Martin Popoff is a full-time music journalist and celebrated heavy metal historian. For ECW Press, he has authored The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home & Away, Black Sabbath — Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History, and Judas Priest — Heavy Metal Painkillers: An Illustrated History. He is also the author of Riff Kills Man! 25 Years of Recorded Hard Rock & Heavy Metal, The Collector’s Guide to Heavy Metal, 20th Century Rock and Roll: Heavy Metal, Goldmine Heavy Metal Record Price Guide and Southern Rock Review. He is a regular contributor to CMJ and Guitar World and keeps regular updates at his Web site, Martin Popoff dot com. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.