by colourful individuals who have thwarted convention and lived by their own rules.

The book contains the crazy, funny and sometimes horrifying anecdotes musicians have told about a lifestyle both invigorating and at times self-destructive.

In his song You Can't Stop Rock and Roll Ozzy Osbourne sings, 'Rock and roll is my religion and my law.' And that's why Raising Hell is a must-have for anyone who wants to read about the iconoclastic culture of headbangers and the wild lives they lead.

Raising Hell by Jon Wiederhorn