John Wray’s latest novel follows three heavy metal-loving friends who come to LA and fall prey to the era’s excesses.
“She was gone before Cannibal Corpse took the stage.”
Wray’s novel follows Kip, Kira, and Leslie Z, three young people living on Florida’s Gulf Coast in the late 1980s. They come from unhappy homes but forge a friendship centered around their love for metal. They move from Florida to Los Angeles, where they hope to find deliverance in the Sunset Strip, the era’s glam metal capital.
Wray says he soon learned that people looked askance at the metal kids for reasons relating to class. Like the three characters in “Gone to the Wolves,” the metalheads of his Buffalo youth came from working-class backgrounds. “How many hundreds of novels and memoirs and films and TV shows have tried to engage with punk or new wave or post-punk?” he says. “You can point to some very fine films and books. But where’s a novel that was written about metal in America, where’s a film that takes metal as its subject and doesn’t treat it in a campy, tongue-in-cheek way?”
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