Calling all metalheads out there in podcast land. Have I got the novel and episode for you. John Wray is here to talk about his brand-new novel, ‘Gone to the Wolves’, which author Raven Leilani describes as “a love letter to metal that captures both its brutal kinetics and its nearness to the sublime.”
The novel follows Kip, Kira, and Leslie Z, three teenagers living on Florida’s Gulf Coast in the late 1980s. All three come from unhappy homes, of one sort or another, but forge a friendship centered around their love for metal.
If you’ve been waiting for a novel to come along that treats metal with respect rather than parody, your wait it over. But even if you didn’t grow up watching ‘Head Bangers Ball’ or hoarding Metallica or Slayer records, there’s something in this novel for everyone.
In the last segment, Jon Verno, from the Metal Mayhem ROC podcast, and Tom Gigliotti, co-host of Shout It Out Loudcast, school me on several subgenres of metal mentioned in ‘Gone to the Wolves’, including death, thrash, black, and glam metal.
MEDIA AND MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
LINKS:
Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451
Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350
Video of Tenpole Tudor’s song “Wunderbar”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx7QFFlV9M
John Wray’s ‘Gone to the Wolves’ playlist for Largehearted Boy: https://largeheartedboy.com/2023/05/22/john-wrays-playlist-for-his-novel-gone-to-the-wolves/
John Wray’s website: http://www.johnwray.net/
John Wray on Twitter: @John_Wray
John Wray on Instagram: @thejohnwray
John Wray on Facebook: @JohnWray
Shout It Out Loudcast website: https://www.shoutitoutloudcast.com/
Metal Mayhem ROC website: https://www.metalmayhemroc.com/
Christy Alexander Hallberg’s website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/
Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg
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Calling all metalheads out there in podcast land. Have I got the novel and episode for you. John Wray is here to talk about his brand-new novel, ‘Gone to the Wolves’, which author Raven Leilani describes as “a love letter to metal that captures both its brutal kinetics and its nearness to the sublime.”
The novel follows Kip, Kira, and Leslie Z, three teenagers living on Florida’s Gulf Coast in the late 1980s. All three come from unhappy homes, of one sort or another, but forge a friendship centered around their love for metal.
If you’ve been waiting for a novel to come along that treats metal with respect rather than parody, your wait it over. But even if you didn’t grow up watching ‘Head Bangers Ball’ or hoarding Metallica or Slayer records, there’s something in this novel for everyone.
In the last segment, Jon Verno, from the Metal Mayhem ROC podcast, and Tom Gigliotti, co-host of Shout It Out Loudcast, school me on several subgenres of metal mentioned in ‘Gone to the Wolves’, including death, thrash, black, and glam metal.
MEDIA AND MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
LINKS:
Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451
Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350
Video of Tenpole Tudor’s song “Wunderbar”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx7QFFlV9M
John Wray’s ‘Gone to the Wolves’ playlist for Largehearted Boy: https://largeheartedboy.com/2023/05/22/john-wrays-playlist-for-his-novel-gone-to-the-wolves/
John Wray’s website: http://www.johnwray.net/
John Wray on Twitter: @John_Wray
John Wray on Instagram: @thejohnwray
John Wray on Facebook: @JohnWray
Shout It Out Loudcast website: https://www.shoutitoutloudcast.com/
Metal Mayhem ROC website: https://www.metalmayhemroc.com/
Christy Alexander Hallberg’s website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/
Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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