Saturday, November 8, 8pm

Sunday, November 9, 3pm

HELL YEA: A Heavy Metal Primer

Curated by Carlos Lama and David Wilcox

An intimate, sentimental, no-irony-intended foray into the thick of heavy metal culture, courtesy a parking lot full of Judas Priest fans, a Metallica-obsessed Canadian air-drummer, and a collection of the Most Insane Bands On The Planet (Venom, Slayer, and Morbid Angel among them). Everything Tipper Gore warned you about, and perhaps the greatest celebration of evil ever held inside a church!     

In 1986, David Wilcox purchased his first record, a cassette of Iron Maiden’s Powerslave.  Two years later, he ran away from home (for four hours) when his parents refused to let him skip school and buy Metallica tickets. In 2003, he could not be bothered to attend Houston concerts by either band. In short, he is arguably a poser. In 1977, Carlos Lama purchased his first record, a 45 rpm of Queen’s We Will Rock You b/w We Are the Champions. Three years later, he attended his first concert (Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow) with his father, a mistake never to be repeated. Sworn off stadium rock since 1981’s Texxas Jam, his teenage head-banging son proudly carries the metal torch.

(Material Support:  Kevin Bakos, Joshua Hughes, Adrian Lama, Jon Read, Quitty)

Program contains peppery language. Be advised.

A SIDEWALK FULL OF HESSIANS AND ONE BLACK MAN (1985)

METALLICA DRUMMER (1992)

Two words: ripping insanity.

HEADBANGERS v L.A. POSERS (1988)

Their bands, their jobs.

HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT (Jeff Krulik & John Heyn, 1986)

Rob Halford…I don’t know about you…

BRAZIL (1999)

It’s like to kill your brother with a knife.

VENOM IS LIKE A BRICK (1985)

We’ve said it all along.

THE MAJOR RAGER ON THE  4-STRING MOTHERFUCKER (1983)

A moment of silence, please.

HAVE YOU LEARNED THE WORDS TO OUR SONGS?  (1985)

Hell no longer awaits.

DEMETALLING/SATAN (1988)

If you do this, you are absolutely possessed.

I N T E R M I S S I O N

DEREK (Kurt, 1993)

In a nutshell.

DARK FUNERAL  (David Frazier and Sean Scanlan, 2002)

This was truly a good concert, very successful.

BLOODHAG (Brad Vanderberg, 2000)

Nothing set in the Star Wars or Star Trek universes…

BICEPS

Welcome to my book collection.