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\nWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers today announced plans to release on May 10, 2011 the handbook to all things heavy metal:BRINGING METAL TO THE CHILDREN by Zakk Wylde, guitar legend and Black Label Society frontman. Wylde invites all who dare onto the tour bus for tales of glory, debauchery, and general mayhem. The book is co-authored by Eric Hendrikx.
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\nIn BRINGING METAL TO THE CHILDREN, Zakk Wylde, the man who turned heavy metal touring into a journey of fantastical excess, shares what really goes on behind tour bus windows and backstage doors. The twenty-five year music veteran of the Ozzy Osbourne band and Black Label Society details his survival techniques for maintaining a life on the road, managing a band of raging vikings, and somehow making it on stage and blowing the crowd away night after night.
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\nBeginning with Wylde\u2019s \u201ctrue rocker test\u201d (TRT), the reader answers and self-scores ten questions to determine if he is a true rocker and should continue reading, or if he\u2019s just a complete tool who needs to hand the book to someone more metal. Wylde continues the journey with his epic stories about life on the road, using his Black Label Society (BLS) coaching techniques to instruct the reader on proper touring hygiene, pre-concert preparations, and post-show etiquette. The road stories include wild nights with many of heavy metal\u2019s gods including; Rob Zombie, Eddie Van Halen, Dimebag Darrell, Alice In Chain\u2019s Mike Inez, Skid Row\u2019s Snake Sabo, Metallica\u2019s Lars Ulrich, professional wrestlers Chris Jericho, Bubba Dudley and Stone Cold Steve Austin, UFC Former Light Heavyweight Champion Forrest Griffin and of course the Godfather of heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne.
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\nBRINGING METAL TO THE CHILDREN also features Wylde\u2019s roadmap for success in the music business, tour planning and exclusive tips for the aspiring \u201cmetal musician,\u201d as well as the best methods for surviving a mosh pit and plans for how to set up a shooting range on the tour bus.
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\nABOUT THE AUTHORS:
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\nIn the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over. Wylde has won nearly every guitar award imaginable, graced countless magazine covers and is a major influence to a new battalion of rock guitarists. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now iconic Black Label Society in 1998. In the decade plus since, BLS has turned the notion of what a rock band should be upside down by inspiring legions of fans (known as Berserkers) all over the world to follow the mantra: Strength, Determination, Merciless, Forever (SDMF for short). Wylde and his Berserkers have established a heavy metal institution true to the vision of uncompromising, unfiltered and unrestrained rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. To date, Black Label Society has sold more than 3.5 million albums worldwide and continues to be a massive presence on the worldwide touring and merchandising circuits. Black Label Society\u2019s latest album, ORDER OF THE BLACK, was released in August, 2010 and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.
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\nWriter, photographer, and fellow Berserker Eric Hendrikx is a notable contributor to more than a dozen books including Forrest Griffin\u2019s New York Times bestsellers Got Fight? and Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down. A lifelong musician, Hendrikx played guitar in the rock band Snake River Conspiracy and toured with bands including Queensr\u00ffche. He currently lives in Southern California with his son Stone.
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\nABOUT HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS<\/strong>
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\nHarperCollins, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world, is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups around the world including the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children\u2019s Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia\/New Zealand and HarperCollins India. HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children\u2019s books, cookbooks, mystery, romance, and reference, religious and spiritual books. With nearly 200 years of history HarperCollins has published some of the world\u2019s foremost authors and has won numerous awards including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott.
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\nYou can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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