Epic

This story is epic. Nice plot, even if nothing new, and good characters. Most of all, it brought back so many memories starting with the chapter titles recalling specific albums that I used to listen to. Loved the journey and the authenticity of the approach. Mostly for metal heads, I would say.

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Truly wonderful!

I loved “My Best Friend’s Exorcism” and @We Sold Our Souls” hasn’t disappointed! Really fabulous!0

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interesting story

Worth sticking with through a slow start for the plot and it's description of metal like it used to be!

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Metal Never Dies

Starts slow but sucks you in to the point you don't want to stop listening, great story great performance

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Almost Brilliant

🧡 Grady Hendricks has a restrained horror genre all his own. Like how he mixes 90s nostalgia with satanic panic and underpins it with a sinister supernatural plot. It’s foreboding, chilling but somehow light and thoughtful too. It’s also completely addictive and immersive.

💚 Some of my favourite aspects were the main character, Kris, for her bolshiness and strength and humour, and the build up to the climax towards the end using the song lyrics.

💜BUT, it felt like the dots weren’t fully joined up. Things were mentioned then thrown away. While the climax was well-developed, I don’t feel the same can be said for the back story of the band or their songs. It needed more history.

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SOUNDBITE

🎧 There’s a lot to like about this audiobook. Carol Monda delivers a pithy performance full of attitude as Kris, making this a truly effortless listen.

🎧 I do wonder if some of the lore in the songs might have been better suited for the written version, allowing for rereading important bits. Possibly something might have been done to balance that out by making more of the fact that this was an audio production. Not adding music or anything, but signposting in some way using sound effects.

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Very good

excellent writing, excellent performance. Insightful, humorous, triggers some thinking even. Would most definitely recommend.

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A fast ride through rock and roll

It’s the 90’s and  heavy metal band Durt Wurk are on the edge of their breakthrough until lead singer Terry becomes Koffin, a solo artist with no need for his fellow bandmates.

Two decades later, former guitarist Kris is  tired, broke and miserable but a sudden violent event changes everything and she realises Terry may have done more damage than she realised, may have sacrificed them for more than they realised. She sets out to find her old bandmates and face Terry.

This is a journey into paranoia, destruction, death, drugs and rock and roll. Can Kris save all of us from what Terry is bringing into the world, who can she trust, who will die before she can find out what happened that long night 20yrs ago.

This was a  fun rollercoaster of a read, I loved the press notices, snippets of interviews and adverts at the end of each chapter. The chapter headings are song titles, Grady really gives an  immersive experience in his books. The dialogue is sharp and sarcastic, it gives a real feel of what it was to be a rockstar in the 90’s, in all its gruesome detail.

You’ll look at a UPS drivers differently after this and you will definitely double check that contract you’ve been asked to sign. This was a fast ride through madness and obsession.

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decent but not heavy supernatural

Good story interesting takes but honestly a little disappointed with the lack of supernatural influence in the story. I felt it was more a sideline thing than anything else.

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Superb

I'm a big fan of Grady Hendrix's work, and this is hands down his best work to date. Hugely entertaining, brilliantly written and scary in all the right places. a love letter to both metal and horror but also with a lot of heart. Carol Monday does a sterling job of narrating this tale that will stick with you long after you've read it, and will also make you think twice before you sign anything again. 😉

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a lot of heavy metal, little horror

I've always wanted to read books from this author as reviews say how scary some of the stories are but I don't think they are. I love heavy metal and loved all the references but wanted a little more scare. The story was good and different from anything I've read before. For me it just lacked the scare factor but maybe I'm looking at the wrong books for that

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