Legendary heavy metal band Metallica is getting a biography but their history won't be retold with just plain words. The memoir for the group from Los Angeles, California was fashioned into a comic book titled "Orbit: Metallica," which is a masterpiece writer Michael L. Frizell is very proud of.
In a release picked up by Entertainment Weekly, Frizell said he'd "written biographical comics about Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Miley Cyrus and Prince," and also enumerated the audiobooks he made for Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Michael Jackson and Big Time Rush.
But the writer emphasized that he had never writtern about "a group with such a rabid fan base as Metallica." Until now, that is. According to Billboard, the Metallica comic book biography contains 28 pages is already up for grabs from StoreFront Media, who has in its shelves Frizell's works.
The site adds that David Frizell, who was also tapped to create an artwork for another heavy metal knockout, Avenged Sevenfold, illustrated the artwork in "Orbit: Metallica." Interior artist Jayfri Hashim, on the other hand, helped out in making sure the three-and-a-half-decade-long epic is told as it is.
"Metallica's formation marks the beginning of metal, breeding thrash metal which progresses to heavy metal during the glam rock era," Hashim said in the press release, who went on to show off his knowledge and reassure he is the man for the job.
For starters, he said: "Many people get it wrong when they say Metallica is a rock band. They're not." The artist went on to right the wrong notion and make clear that "they are the very definition of a metal band. They were daring, innovative, and the story of their beginning fascinates me."
Fans of the iconic heavy metal pioneers can reminisce that days when the group was only trying to shape up the music world by picking up "Orbit: Metallica" from Comic Flea Market, with a ridiculously low price of only $3.99.
Metal Injection has shared several pages from the comic book. These samples chronicled the band's attempt to defy how music was being defined and vowed to interweave lyrics and chords that only spoke of the reality of life. Some also showed how the members came together to make and define history.
"Orbit: Metallica" should quench the thirst of fans who have been waiting to see the band make more music with a new album that's yet to come out.