Author: David Jón Fuller
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For anyone out there interested in what I’ve been up to, writing-wise, I wish I had more publishing news! But that’s the problem with working on novels. They take a long time in development, and a long time to find a publisher. For a lot of 2019, I continued to send out Bark at the…
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Much (perhaps too much) has been written about the demise of heavy metal as a commercial force in the wake of grunge in the early 1990s. And certainly, a lot of 1980s cock-rock bands found themselves out in the cold in a post-Nirvana and Pearl Jam world. That was too bad for the Killer Dwarfs,…
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OK, this is just a short Metal Monday post, because it’s mid-December and I’m not hearing enough of Motörhead’s version of “Run Rudolph Run” on the radio. (Go figure.) I was also inspired by Angélique Jamail’s series, 12 Days of Seasonal Earworms You Need Right Now. (If you want today’s actual Metal Monday post, click…
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On Dirty Weapons, the Killer Dwarfs incorporate more range and diversity in their sound, and the album was a worthy follow-up to Big Deal. The image they portrayed was less goofball than on the previous two albums. But the seriousness that was always a part of their lyrics remained. The eponymous album opener, “Dirty Weapons,”…
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Big Deal was, for the Killer Dwarfs, an apt title. The band had signed a contract with Sony for their third album, and had the chance to show that the video success of “Keep the Spirit Alive” was no fluke. That they were, in fact, a Big Deal. Given the video for their first single…
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Stand Tall was the breakout album for the Killer Dwarfs, and if you kept abreast of music videos in the winter of 1986-87, chances are you saw all or part of “Keep the Spirit Alive.” (Not that even such a successful video, played in heavy rotation on MuchMusic, MTV and network music video shows translated…