Under The Blade (song)

"Under the Blade" was a single released by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister in 1979. In 1982, the song was used as the title track for their debut album, Under the Blade.

In 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center named "Under the Blade" as one of Twisted Sister's objectionable songs, claiming that the song was about sadomasochism, bondage, and rape. However the group's frontman and the song's author, Dee Snider, vehemently denied the claims and repeatedly stated—including in memorable testimony before a United States Senate committee in response to questioning by Senator Albert Gore, Jr.— that the song was actually about surgery (specifically Eddie Ojeda's throat operation at the time) and the fear it can instill in people.

Twisted Sister
  • Dee Snider
  • Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda
  • Jay Jay French
  • Mark "The Animal" Mendoza
  • A. J. Pero
  • Band members
Studio albums
  • Under the Blade
  • You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll
  • Stay Hungry
  • Come Out and Play
  • Love Is for Suckers
  • Still Hungry
  • A Twisted Christmas
Live albums &
compilations
  • Big Hits and Nasty Cuts
  • Live at Hammersmith
  • Club Daze Volume 1: The Studio Sessions
  • We're Not Gonna Take It
  • Club Daze Volume II: Live in the Bars
  • The Essentials
  • Live at Wacken: The Reunion
  • A Twisted Christmas - Live
Singles
  • "Under the Blade"
  • "Day of the Rocker"
  • "Sin After Sin"
  • "We're Not Gonna Take It"
  • "I Wanna Rock"
  • "The Price"
  • "Leader of the Pack"
  • "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
  • "You Want What We Got"
  • "Hot Love"
  • "Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant)"
  • "One Bad Habit"
  • "White Christmas"
  • "Silver Bells"
  • "Deck the Halls"
  • "30"
Other
  • Albums
  • Songs


Famous quotes containing the word blade:

    “When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination. When he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Wherever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognized as such, was what constituted reality for him.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)