80s metal week continues with The Headless Children, the first album from W.A.S.P. to actually make me consider them as more than a 80s metal shock-rock hybrid of KISS and Alice Cooper. I got the provocation and tongue-in-cheek of songs like “Animal (F— Like A Beast)” and the saw blade gauntlets Blackie Lawless adorned on the cover of The Last Command. But the music didn’t grab me at all until the theatrics were put aside (or at least toned down) to make way for Lawless’s songwriting and real inspiration. You want to think this band was in the band for the aforementioned artists, but if anything The Headless Children takes its cue and bows before the feet of prime, classic The Who.

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