title: Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict
author:  Seb Hunter 
description: Anyone who's ever perused the headbanger press can attest that, when writing about heavy metal, one should <i>not</i> attempt to emulate the music's crushing, extravagant, vehement brutality. No, the excess of metal is best conveyed in more subdued tones, and it would seem that Seb Hunter concurs. Thanks to the first-time London author's light touch, the part primer, part memoir works well. Chronicling his devotion to the genre from his first encounter with an <a href="/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/51170/${0}">AC/DC</a> record as a 10 year old through stints as a guitarist for a progression of bands with names like Armageddon's Ring, Excalibur, Rag 'n' Bones, the Trash Can Junkies, Cool Hand Luke, Cat Ballou, and Love Knuckle (that last one signaling his split from metal in a post-Nirvana alternative universe), Hunter relies heavily on humor, peppered with pathos and stark realism. Hunter's sad sack telling of his own rags-to-leather story is interrupted periodically for lessons on the fundamentals of metal, like why keyboards suck and how to tell the difference between thrash metal and speed metal. Useful stuff, and, in Hunter's hands, deftly delivered. Metalheads will appreciate Hunter's keen understanding of their beloved music and its attendant folkways, but one needn't know the difference between <a href="/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/45016/${0}">Stryper</a> and <a href="/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/56239/${0}">Slayer</a> to get a rush from <i>Hell Bent for Leather</i>. <i>--Steven Stolder</i>
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  GUARDIANS OF MAYHEM MC BOOK VI
  
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  SHAD OW
  A  week. Not a long time in the grand scheme of things, and even
  less when it’s the ultimatum for death. I slid my black leather gloves
  on nice and tight, flexing my fingers. Decent night for a gun run. I
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