Ian Christe

Ian Christe is the author of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal and Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga. He was raised in the heavy metal hotbeds of New York, Germany, Switzerland, New Mexico, and Indiana. He has been heard aloud since 2004 on Sirius XM's weekly heavy metal history show Bloody Roots, and he has appeared in numerous documentaries relating to hard rock and heavy metal. He is also the publisher behind Bazillion Points Books, home to books for voracious readers including Murder in the Front Row, Touch and Go, Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries, Swedish Death Metal, Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie, Once Upon a Nightwish, Hellbent for Cooking, Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC, and other deep music-related books and DVDs. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.