Tag: Full Metal Parenting
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Full Metal Parenting – Iron Man
The column below is a solo feature, that’s only because my writing this time was inspired by a reaction to a specific incident. Matt and I will both be back in the future, with more tales from the metal and parenting trenches. Until then, thanks for your patience. We’ll see you soon. — Craig I’ve got…
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Full Metal Parenting presents: an interview with Bekki O
It’s been some time since we here at FMP have put anything together for you loyal readers. But hey, we’re parents after all. Life takes all kinds of turns. But Craig and I are back in the saddle (at least one stirrup) with an interview with Bekki O., an active metal tweeter from Knoxville and…
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Full Metal Parenting presents: The Jamie Myers interview
Back in September Sabbath Assembly released their latest occult doom/rock album, Sabbath Assembly, to much praise. It was around this time that Craig and I had the opportunity to ask vocalist Jamie Myers some questions about her role as a “heavy metal parent.” She was gracious enough to respond to our queries about balancing her…
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Full Metal Parenting #10: Money
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…
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Full Metal Parenting #8: GODS
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…
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FULL METAL PARENTING #7: DRUGS AND BOOZE
This month’s Full Metal Parenting is all about drugs and alcohol, and I’ll tell you right at the start that the hardest substance I indulge in these days is an extra strong cup of Camellia sinensis. For me, cups of tea are about as debauched as it gets nowadays, and I’m well aware that doesn’t…
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Full Metal Parenting #6: Mike Scheidt Interview
When Craig had the crazy idea that we start a column about heavy metal parenting and that we include interviews with “heavy metal parents,” my first thought was of Mike Scheidt. As the leader of YOB (and member of Lumbar and VHOL) he has been a musical inspiration to myself and many others. I wondered…
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Full Metal Parenting #5: Anger
One of the first things my Full Metal Parenting co-conspirator, Matt, and I ever discussed, was the fact we’d both spent time in anger management classes. I can’t remember who brought the subject up first, but we shared a similar realisation that darkness was clouding our lives. Neither of us had been violent towards our…
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Full Metal Parenting #4: Interview with Jonathan Dick
In a few short years, Steel for Brains has become one of the most respected websites in this global metal community that we call home. Steel for Brains’ founder Jonathan Dick is regarded as one of the best interviewers out there, and he’s spoken to a lengthy list of metal’s legends and fascinating figures across…
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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…