Jessica Pimentel of Orange is the New Black / Alekhine's Gun on The MetalSucks Podcast #168

This week our guest on your favorite metal podcast is Jessica
Pimentel, both a metal musician and star of the hit Netflix series
Orange is the New Black. Her career has been taking off with the
portrayal of Maria Ruiz on the jailhouse drama, but her ties
to metal run deep, whether with her band Alekhine’s Gun, her main
squeeze (Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake), or just the circles she
runs with in her native Brooklyn. In our interview we talk about
her recent excursion to see Metallica at Webster Hall, her
relationship with heavy music, her background in classical, the
similarities and differences between being an actress and
musician, how close she was to ending her career as an actor, and
what "terrible" album she won’t admit to loving. We also talk about
Lords of Chaos being made into a Hollywood film. What does
it mean for an underground genre of metal to get the
dramatization treatment? We ponder what other stories in metal
might be worth telling in the same format; there have been plenty
of compelling narratives involving metal music and musicians
over the years, but which one would you choose to put on the silver
screen? What kind of disaster show will Hollywood make of the
soundtrack for this movie? What SHOULD the soundtrack include?
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