Henry Rollins will publish a new autobiographical memoir next year.<\/p>\n
Bait Dog Boy is described by publishers Random House as “a searing memoir of a broken childhood and the hope of escaping it” and as “a coming-of-age story with the teeth and truth of a great punk anthem.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n A synopsis of the book reads: “What happens when a child grows up in an almost total vacuum of love? That was the reality for Henry Rollins, pioneering punk frontman of the seminal groups Black Flag<\/a> and Rollins Band<\/a>, who came of age in an environment seemingly determined to break him. <\/p>\n “For the first time, Rollins tells the story he spent most of his life trying to avoid, taking us through his childhood and adolescence – from a volatile Washington, D.C., childhood spent shuffling between indifferent parents, to his encounters with a seemingly endless parade of abusive adults, to his eventual meeting with Ian MacKaye, and their ultimate discovery of punk rock, which would become a lifeline. Rollins tells what it was like to live a life colored by the experience of constantly absorbing pain, like a bait dog. <\/p>\n “It\u2019s an unforgettable tale of what it means to not quite fit in anywhere, except on stage: A memoir as dynamic and singular as its subject.”<\/p>\n “I have no desire to be a survivor,” says Rollins writes. “I\u2019d rather accept, absorb, adapt, fight and break that which seeks to break me\u2014to be that which remains.”<\/p>\n Latest Videos From Louder<\/p>\n The book will be published on March 2, 2027 by Random House, and can be pre-ordered here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rollins has previously written about his experiences in the music industry and beyond in memoirs such as Get In The Van, Smile You’re Travelling, and Black Coffee Blues.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n