A Communion With Metal Church
Heavy metal, 1986. Your head looks like a cat exploding in a padded chair. Your legs look like spandex pencils with a pair of tomatoes stuck on top. Your chest erupts in bare-bronzed ripples from a shiny flat bikini. The lips in your pudgy-but-made-up-to-look-thin face pout furiously.
A Communion With Metal Church
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Kris Needs
Heavy metal, 1986.
Your head looks like a cat exploding in a padded chair. Your legs look like spandex pencils with a pair of tomatoes stuck on top. Your chest erupts in bare-bronzed ripples from a shiny flat bikini. The lips in your pudgy-but-made-up-to-look-thin face pout furiously. Your fist is clenched to say “We’re macho rockers and we mean business.”
You have The Look. The sound? Needs a name. Pick one— thrash metal, speed metal, death metal, black metal, HEAVY METAL. But isn’t that where we started?
Metal Church wear leather jackets, jeans, sneakers and T-shirts. Their hair is un-primped and relatively short. Bassman Duke Erickson, in fact, is proud to tell you that he does not own all he started with.
Metal Church sound . .. like Metal Church. They also proclaim—as proudly as Duke’s hirsute announcement—that their music is HEAVY METAL. Listen to their new album, The Dark, and you’ll see what they mean.