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The Ship of Fools...

 

The Captain of this silly ship MIKE BARONAS
Captain Metalbeard

Baronas’ first exposure to Metal – Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry notwithstanding – was via local `80’s music video station V-66 that played AC/DC’s “Sink the Pink” one fine afternoon. Angus Young’s raw guitar sound switched his ears on and he soon acquired the band’s entire back catalog.

Craving more intensity, Baronas took a chance and picked up Metallica’s Master of Puppets in 1986 – it reigns as the most-listened-to album of his life. He continued his conquest for power in 1987 and turned to Europe, purchasing Walls of Jericho by Helloween and To Mega Therion by Celtic Frost, the latter immediately becoming his favorite band to this day. Metal had become as equally important to Baronas as his love for Horror films, and the high school senior continued to listen to as many different bands as he could afford to on a Bradlees part-time salary.

At the time, Baronas often tuned in to a local college radio station’s Metal show and it was at that point that he decided he wanted to enroll in a school with a great Communications program (read: kick ass radio station). Fitchburg State College allowed him this opportunity and he joined forces with fellow staffer Mark Fields to create “The Big O Thash Show” for WXPL. Soon he was seeing, meeting & interviewing every band he had ever hoped to (with the exception of his first love, AC/DC, with whom he still hopes to shake the hands of someday).

Directionless upon graduation, Baronas decided to combine his two passions that he felt overlapped in many ways. The legendary half-Horror/half-Metal magazine G.A.S.P. etc. was the result. Six issues were produced and distributed internationally until 1994. This online version you’re currently viewing was resurrected 12 years later...

To view Baronas’ Horror-themed bio and DVD antics, please view our sister site, Paura Productions.

TOP 13 most frightening HORROR MOVIES

  1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  2. City of the Living Dead
  3. Jaws
  4. Cannibal Holocaust
  5. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  6. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  7. Phantasm
  8. Hellraiser
  9. Suspiria
  10. A Nightmare on Elm Street
  11. The Shining
  12. The Thing (1982)
  13. Poltergeist

TOP 13 favorite METAL ALBUMS

  1. Slayer – Reign in Blood
  2. Celtic Frost – Monotheist
  3. Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion
  4. Metallica – Master of Puppets
  5. Entombed – Clandestine
  6. AC/DC – Fly on the Wall
  7. Wargasm – Why Play Around?
  8. Bathory – Blood Fire Death
  9. Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
  10. Death – Spiritual Healing
  11. Destruction – Release From Agony
  12. Voivod – Dimension Hatross
  13. Trouble – s/t
     
   
Saucy   ALESHA BRUNELL
Saucy Wench

Alesha was fortunate enough to have cool parents that listened to good music. By age six, she knew Pink Floyd's The Wall by heart and was subjected to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, and Van Halen repeatedly. The first record she ever asked for (1982) was Stray Cats' Built for Speed.

With a good basic background to grow from, Alesha's explorations in music were limited to word of mouth, local rock radio stations and later, MTV. When the hair-metal era began, she embraced it. Not only did some of it stand out (Whitesnake's Slide it in, Skid Row's Slave to the Grind, etc.) but it also kept her out of the "in" crowd. For that she remains eternally grateful.

In 1988, a friend introduced her to the underground secrets of Metallica and then Slayer respectively. From then on it was over, metal had wrapped it's bloody fingers around Alesha's heart. During high school, when Metallica started to bore her, the radio sucked, and MTV turned into TVTV, she turned back to her roots. She broke out the old vinyl and delved deeply into Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Doors mainly. Until the fateful day someone handed her another life-changing tape, Death's Human. Thus beginning her never-ending quest to find more music that can make you close your eyes and smile.

Alesha likes to keep her taste buds open to all flavors of music but her addiction to metal prevents her from going a single day without some kind of metal fix. When she's not writing or working at her two jobs, she's spending all her spare time and cash on the support of music or trying to herd lost souls toward the omnipotent power of Music. Alesha still enjoys a good horror flick (esp. vampire), and started to really get into them as a kid, but lost focus when metal wrapped her around its finger.



TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

     1. Maximum Overdrive
     2. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
     3. House (all)
     4. Jackass (you cant tell me they don't horrify people)
     5. The Stand ("Come down and eat chicken with me Beautiful. It's so dark")
     6. Killer Clowns from Outer Space
     7. The Seventh Sign
     8. Witchboard (1987)
     9. Hellraiser (all)
     10. Labrynth (any movie with David Bowie is classified as horror right?)



TOP 13 METAL ALBUMS


      1. Death - Human
      2. Slayer - Reign in Blood
      3. Clutch - Live in Flint, Michigan
      4. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
      5. Reveille - Bleed the Sky
      6. Deftones - Adrenalin / Got Milk
      7. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
      8. Second Coming - Second Coming
      9. Scissorfight - Jaggernaut
      10. Marlyn Manson - The Last Tour on Earth
      11. Bloodsimple - A Cruel World
      12. All that Remains - This Darkened Heart / The Fall of Ideals
      13. Unearth - The Oncoming Storm

     
   
The Rabid One   ‘Rabid’ RICH CARON
Powder Monkey

The Rabid One has been a horror fanatic since the young age of 8 when he saw the original trailer to Friday the 13th before a showing of Popeye in 1980. Over time, his love for make-up FX grew but quickly diminished when he realized he wasn't good at it. He remained just a fan until 2001 when he became a member of the now defunct Spookyworld, scaring people from all over New England. That fun ended in 2003. Since then, acting has been in his blood and has continued on stage and screen. His film credits include Cricket Snapper, Eamon's Road, and Fetus (with 2 films pending later in 2006). 

Horror is Rich's life, his love, his reason for being.

 

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES
  1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  2. Battle Royale
  3. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  4. Cannibal Holocaust
  5. Nosferatu (1922)
  6. The Beyond
  7. Necromantik
  8. Evil Dead
  9. Meet The Feebles
  10. Psycho (1960)
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Matt Coe   MATT COE
Boatswain

Matt Coe has been an avid Metalhead since the age of 11. The first band to capture his attention in the heavy world was Iron Maiden, as he loved the shocking cover art with mascot Eddie and the energetic instrumentation on display. Coe’s first live show was Twisted Sister/Iron Maiden in January 1985 at the Worcester Centrum as Iron Maiden was in support of the Powerslave album.

Coe started writing for music magazines in his freshman year of college and hasn't stopped having opinions regarding music all these years. Favorite genres run the gamut from AOR and Progressive/Power Metal on through to the classic traditional Metal of Europe, Doom Metal and the Bay Area Thrash movement. He also has an affinity for technical Death Metal.

Coe doesn’t get the chance to go to as many shows as he would like as he is the father of two daughters and works overnights at Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA, but his love for Metal has never waned through the years.

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS
  1. Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth
  2. Wild Dogs – Reign of Terror
  3. Wuthering Heights – Far From the Maddening Crowd
  4. Iron Maiden – Piece of Mind
  5. Death – Human
  6. Accept – Restless and Wild
  7. Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance
  8. Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous
  9. UFO – Strangers in the Night
  10. Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian
     
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Texter   CHUCK FERREIRA
Bootymaster

Chuck was born in Ft. Worth Texas in 1971 and credits this for the fact that he’s a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. He’s also a true metal fan, having cut his teeth during his formative teenage years holed-up in his adolescent bedroom listening to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple vinyl. In Chuck’s opinion, “metal is an ever expanding genre, full of true artists and poseurs alike. The notion that metal needs to be all about Satan, or played at extreme speeds (although that can be cool sometimes) is silly.  Just look at bands like Black Sabbath, Sleep, or Kyuss…they’ve proved that sometimes slower is better.  It’s all about the riff. You can play as fast as you want, but if the riff has no ‘meat and potatoes’ behind it, then forget it. I don’t need to hear all that tinny mid-range sounding tone just because it’s fast and the singer is grunting like Cookie Monster talking about how Satan is his lord. Pffffttt.” 

Chuck is a fairly accomplished drummer, having played in a number of different types of bands over the years. His dream is to form a doom metal band and conquer the world with heavy, crushing riffs and canon-like drums. Until that happens, you can count on Chuck for his honest, “pull-no-punches” reviews and whatever Captain Mike wants him to write about. 

 

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

I’m hardly a horror aficionado like some of the other GASPers, that’s for sure. My definition of a good horror movie is one that makes the hair stand up on your neck, as opposed to grossing you out with gore and hacking. With that said, here’s my humble list (in no particular order).

  • Poltergeist
  • The Amityville Horror (1979)
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • The Omen (1976)
  • 13 Ghosts (2001)
  • White Noise
  • Jaws
  • The Exorcist
  • Rosemary’s Baby

 

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

Top ten lists are always an interesting thing…tastes vary so much from person to person, and truthfully, my own tastes vary day to day which makes this a daunting task. Am I going to claim that the following ten (actually, 17) albums listed below are the BEST metal albums of all time? Nah, I’d rather just say that these are my personal favorite heavy and metal records over the years so far. I should also point out that my list is in no particular order, and if you check back with me in a month, it will probably be different. 

  • Black Sabbath – Sabatoge
    This is the classic lineup Sabbath record that is often overlooked, but I say it’s the best of them all...it’s the perfect combination of the thunderous riffing that Iommi and Co. were so great at delivering, along with a certain amount of experimentation and drug-induced mania. It never fails to satisfy.
  • Metallica – Master of Puppets
    This is one of two records that I think the majority of GASPers will include on their list. These guys are the biggest, best-selling metal band of all time, and this is probably their best work. Play “Disposable Heroes” at 11, and you’ll remember why.
  • Sleep – Holy Mountain
    What’s not to like about this record? Huge Sabbath-like riffs and songs about dragons and crimson skies…it’s the prototype for the “stoner” metal movement.
  • Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun
    Kyuss created their own heavy stoner sound (and I mean HEAVY), and none of their records do a better job of conveying their sound than this one.  Listening to it today, it’s hard to believe it was released in 1992…highlights are “Thumb” and “Writhe”…
  • Black Sabbath – Masters of Reality
    The third record from the Ozzy-led Sabbath, this offering is flawless. The riffs are crushingly heavy, and Ozzy never sounded better…I dare say this is the Sabbath record which influenced more metal bands to follow than any other.
  • Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
    This is the record that thrust Soundgarden into the limelight, and it’s also their most fierce, heavy, and “metal” sounding disc. Soundgarden took a quantum leap forward in their songwriting and fully delivered the goods from beginning to end on this one. 
  • Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
    This record is the perfect marriage of “stoner” and “doom” metal into one massively heavy, thick, dense, black cloud of smoke…
  • Sepultura – Roots
    The Brazilian thrash legends were in full stride with this record…perhaps their heaviest sounding disc, they actually received a little bit of commercial exposure (remember “Ratamahatta”?) and influenced countless other bands in the “alternative metal” subgenere. This would also be the last record featuring the original lineup.
  • Prong – Cleansing
    Prong never quite reached that upper echelon of metal royalty, but they should have with this record. With the best line up the band ever had (Tommy Victor, Ted Parsons, and the newly added Paul Raven, formerly of Killing Joke, on bass), there isn’t one weak track here.  It’s a muscular, tight, and varied offering that surpasses anything they recorded prior (and yes, I’m including Beg to Differ on that list).  This is a great disc from an underrated, underappreciated band.
  • Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
    At this point, Pantera had pretty much become the biggest selling Metal band of the `90’s, and Far Beyond Driven is fierce, tight, and bludgeoning. This was the peak of their songwriting and playing—they would begin to lose focus after this one, but as far as “commercial” metal is concerned, it doesn’t get better than this.
  • Slayer – Reign in Blood
    Do I have to say anything? One of the greatest of all time...timeless and always satisfying. Every GASPer probably has this one on their list.
  • Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
    This record represents the height of Sabbath’s creative peak—full of ambitious, melodic metal, this record redefined what metal could be (acoustic guitars?!?) and set Sabbath’s critics back on their collective heels.
  • Ministry – Psalm 69
    Thrash and industrial were married together perfectly on this crushing release from Al Jourgensen and friends. The first time I put this disc in my player and hit play, it was like getting punched in the face—the record literally pummels the listener as it speeds along like a dump truck careening down a mountain road with no brakes. 
  • Fudge Tunnel – The Complicated Futility of Ignorance
    Loud, sludgy, and nasty, this record has a sound of its own. Imagine throwing Motorhead and Prong into a blender, and turning it up louder, and you might be able to imagine what this disc sounds like. It’s a relentless, angular and extremely heavy record and it, no doubt, influenced many bands to follow.
  • Helmet – Meantime
    Touted as the “next big thing”, Interscope Records won a huge bidding war to get Helmet signed, and they didn’t disappoint with this, their first major label release. It’s an amazing suite of songs, featuring Page Hamilton’s start-stop riffing and John Stanier’s precise, military drumming. No band was better at using space in their songs to ad impact to a riff than Helmet, and this record does it better than any other. Despite all the attention, the only track that hinted at commercial accessibility was the single “Unsung”.
  • Corrosion of Conformity – Blind
    On Blind, C.O.C. went headlong into a very metal direction which was a departure from their more core/metal crossover sound. From here on out, it was all metal, and Blind stands as record that was clearly years ahead of anything else released at the time (1991). Heavy and catchy all at once, C.O.C. kept their political and social commentary in the foreground while blazing new heavy trails. This is one of the most metal albums of the `90’s.
  • Godflesh – Selfless
    The best way to describe Godflesh is Sabbath-esque doom meets industrial. It’s a shame that Ministry and Nine Inch Nails tend to get all the attention as being the forefathers of metal/industrial, because Godflesh were doing it before either of them (while Al and company were busy singing about how much they loved Halloween), and they were extremely heavy in their approach. Selfless represents the culmination of a maturing songwriter (in Justin Broadrick) and a refining sound that became slightly more accessible, but still heavy and dissonant enough to scare away the trendy alt-rock kids. It’s a very heavy slab of doom-laden industrial wonder.
     
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MARK FIELDS
Quartermaster

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES (alphabetical)

  • Bad Taste
  • Day of the Dead
  • Dead Alive
  • Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
  • Maniac
  • Re-Animator
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Zombi 2

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS (alphabetical)

  • Believer – Dimensions
  • Death – Leprosy
  • Dew-Scented – Impact
  • Entombed – Left Hand Path
  • Kreator – Pleasure to Kill
  • Napalm Death – Enemy of the Music Business
  • Slayer – Reign in Blood
  • Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten
  • Terrorizer – World Downfall
  • Trouble – Psalm 9
     
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Goz - Possessed by Pork!   GOZ
Grogmaster

Goz has been a fan of Horror movies & Metal music since his teens. His first memorable horror movie moment was watching Night of the Living Dead on a local UHF station in the early `80’s. From there, it spiraled into The Evil Dead, Friday the 13th (on Boston’s Channel 38) and A Nightmare on Elm Street before venturing into some of the more classic horror movies. Somewhere along the way The Texas Chainsaw Massacre passed before his eyes, and things haven’t been the same since…the meat hook scene forever burned into his mind.

He was turned on to metal music during the mid-80’s, with Bay Area thrashers Megadeth, Metallica (now just ‘lica as far as I am concerned, because there isn’t any metal left in them), and Exodus paving the way. Other notable bands Goz enjoyed at the time were the almighty Slayer, and local thrashers Wargasm and Meliah Rage.

Once away at college, Goz befriended Mike Baronas and Mark Fields, who were the pioneers of “The Big ‘O’ Thrash Show” at the college radio station. This brought more extreme metal music to his ears, such as the great Entombed, Dismember, Carcass, and numerous other death and thrash bands. The search for even more diverse metal continued, and with it the birth of “The Noise at 9” – a segment on Goz’s radio show where he would play the nastiest, noisiest, and often times the least musical sounds to pass through the airwaves of WXPL. Favorite bands for this segment included Minch, A.C., Agathocles, and Seven Minutes of Nausea, to name but a few.

Today, Goz is a postal worker and is also an avid Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots fan.

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

  1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  2. Jaws
  3. Psycho (1960)
  4. Poltergeist
  5. The Shining
  6. Zombie
  7. The Thing (1982)
  8. Frankenstein (1931)
  9. Horror of Dracula
  10. A Nightmare on Elm Street

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

  1. Slayer – Reign in Blood
  2. Judas Priest – British Steel
  3. Entombed – Left Hand Path
  4. Metallica – Master of Puppets
  5. Iron Maiden – Powerslave
  6. Death – Individual Thought Patterns
  7. Brutal Truth – Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
  8. Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness
  9. Fear Factory – Soul of a New Machine
  10. Edge of Sanity – Crimson
     

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ERIC "Abra" Guntor
Chaplain

Eric fell in love with horror years and years ago going through his uncle's movie collection and finding The Evil Dead. Undead, gore, chainsaws, Bruce Campbell... it was the start of something beautiful. Since then HORROR is his life. Movies, games, books, art, jobs, tattoos, comics, music and beyond. Eric has also started his own horror/dark art based company called "Coroner's Creations" where he creates art and t-shirts for the masses.

TOP 10 DEATH ROCK/PUNK ALBUMS
(not so metal)

  1. Stiffs, Inc. - Nix Nought Nothing
  2. Stiffs, Inc. - Electric Chair Theatre Presents
  3. Blitz - Best Of Blitz
  4. The Brickbats - Creepy Crawly
  5. Slaughter & The Dog - The Punk Singles Collection
  6. The Brickbats - Monster Party
  7. Ghoultown - Give 'Em More Rope
  8. Gein And The Graverobbers - The Passion Of The Anti-Christ
  9. The Misfits - Legacy of Brutality
  10. The Trouble - Nobody Laughs Anymore

TOP 10 METAL/CORE ALBUMS

  1. Shai Hulud - Hearts Once Nourished With Hope And Compassion
  2. Slapshot - Greatest Hits, Slashes And Crosschecks
  3. Send More Paramedics - The Hallowed And The Heathen
  4. Poison The Well - The Opposite Of December...
  5. Scissorfight - Guaranteed Kill
  6. Isis - The Mosquito Control
  7. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
  8. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
  9. Acme - ...To Reduce The Choir To One Soloist
  10. Earth Crisis - Destroy The Machines

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  2. The Evil Dead
  3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  4. The Bride With White Hair
  5. The Fearless Vampire Killers
  1. Dellamorte Dellamore
  2. Return of the Living Dead
  3. Freaks
  4. Phantasm
  5. Battle Royale
     
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TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

  1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  2. Suspiria
  3. Eraserhead
  4. Halloween
  5. Basket Case
  6. The Evil Dead
  7. Barn of the Blood Llama
  8. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  9. Last House on the Left
  10. A Nightmare on Elm Street
 

BRANT JOHNSON
Cook

Brant has been a horror hound since he was a wee one watching A Nightmare on Elm Street movies when he was eight years old. Since then his tastes have grown into the bizzare and comic (Frank Hennenlotter, early Peter Jackson, Kevin L. West) and the extreme, nasty and disturbing (think I Spit on Your Grave). In the summer of 2005 Brant had his brains blown out playing a zombie in the yet to be released Doomed to Consume.

Brant's love for metal came about via Beavis & Butthead, Bill & Ted, and a Pantera concert during his senior year of high school. Brant loves all forms of metal but classic Bay Area thrash is his favorite. His favorite metal band, Impaler, plays a more punk-influenced, old-school metal style. Brant has also taken a great interest in punk (crust, hardcore, power violence, d-beat... basically the HARD stuff) due to the music's forward nature, energy, and the fact that it generally has something to say.

Brant grew up in St. Peter and Red Wing, Minnesota, graduated from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and now works for the Sherwin-Williams company in West Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is an avid supporter of the Aston Villa football club (that's soccer to most of you). In the past Brant has written for The Wake, BannedHorror.co.uk (RIP), and Gery Nible's late, great, HorrorWoodBabbleOn.com.

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

  1. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
  2. Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz
  3. Slayer – South of Heaven
  4. Judas Priest – Screaming for Vengeance
  5. Metallica – Master of Puppets
  6. Iron Maiden – Powerslave
  7. Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
  8. Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry
  9. Impaler – Rise of the Mutants
  10. Dio – Holy Diver

TOP 10 PUNK ALBUMS

  1. Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  2. Discharge – Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
  3. Misfits – Earth A.D.
  4. X – Los Angeles
  5. Aus-Rotten – The System Works for Them
  6. Suicide – s/t
  7. Fear – The Record
  8. Black Flag – Damaged
  9. The Adolescents – s/t
  10. Extreme Noise Terror – A Holocaust in Your Head
     
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ADAM KOHRMAN
Cabin Boy

Like many other people, I came into Metal because I was an angry middle-schooler. When I was in the seventh grade, I bought Pantera's Reinventing the Steel on the day of its release, and there was no turning back after that. By the end of middle school, I was a full blown Metalhead. Listening to this form of music over the years has been many things for me; from therapy, inspiration, and sometimes simply entertainment. In the past few years, I have found myself becoming more and more passionate about Metal, and I don't see any sign of stopping.

On the topic of horror films, I am not interested in them specifically, but more so film in general. I have been studying film and film history for the past four years independently, and hope to be either a film critic or professor. My friends describe me as a film snob, and they may be right.

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES (in no order)

  • The Exorcist
  • Freaks
  • The Shining
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • Hour of the Wolf
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  • Audition
  • Poltergeist

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

  1. Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth
  2. Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
  3. King Diamond – Abigail
  4. Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time
  5. Immortal – Damned in Black
  6. Hollenthon – With Vilest of Worms to Dwell
  7. Pantera – Cowboys from Hell
  8. Blind Guardian – A Night at the Opera
  9. Mercyful Fate – Melissa
  10. Tobias Sammett's Avantasia – The Metal Opera
     
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DAN McDERMOTT
Lieutenant

Dan cut his teeth as a horror and metal fan in junior high, while devouring Stephen King novels to the tunes of AC/DC, Iron Maiden, and Queensryche. His music tastes have remained firmly entrenched in the more contemporary annals of hard rock and heavy metal, sometimes to the chagrin of the other GASP Scallywagz. But once in a while, Dan manages to surprise the rest of the crew.

A professional writer by trade and prolific reader by night, Dan frequently contributes book reviews from his favorite genres: suspense, science fiction, and of course horror. He's a devout fan of the Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and all things Star Wars. Oh, and beer.

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

  1. The Shining
  2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  3. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  4. Friday the 13th
  5. A Nightmare on Elm Street
  6. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
  7. The Blair Witch Project
  8. The Ring
  9. Carrie (1976)
  10. Halloween

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

  1. AC/DC – Back in Black
  2. Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime
  3. Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
  4. Metallica – Master of Puppets
  5. Dokken – Tooth and Nail
  6. Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon
  7. Megadeth – Rust in Peace
  8. Skid Row – Slave to the Grind
  9. Faith No More – King for a Day
  10. Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution
     
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Bruce Millet   BRUCE MILLET
Gunnarlover

Bruce’s first concert was Johnny Cash at the age of twelve. The Man in Black’s darker songs made him delve into the darker and heavier side of music, thus finding Black Sabbath, his first true love affair with a band. Next came Judas Priest. Bruce finds it amazing that after almost thirty years of listening to these groups he can still go see them live and enjoy them today.

The first Horror film he saw in a theater was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That started his love of Horror, and he considers this to be the standard by which all other scary films are to be judged.

Every October for the last thirteen years Bruce has worked at Haunts, or haunted amusement attractions. Eleven of those years he has worked at SpookyWorld (“America’s Horror Theme Park”) playing “Leatherface”.

Over the last twenty years he has taken his passion for music and film and used it as an artistic outlet for filmmaking and acting. Bruce has made over one hundred short films and music videos.

When Mike’s not farting around on it, Bruce oversees the workings of GASPetc.com’s MySpace page.

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

  1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  2. Day of the Dead
  3. Phantasm
  4. The Exorcist
  5. Evil Dead
  6. The Gates of Hell
  7. The Changeling
  8. Session 9
  9. Dead Alive
  10. God of Vampires

TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

  1. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
  2. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
  3. Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
  4. Black Sabbath – Volume 4
  5. Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
  6. Black Sabbath – Sabotage
  7. Black Sabbath – Never Say Die
  8. Judas Priest – Unleashed in the East
  9. Slayer – Reign in Blood
  10. Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss
     
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Freddie "Dr. V" Poe  

FREDDIE ‘Dr. V ’ POE
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Freddie Poe (aka “Dr. Vollin MD”) is a classic horror addict and blames his mother for making him the mentally ill movie monster memorabilia maven that he is. The first horror film he remembers them watching together on an old Motorola was the original Frankenstein back in 1959 on "Shock Theatre" (or "Zacherley at Large"). He was 4 years old at the time.

To further fuel the fire, his mother’s cousin (Dr. Haddad) was married to TV’s original horror host John Zacherley's sister Laura. They met in medical school in Pennsylvania, the Zacherley home state. Poe got his first "Passport to Transylvania" in 1961, the year of the "Frankenstein Jubilee" via the Zacherley Fan Club. Poe later went on to collect everything related to Universal Monsters – from toys to magazines to movie posters.

Today at 50, he is the curator of the HOUSE OF POE, his private 8-room Monster Museum that pays homage to the greats like Lugosi, Karloff, the Chaney’s, Vincent Price, Rathbone, Lorre, Carradine and the rest. Poe also writes a monthly column for Movie Collectors World magazine called "How To Collect A Monster" going into its 4th year.

While Poe realizes that the "new world of Gods & Monsters" is now the "new world of Gore & Slashers", he can't give up his roots and would prefer to watch a B&W silent film any day.

While he doesn't write a whole heck of a lot for this site, there's no denying the Doctor's power over us all!

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES

  1. White Zombie
  2. Dracula (1931)
  3. Frankenstein (1931)
  4. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1932)
  5. The Black Cat (1934)
  6. Island of Lost Souls
  7. The Wolf Man (1941)
  8. The Man Who Laughs
  9. Mystery of the Wax Museum
  10. King Kong (1933)

TOP 10 'Psychedelic' ALBUMS

  1. Mountain – Twin Peaks
  2. Mountain – Nantu