HEAVY METAL WILL NEVER DIE!
Back in the March, 1987 issue of METAL, we printed a rather fateful letter. It seems these two guys over in Riverdale, CA—writing under the obvious pseudonyms of “David and Dick Waaktaar’’— absolutely hate heavy metal. As you’ll see from their letter (it kicks off this section), they think that metal is bad! Can you imagine?
HEAVY METAL WILL NEVER DIE!
Back in the March, 1987 issue of METAL, we printed a rather fateful letter. It seems these two guys over in Riverdale, CA—writing under the obvious pseudonyms of “David and Dick Waaktaar’’— absolutely hate heavy metal. As you’ll see from their letter (it kicks off this section), they think that metal is bad! Can you imagine?
Naturally, our 23,000,000 readers were outraged by these ninnies, and they let us know as much. Responses came a-pourin’ in—in fact, this single letter probably caused more controversy than any other letter we’ve ever received. Naturally, the whole thing turned into a forum on metal itself, with some side comments on how painful these Waaktaars’s deaths should be.
So sit back and enjoy your own magnificent literacy as you zestily defend metal from all who would speak out against it.
THE GAUNTLET