Too Fast For Love: Heavy Metal Portraits is photographer David Yellen’s love letter to the chaos, devotion, and denim-and-leather mythology of American heavy metal at the turn of the millennium.
 
Released by PowerHouse in 2004, the book documents Yellen’s time on the road with bands like Kiss, Poison, Iron Maiden, Dokken, Cinderella, Slaughter, and Ted Nugent, not from the front row, but from the parking lots, the backstage hallways, and the long stretches of waiting where fandom turns into identity. These portraits live in the space between spectacle and sincerity, capturing fans and hangers-on just as vividly as the stars they came to worship.
 
In 2000, Yellen drove more than 30,000 miles across the country in his red Nissan 300ZX, chasing the afterglow of the hair-metal era that shaped him. What he found was a moving, often funny archive of excess and devotion, frozen in hairspray and spandex. Big hair, mullets, leopard prints, ripped fishnets, studded belts, platform boots, smeared eyeliner, bare skin, and bravado fill the frame. But beneath the volume and attitude is something gentler: nostalgia for a moment when rebellion felt pure, music felt larger than life, and rock stars stood onstage like modern gods. Too Fast For Love is loud, messy, affectionate, and unapologetic.