The Merciless Book of Metal Lists ($10) is an illustrated, irreverent compendium of all the most funny, random challenging facts about the last four decades of heavy metal. Everything you could ever want to know is right here, as well as many things you didn’t realise you wanted to know until you read the book. Curios such as which non-metal bands are favored by metalheads and which album cover is full of goats. There are also some cringe worthy metal fashion faux pas, and the truly terrible names some of our favorite metal bands started life as. If you think you know everything about metal this book will prove you wrong.
Smoke: New Firewood Cooking ($) has a Texan chef showing us there is a whole big world of flavor that stretched way beyond the parameters of barbecues. Smoke is the main primer in the most time tested cooking technique of all time, but also one that we have largely lost touch with over time. Tim Byres is […]