If you’re like me and curious about the lives and upbringing of famous musicians, Death Punch’d by Jeremy Spencer is currently the #1 best selling book in heavy metal music on Amazon for a reason. In this intense memoir, Jeremy Spencer, the band’s cofounder and drummer, takes us onstage and behind the scenes, on tour and into the studio to tell the band’s story but more so, his own. It’s his life story. It’s not just about the band. It vividly depicts the roller coaster ride of a time Jeremy had growing up and living the rock and roll life.
The book was surely a page-turner, and I read it in a day! Jeremy uses a lot of flashbacks and shifts through time periods to give us a background of what he’ll be discussing. He held nothing back in his depictions and descriptions of his experimental teenage years and pre and post show partying. He talks a lot about his battles with drugs during his adolescence and how it shaped him into the person he is today.
Told in the first person, we get to experience all the feelings he had practically through his entire life, from battling addictions, playing in many failed bands, and risking everything, including taking the big leaps and moving across the country from Indiana, and realizing the rock and roll life isn’t always that glamorous. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from Death Punch’d.
