![]() ![]() Former frontman of Chris Poland’s eclectic mid-nineties post-Megadeth outfit Mumbo’s Brain. Uber-editor of gobstoppingly comprehensive horror anthologies such as Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed and Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane. John Skipp is the paradigmatic Renaissance Man in the world of bizarro carnage, and those tempted to doubt it should first consider the laurels draped around his neck: Stalwart/progenitor of the gore-festooned splatterpunk literary revolution. ![]() If our hero isn’t actively channeling the book’s co-author in this passage, he might as well be. ![]() “We have to raise hell, man,” Jake Hamer chides his wavering rock n’ roll brethren early on in John Skipp and Craig Spector’s 1988 let’s-give-the-fucking-PRMC-something-to- really-fear barnburner The Scream. Welcome to Tales From the Metalnomicon, a new twice-monthly column delving into the surprisingly vast world of heavy metal-tinged/inspired literature and metalhead authors… ![]()
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