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Corroded Coffin was a heavy metal band consisting of four students from Hawkins High School. The band was fronted by Eddie Munson, with Gareth, Jeff and Freak 1 being the band members

History[]

Corroded Coffin - secret show leaflet

The band was founded around Winter 1981 by Eddie Munson (guitar, vocals), Ronnie Ecker (drums) and Dougie (guitar), who were friends and members of the Hellfire Club. It was created out of necessity for the Hawkins Middle School talent show, as participation was mandatory. Their first performance featured a cover of "Prowler" by Iron Maiden and " “Overkill” by Motorhead

Jeff presumably joined in 1982, playing bass while he was still in Middle School.[1] As Ronnie and Dougie graduated from High School in 1984, the band was left with two open spots. Before she left for college, Ronnie informed Eddie about Gareth also playing drums, which presumably resulted in him joining Corroded Coffin.

In 1985, Corroded Coffin was eating lunch in the cafeteria, talking about throwing a party at Eddie’s trailer. They were thinking about what album they should play at the party. So after school they went to the record store, and Eddie asked, is there any new metal albums out. Richard ( that works at the record store) said there’s this one called Exodus Bonded by Blood. And Eddie said I’ll take it. Eddie and Jeff were cleaning up Eddie’s trailer, and then Gareth and Freak 1 came back with ten 12 packs of beer and solo cup’s. It was 10pm at night the party began, almost the whole school was at Eddie’s trailer. And then Eddie took out Bonded by Blood by Exodus out of its case, he put it on the turntable, and then Eddie put the needle down, then Bonded by Blood was playing on high volume. Eddie trailer was shaking, that was best day of Eddie Munson’s life.

By 1986, the band performed weekly gigs on Tuesdays at the out-of-town dive bar known as The Hideout.

Corroded Coffin once put on a "secret show" after the homecoming dance one year. It was held at the Roane County Quarry (probably the Sattler Quarry) at 10pm.[2]

Trivia[]

  • All the band's members are also members of the Hawkins' High School D&D club, Hellfire Club.
  • The book Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus explicitly mentions the Middle School talent show to have taken place in 1981 while Eddie was in 8th grade. This doesn't fully add up with the fact that he is on his third try for High School graduation by 1986.
  • Chrissy Cunningham and Jeff's statuses as seniors imply that they would have been in 6th Grade while Eddie was 8th.
  • Although Season 4 is set in 1986, Gareth uses a 2010 model of Sabian B8 crash cymbal and a Zildjian ZBT hi-hat on his drums.
  • While Jeff is seen playing guitar in season 4, he is declared bassist multiple times in Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus. He was even originally consulted as bass player to round out the sound.[3] While this could be a mistake by the author Caitlin Schneiderhan, it is also perfectly possible, that Jeff simply took on the role that was needed by the band at that time.

References

  1. In Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus, which takes place in 1984, Eddie states that Jeff is in his Sophomore year and has been a member of Hellfire for around 2 years. It's likely he joined Corroded Coffin after learning about the band in one of the D&D sessions.
  2. A leaflet included in Hawkins Memories: Vecna's Curse
  3. Wording quoted from Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus, Chapter 1
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