Author: Craig Hayes
-
Full Metal Parenting #3: Image
The birth of this Full Metal Parenting series is all thanks to one offended parent. Let me explain. Last year, as I waited to pick my son up from school one day, a parent told me that my tee shirt, which happened to feature a picture of a church in flames on the front, was…
-
Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground
Extremity Retained: Notes from the Death Metal Underground (Handshake Inc) By Jason Netherton In 2013, Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman released their ambitiously titled tome, Louder than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal. At over 700 pages, Louder than Hell featured a lengthy list of metal luminaries telling their tales but, in the main,…
-
Full Metal Parenting #2: interview with Beth Winegarner
A lot of metal fans will tell you that the genre has taken them on journeys to dark, unexpected, and wholly beautiful places, leading them to question nature, reality, and the meaning of existence. Well, welcome to parenthood! It’s pretty much the same, and often twice as loud. Parenting is livin’ after midnight by default…
-
Recess, Reassessed: Come Out and Play by Twisted Sister
After ceaseless rock ‘n’ roll hurdles overcome, and a legacy of thousands of sweaty shows, Twisted Sister’s third LP, 1984’s Stay Hungry, had brought the rewards the band so clearly sought. Stay Hungry sold over three millions copies in the US, millions more overseas, and all that success was a well-deserved triumph for Twisted Sister,…
-
Full Metal Parenting #1: Birds, bees, and big old riffs
A lot of metal fans will tell you that the genre has taken them on journeys to dark, unexpected, and wholly beautiful places, leading them to question nature, reality, and the meaning of existence. Well, welcome to parenthood! It’s pretty much the same, and often twice as loud. Parenting is livin’ after midnight by default…