The 2015 Martin Popoff 11-page eBook about the making of Savatage’s 1985 album, Power Of The Night. Florida metal craftsmen Savatage found themselves wielding a major record deal with Atlantic after the effusive praised bestowed upon the band following their...
The 2013 Martin Popoff 16-page ebook about the making of the Foreigner album, Head Games. For all their smash multi-Platinum fame, there really hasn’t been much written about Foreigner, so Popoff is particularly proud of this in-depth analysis of the...
The 2016 Martin Popoff 20-page ebook about the making of the Ratt album, Invasion of Your Privacy. Although the heart tells most students of hair metal that Out of the Cellar is the best Ratt album, the head knows that...
The 2012 Martin Popoff - eBook - The Deep Purple Royal Family: Chain of Events Through '79 The Text 280 stuffed pages offering an exhaustive and detailed timeline of Purple milestones, often to the day, including some similar bands, influences,...
The audiobook version of the 2013 Martin Popoff 10-page ebook about the making about the making of the Trouble album, Trouble. This audiobook is read by Martin Popoff himself!Arguably the greatest doom album of all time, Trouble's self-titled is also the Chicago band's...
The 2021 eBook by Martin Popoff This book on the one-and-gossamer Angel is one of my most ambitious band biogs, weighing in at 326 pages of Heaven-sent progressive metal and later, shockingly, power pop, rendered in my usual format, namely...
The 2016 Martin Popoff short eBook on the making of Cactus' album, One Way... or Another. The detailed story of the album, including track-by-track analysis from the author and extensive commentary from the band themselves, interviewed specifically for this essay....
The 2023 Martin Popoff short eBook about The Top 20 Howling Dan McCafferty Performances.In this ongoing series of documents, Martin Popoff breaks down his favourite songs by the artist, usually doing just that—looking at favourites. But this time there’s a...
The 2013 Martin Popoff 10-page ebook about the making of the Van Halen album, OU812. Look, not my favourite album ever made... OK, maybe it's my third least favourite Van Halen ever. But it's always a blast talking with Sammy...
The 2012 Martin Popoff short eBook about Y&T's album Black Tiger.<br><br> The barely contained explosiveness of the Black Tiger album... this is what inspired the birthing of my series of short, inexpensive, "making of" essays. Long story, but it was...
The 2016 Martin Popoff short eBook on the making of Dust – Hard Attack. The detailed story of the album, including track-by-track analysis from the author and extensive commentary from the band themselves, interviewed specifically for this essay. Note: This...
The 2023 Martin Popoff short eBook about rock ‘n’ roll comeback stories.In this ongoing series of documents, Martin Popoff provides a ranked top 20, this time dealing with happy rock ‘n’ roll career rejuvenations. As Martin’s intro blurb says, “It’s...
The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North. Includes two full-color photo inserts, with unearthed photos of the band. “A must for Rush fans.” — Library Journal on Anthem, book one of the Rush Across the Decades trilogy In this conclusion...
The 2020 eBook by Martin Popoff. This book is 275 pages of paranormal progressive power metal rendered in my usual format, namely every song discussed, one chapter per album, with tipped-in sections of colour photography. You’ve all been very kind...
The 2014 Martin Popoff - eBook – Scorpions: Top Of The BillBlackout At The Zoo!No question that Scorpions, Germany's loudest and proudest rock band ever, have done much for heavy metal over the years, and it's high time a book...
The 2023 Martin Popoff short eBook about BTO.In this departure from his Top 20 songs series, Popoff goes deeper than favourites and looks at favourites, to be sure, mixed in with pure heaviness of riff. Each track gets a substantial...