Ian Christe
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Ian Christe (born 1970 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) is an author and disc jockey. He attended The Clarkson School's Bridging Year and Indiana University.
Christe is the author of the heavy metal history book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, published in English in 2003 and translated in eleven languages. A weekly radio show known as Bloody Roots is based on the book appears on the Hard Attack station of Sirius Satellite Radio. Hosted by Christe, the show focuses on specific eras or styles of heavy metal, with Christe discussing them in-depth. He also hosts a brief regular spot on the Sirius Buzzsaw channel. His first published work was in the IAN fanzine, and he started as a radio host at WEOS in Geneva, New York, at age 14.
As a freelance magazine writer, his articles appeared in Popular Mechanics, Spin, AP, Wired, "Revolver", "CMJ", "Warp", "Bananafish", Mother Jones, The Baffler, the Chicago Reader, Warp, Blender, Salon.com, the Utne Reader, I.D., and Guitar World. Christe has also made small television appearances on VH1 Classic, MTV2, VH1, and several metal-related documentaries.
His unusual metal band, Dark Noerd the Beholder, appears on the soundtrack to the cult film Gummo. Christe also recorded with the bluegrass band Grouse Mountain Skyride, the experimental drone metal band Kuboaa, and performed during 2000 and 2001 as singer with the Jacques Dutronc "couvert" band Les Opportunistes, one of the first bands of the early 2000s Brooklyn rock renaissance.
In 2007, Christe launched Bazillion Points Publishing to promote books by deserving like-minded authors.
[edit] Publications
- Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. by Ian Christe. ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4.
- Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga. by Ian Christe. ISBN 978-0-470-03910-6, Wiley & Sons.
- Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs. ISBN 0306814854, Perseus Books.
- The Trouser Press Guide to 90s Rock. Edited by Ira Robbins.
- Voter Participation and the States. by Jamie Cooper and Ian Christe, Center for Policy Alternatives.
