Paul Brannigan is the author of the top ten Sunday Times bestseller This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl and the co-author (alongside Ian Winwood) of the two-volume Metallica history Birth School Metallica Death and Into the Black. A former editor of Kerrang! - the world's biggest weekly music magazine -Brannigan's writing has also appeared in Mojo, Rolling Stone, Q, Classic Rock, and Metal Hammer magazines. He lives in London.