| Jesse Blaze Snider | |
|---|---|
 Snider in 2010 | |
| Born | September 19, 1982 |
| Nationality | American |
Notable works | Creator of the Dead Romeo graphic novel series, writer of Evil Ernie 2012 reboot |
| Spouse(s) | Patti (m. 2007) |
| Children | 4 |
| http://www.jesseblaze.com | |
Jesse Blaze Snider (born September 19, 1982) is an American comic book writer, voice-over actor, TV and radio host, and rock musician. He is the eldest son of Twisted Sister frontman and vocalist Dee Snider. [1]
Snider has hosted MTV2 Rock, The MTV2 Rock Countdown, as well as shows on Fuse TV and HBO. He was the host of Haunted Live on the Travel Channel until the end of 2018. [2]
He was a radio DJ on 98.5 The Bone and on WLIR-FM.
He also co-hosted the last installments of Qore, an interactive online magazine from PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3.
Snider has been the narrator of Food Paradise for the Travel Channel since 2014 and has done narration for Museum Secrets (Smithsonian Channel). [3]
He has served as the voice of Pizza Hut, GameStop, and Cheetos. [4]
Snider was the music consultant for Dee Snider's film Strangeland (1998). [5]
In 2008, Snider appeared on the reality television singing competition Rock the Cradle , which featured the offspring of famous singers competing against one another. [6] Snider came in second place, behind winner Crosby Loggins. [1]
Snider wrote and performed "G.U.T.", the theme song to his family's reality show Growing Up Twisted (2010), and "Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Dead", which he performed with his father Dee on the show. [7] The song "Go With Me", written for his eldest daughter's christening, was featured on the show. [1]
In 2012, he released the single "Twisted," which would eventually appear on the album The Slip: Love Songs from a Serial Killer, produced by Matt Squire and GoodWill & MGI, among others.
His single "Crank it Up" was featured on ESPN coverage of NCAA college football in 2012. [8]
In November 2014, the single "Promised Land," co-written with Frederick Scott and performed by Snider, was featured on Monday Night Football . [9] The music video was directed by John Herzfeld. [10]
The soundtrack to the film Reach Me (2014) features the song "Alive," written and performed by Snider. [11] John Herzfeld, who wrote and directed the film, directed the music video.
Snider wrote and performed the theme song "Juggernaut" for The Movie Crypt podcast. [12] The song was subsequently used as the international theme song to the related TV series Holliston .[ citation needed ]
In 2016, Snider won in the Novelty/Comedy category of the USA Songwriting Competition with his song "Fight to Death", cowritten with Freddy Scott. The song won 3rd overall grand prize. [13] That same year he was named one of Music Connection's Hot 100 Live Unsigned Artists & Bands. [14] His song "Got Your Number" was featured on ESPN's First Take in March 2016. [15] That year he released his debut album 16, which included the songs "Crank it Up", "G.U.T.", "Go With Me", and "Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Dead". [10]
His album Come With Me If You Want to Live was released in 2020.
Snider's first professional work in comics was writing a Deadpool short called "Fun With Ninjas" (Marvel Comics Presents, volume 2 #10, August 2008). [16]
In 2009, Snider created the Dead Romeo graphic novel series. [17] [18] On December 9, 2009, the first issue of an ongoing Toy Story comic from Boom! Studios written by Snider was released. He wrote a four-issue prequel to the motion picture Strangeland for Fangoria Graphix called Strangeland: Seven Sins , though only the first issue of the series was released before Fangoria went bankrupt.
In 2010 Snider wrote the Marvel One-Shot installment Hulk: Let the Battle Begin. [19] He wrote the reboot issues of the comic series Evil Ernie , drawn by Jason Craig, the first of which was released in October 2012. [20]
On October 12, 2016, Snider released Black Light District: 6 Issues from Image Comics, a combination of comic book and soundtrack. [21] [22] It features six short stories based on the six tracks from his EP album of the same name.
Snider and wife Patti (m. 2007) are parents of four children: daughter Logan Lane (b. April 2009), sons Cassidy West and Grayson Wayne (b. September 2014), and daughter Parker Pryde (b. August 2016). His youngest daughter was born on L.A.'s 405 Freeway in the car on the way to hospital. [1]
Daniel Snider is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. The band's song "We're Not Gonna Take It" reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was ranked No. 47 on 100 Greatest 80's Songs. Snider later formed and was the lead singer in the heavy metal bands Desperado, Widowmaker, and SMFs. He also released several solo albums. Snider was ranked #83 in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.
Twisted Sister was an American heavy metal band formed in 1972, originally from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and later based on Long Island, New York. Their best-known songs include "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock", both of which were associated with music videos noted for their sense of slapstick humor.
Under the Blade is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released on Secret Records in September 1982. It was produced by UFO/Waysted bassist Pete Way and featured an aggressive and hard-hitting sound, which was eventually ignored on a remixed re-release by Atlantic Records on June 13, 1985. The re-release also added a remixed version of the song "I'll Never Grow Up, Now!", the band's long-forgotten 1979 single. The Atlantic Records release was both an attempt to cash in on the commercial success of Stay Hungry and, by then, the only official way to get the album as Secret Records was no more. However, bootlegs with the original mix were still in circulation. On May 31, 2016, Eagle Records re-released Under the Blade in a digital remastered form with the original mix finally restored. Under the Blade has sold over two million copies worldwide.
The Last Temptation is the thirteenth solo studio album by American rock singer Alice Cooper, released on July 12, 1994, by Epic Records. It centers on a boy named Steven, and a mysterious showman. The showman, with apparent supernatural abilities, attempts with the use of twisted versions of morality plays to persuade Steven to join his traveling show, "The Theater of the Real - The Grand-est Guignol!", where he would "never grow up".
Stay Hungry is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released on May 10, 1984, by Atlantic Records. The album contains the band's two signature songs: "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock", both of which remain a staple of '80s glam metal and rock. According to RIAA certification, Stay Hungry is the band's most successful release by far and their only platinum album. Eventually, the album achieved multi-platinum status in U.S. with sales of more than 3,000,000 certified copies by 1995.
Love Is for Suckers is the fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister. It was released by Atlantic Records on July 3, 1987. It was the band's last album before their breakup and subsequent reunion and release of Still Hungry in 2004. It is also their last album to be composed of entirely new, original material.
"I Wanna Rock" is a song written and composed by Dee Snider and performed by his band Twisted Sister. It was released on the 1984 album Stay Hungry.
"We're Not Gonna Take It" is a song by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister from their album Stay Hungry. It was first released as a single in May 1984.
Strangeland is a 1998 American horror film written by Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. The film centers around a police detective trying to save his city, as well as his daughter, from an online predator who enjoys bringing "enlightenment" through ritual pain.
Still Hungry is an album by the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released in 2004. The album is a re-recording of the 1984 album Stay Hungry, with seven bonus tracks. "Never Say Never" and "Blastin' Fast & Loud", were demoed during the original 1984 sessions, completed by the classic line-up in 2001 and recorded for the release of Club Daze Volume II: Live in the Bars in 2002. "Come Back", "Plastic Money", "You Know I Cry" and "Rock 'n' Roll Saviors" are brand new 2004 studio tracks. "Heroes Are Hard to Find" was originally recorded and released in 1998 by the reunited band for the soundtrack of Strangeland, a horror movie written by and starring frontman Dee Snider based on the character Captain Howdy from "Horror-Teria".
"Leader of the Pack" is a song written by George "Shadow" Morton, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich. It was a number one pop hit in 1964 for the American girl group the Shangri-Las. The single is one of the group's best known songs as well as a popular cultural example of a "teenage tragedy song". The song was covered in 1985 by the heavy metal band Twisted Sister, who had a more modest hit with their version.
Andy Shernoff is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and keyboards, and sang backing vocals and occasional leads. He has been involved with a variety of other musical projects, most notably the heavily Dictators-populated Manitoba's Wild Kingdom and Joey Ramone's first studio album, Don't Worry About Me. He additionally co-wrote four Ramones songs with Joey.
The Scream Factory is an American publisher of horror comics. Most, if not all titles published by The Scream Factory are film-related.
Crosby Sullivan Loggins is an American singer and songwriter. He is the oldest son of Grammy winning artist Kenny Loggins and his first wife, Eva Ein. In 2008, he was the winner of MTV's Rock the Cradle.
Never Let the Bastards Wear You Down is a studio album by American singer Dee Snider released on August 22, 2000. The album title is a reference to the mock-Latin aphorism Illegitimi non-carborundum.
Dead Romeo is a comic book series from DC Comics, written by Jesse Blaze Snider with art by Ryan Benjamin. The series, begun in April 2009, follows the journey of the undead rock star, Jonathan Romero as he attempts to save his lover, Whisper, from certain death.
Dee Does Broadway is the second album by Dee Snider, the frontman of Twisted Sister, after 12 years without any release. It was produced by Snider, Patti LuPone and Bebe Neuwirth. Guests in the album include the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Cyndi Lauper, Clay Aiken and Nick Adams.
"The Price" is a song by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released in 1984 as the third and final single from their third studio album, Stay Hungry. The song was written by Dee Snider and produced by Tom Werman. "The Price" failed to reach the US Billboard Hot 100, stalling at number 8 on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart in January 1985.
Blood and Bullets is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Widowmaker, released on July 28, 1992.
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