#i made billy the drummer but w/ emily’s personality

[stranger-rants]

I thought about a Metalsandwich AU based on Metal Lords recently…

Eddie is a D&D metalhead who is tired of being the outcast. When he’s not finding new ways to mess with uptight jock Jason, he’s training his best and only friend Steve on all things metal so they can enter the school’s Battle of the Bands. Their competition is the mediocre but popular shoe-gazer band Surfer Boy which includes members Jonathan and Argyle who are actually the nicest guys. The problem is that Eddie and Steve need a drummer who doesn’t suck. Enter Billy who just moved from California. Steve catches him practicing in the music room after school, and he’s good. Really good. The problem is that Billy has anger issues a mile wide and he’s the wrong kind of metalhead for metal snob Eddie who won’t accept Billy into the band - not that Billy wants to be part of their shitty band to begin with. Still, Steve is determined to get them to work together. Steve bonds with Billy through secret jam sessions. Eventually, they start hooking up on the side. Meanwhile, Eddie’s causing chaos and mayhem in his effort to boost his band’s popularity. Steve and Billy have to find a way to rein him in before he lands himself in the psych ward for loving metal way too much.