John Wray On His Metal-Centric Novel ‘Gone to the Wolves’, & Jon Verno From Metal Mayhem ROC & Tom Gigliotti From Shout It Out Loudcast Give a Crash-Course on Metal Subgenres

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:

• Clip from the ‘Today’ show from May 26, 2023—book review by Isaac Fitzgerald of ‘Gone to the Wolves’
• Royalty-free Doom Metal Instrumental “The Witch”
• “Wunderbar” by Tenpole Tudor
• “Kickstart My Heart” by Motley Crue
• "Denial of Life” by Death
• “Transmission” by Joy Division
• “I Want You” by Hanoi Rocks
• “Thus Spake the Nightspirit” by Emperor
• “Ace of Spades”by Motorhead
• “Witches’ Dance” by Mercyful Fate
• “Breaking the Law” by Judas Priest
• “Fade to Black” by Metallica
• “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath
• “Hammer Smashed Face” by Cannibal Corpse
• “Deathcrush” by Mayhem (Dead on vocals)
• “Seasons in the Abyss” by Slayer

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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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