For all of the albums that Frank Zappa released, the late great only wrote one song with his son Dweezil. That song, titled “Dragon Master” is a metal-influenced fantasy tune, and is getting its first-ever release on November 27th on Dweezil Zappa’s forthcoming Via Zammata album.
The younger Zappa recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the project, saying, “In the late Eighties, when heavy metal still topped the charts, Frank told me about a new song he had written and he had a look on his face that indicated there was something special about it… “I asked him the name of it, and he said with [a] smile, ‘Dragon Master.’ I grew up being inspired by early metal guitarists like Tony Iommi and Randy Rhoads. My dad told me I should write the music for the song and he handed me the lyrics. They are filled with epic metal imagery. I tried to match the intensity of the lyrics with a riff reeking of classic metal.”
Enjoy “Dragon Master” below:
The song is quite absurd, undoubtedly some of the Zappa family’s finest work.
[Photo via Rolling Stone]