THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL LISTS ATTENTION HEADBANGERS! BE LISTLESS NO MORE!
Heavy Metal music and crummy science fiction movies have a lot in common. They both eventually will end? No such luck, little cinematographers. We’re talking about such endearing traits as fun-though-predictable, lousy and great at the same time, and loud if you sit too close.
THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL LISTS ATTENTION HEADBANGERS! BE LISTLESS NO MORE!
Rick Johnson
Heavy Metal music and crummy science fiction movies have a lot in common. They both eventually will end? No such luck, little cinematographers.
We’re talking about such endearing traits as fun-though-predictable, lousy and great at the same time, and loud if you sit too close. It’s like sci-fi film & poster expert Alan Adler said about The Land Unknown: “Not the first or last mythical kingdom discovered by a blundering expedition 83 minutes before the setting is destroyed by volcanic eruption.”
You can say the same thing about the double deerslug barrels of Heavy Metal rock. Just substitute Ronnie James Dio for “mythical kingdom,” the new Van Halen album for “volcanic eruption” and you, the listener for “blundering expedition.”
You still don’t see the connection? Well, that’s OK. To be honest with you, I’m pretty sure nobody out there is even reading any of this typographical bed rest by this paragraph. Really! Watch: Testing! 1-2-3-4! Testing! Yoohoooooo! See? Rotorooter calling, nobody home.