June 22nd, 2010 / 3:40 pm
Music
Brian Foley
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Metal
(young Matt Pike of Sleep/High on Fire)
What novels actively feature metalheads and/or metal culture in their narratives? Period is the only one that comes to my mind.
Tags: Dennis Cooper, matt pike
none, since the subject is bereft of literary value.
Just like drugs and boredom, right?
Every subject has literary value. Not all writers do.
The Prose Edda.
The Restraint of Beasts, a little
Lorrie, what a boring, close-minded answer.
there is no lorrie listed on fecalface’s staff, i was gon’ ask if you know ryan christian
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Master of Reality by John Darnielle (one of the 33 1/3 books). The diary of a teenage metalhead while spending time in a mental institution and beyond.
I was just kidding around.
It was an intentionally snobby joke which I see has incited judgement on the way I think.
no, i’m just a fan.
if a joke, then i apologize.
accepted
Is Christopher Krovatin’s novel too obvious?
don’t know it.
working on it
Heavy Metal & You: http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/2005/12/heavy_metal_and.html
What about John Darnielle’s Black Sabbath novel(ette) for Continuum?
I also remember an Australian comic about a female Suicidal Tendencies fan that I read back in the early years of the 90s, god only knows what it was called/who it was by.
Cooper’s Try is all Slayer n shit.
none, since the subject is bereft of literary value.
Just like drugs and boredom, right?
Yeah. I already said that. Look above.
Every subject has literary value. Not all writers do.
The Restraint of Beasts, a little
Lorrie, what a boring, close-minded answer.
there is no lorrie listed on fecalface’s staff, i was gon’ ask if you know ryan christian
Master of Reality by John Darnielle (one of the 33 1/3 books). The diary of a teenage metalhead while spending time in a mental institution and beyond.
I was just kidding around.
It was an intentionally snobby joke which I see has incited judgement on the way I think.
no, i’m just a fan.
if a joke, then i apologize.
accepted
Is Christopher Krovatin’s novel too obvious?
does Adam’s Glenn Tipton poem count?
don’t know it.
working on it
Heavy Metal & You: http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/2005/12/heavy_metal_and.html
What about John Darnielle’s Black Sabbath novel(ette) for Continuum?
I also remember an Australian comic about a female Suicidal Tendencies fan that I read back in the early years of the 90s, god only knows what it was called/who it was by.
Cooper’s Try is all Slayer n shit.
Yeah. I already said that. Look above.
does Adam’s Glenn Tipton poem count?
“My Life In Heavy Metal” by Steve Almond. Actually kind of lame. How narrowly is “metal” here defined? Black Metal vs Death Metal vs Dark Metal etc… I had arguments about this with my then-wife’s sister’s boyfriend in France. He complained that French metal gets no respect. He had played in Nothingness, somewhat akin to Godflesh — or Kill the Thrill (who are Swiss). What about “Jerusalem,” the greatest 63 minute song ever recorded (well, possibly, because who knows)?
Is the Velvet Underground “metal”? The Stooges? Joy Division? Nirvana? Sonic Youth?
(The hair-bands of the 80s like Poison and Motley Crue don’t count for me, nor does Kiss. Led Zeppelin of course, Black Sabbath, but then Ozzy was just a joke. Gun N Roses might register, if you put together the right songs.)
When you want to note literature inflected by the aesthetic, you soon move into the realm of drugs. But then, all sorts of music can accompany drug use, or serve as in effect a drug itself. Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and 30s, Bix Beiderbecke, or the slurred wahwah trumpet stylings of Bubber Miley, whom I once dreamed about when I had not yet heard his name.
I’ll have to check out Period.
I’m about to start the 3rd round of edits on a Metal themed novel called 1993.
http://secondarysound.blogspot.com/2010/05/layout-for-1993-new-novel.html
http://secondarysound.blogspot.com/2009/08/megadeth.html
“My Life In Heavy Metal” by Steve Almond. Actually kind of lame. How narrowly is “metal” here defined? Black Metal vs Death Metal vs Dark Metal etc… I had arguments about this with my then-wife’s sister’s boyfriend in France. He complained that French metal gets no respect. He had played in Nothingness, somewhat akin to Godflesh — or Kill the Thrill (who are Swiss). What about “Jerusalem,” the greatest 63 minute song ever recorded (well, possibly, because who knows)?
Is the Velvet Underground “metal”? The Stooges? Joy Division? Nirvana? Sonic Youth?
(The hair-bands of the 80s like Poison and Motley Crue don’t count for me, nor does Kiss. Led Zeppelin of course, Black Sabbath, but then Ozzy was just a joke. Gun N Roses might register, if you put together the right songs.)
When you want to note literature inflected by the aesthetic, you soon move into the realm of drugs. But then, all sorts of music can accompany drug use, or serve as in effect a drug itself. Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and 30s, Bix Beiderbecke, or the slurred wahwah trumpet stylings of Bubber Miley, whom I once dreamed about when I had not yet heard his name.
Looking forward to it Justin. Seems to be an untapped market.
I, Steve Almond’s book is terrible. His metal is glam metal, and the employment of it into his narrative comes off as a misguided affectation.
Other than Deathspell Omega, Gojira, or Blut Aus Nord, French metal really doesn’t get much respect. Or if not respect, then press.
SNORE, lorrie.
I’ll have to check out Period.
I’m about to start the 3rd round of edits on a Metal themed novel called 1993.
http://secondarysound.blogspot.com/2010/05/layout-for-1993-new-novel.html
http://secondarysound.blogspot.com/2009/08/megadeth.html
Am I the only person who thinks there are two or three really good stories in My Life In Heavy Metal?
Not sure if I can think of any metal-themed novels off the top of my head. Maybe something will come to me later. I’m halfway through the first draft of an untitled novel about black metal. Also on the fourth or so draft of a novella called The Roadkill Quarterback of Heavy Metal High.
Looking forward to it Justin. Seems to be an untapped market.
I, Steve Almond’s book is terrible. His metal is glam metal, and the employment of it into his narrative comes off as a misguided affectation.
Other than Deathspell Omega, Gojira, or Blut Aus Nord, French metal really doesn’t get much respect. Or if not respect, then press.
SNORE, lorrie.
Am I the only person who thinks there are two or three really good stories in My Life In Heavy Metal?
Not sure if I can think of any metal-themed novels off the top of my head. Maybe something will come to me later. I’m halfway through the first draft of an untitled novel about black metal. Also on the fourth or so draft of a novella called The Roadkill Quarterback of Heavy Metal High.
If that.
Treading the water of “novel” and “nonfiction” (to me): “Killing Yourself to Live,” or anything else by Chuck Klosterman.
If that.
Treading the water of “novel” and “nonfiction” (to me): “Killing Yourself to Live,” or anything else by Chuck Klosterman.
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