Joel McIver

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Joel McIver : biography

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Joel McIver (born 1971) is a British author. The best-known of his 21 books to date is the bestselling Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica, first published in 2004 and appearing in nine languages since then. McIver’s other works include biographies of Black Sabbath, Slayer, Ice Cube and Queens Of The Stone Age. His writing also appears in newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Rolling Stone, and he is a regular guest on music-related BBC and commercial radio.

In the introduction to Neil Daniels’ 2009 book All Pens Blazing, veteran writer Martin Popoff described McIver as "probably the top [rock] scribe in the world".Daniels, Neil; All Pens Blazing, 2009, p6 In a book review in April 2012, Classic Rock magazine labelled McIver "by some distance Britain’s most prolific hard rock/metal author".Classic Rock, April 2012.

As well as writing his own books, McIver also co-writes the memoirs of rock musicians, notably that of sometime Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes, whose autobiography was published in May 2011,; of Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy), whose book will appear in 2013; and of Megadeth bass player David Ellefson, whose memoir will also appear in 2013.

McIver is an alumnus of Backwell SchoolInterview in Venue magazine, 2008. and the University of Edinburgh.