Dee Snider is on Celebrity Apprentice, hosts a syndicated radio show called House of Hair, does voice-overs, and has a memoir and a new album coming out. How does he do it? “There’s an eight foot sign right over [my] desk that my wife had made out of wrought iron by a local artist,” he told Snakkle in a recent interview. “It says, ‘Drink Coffee, Do Stupid Things Faster, And With More Energy.’ It’s my credo.” Then he laughs. “It’ll be on my tombstone. ‘He drank coffee. And he did things faster. And with more energy.'” The Twisted Sister frontman will appear on the new FEARnet series Holliston, a self-parodying sitcom about two guys who work at a Massachusetts cable station and want to make horror movies. Holliston stars successful horror filmmakers Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen) and Joe Lynch (Knights of Badassdom, Wrong Turn 2), and is somewhat based on their actual pre-success experiences, although the show takes serious liberties with reality. Snider plays their boss, Lance Rocket, who moonlights in a Van Halen cover band called (of course) Diver Down. We talked to Dee about the show, and how he wants people to know that he is not Lance Rocket. An edited version of that conversation follows.

You probably know about some of the more famous musicians who have made their faith public—Cat Stevens’ conversion to Islam, Bob Dylan’s to Christianity—but there are many more whose stories may surprise you. Sometimes it’s actually a rediscovery (many of them grew up in religious households, turned away from faith, and then rediscovered it later). So who are these stars who found God?

Rock stars and maniacal masters of metal are supposed to act wild, crazy, and out of control, right? Since the beginning of rock ‘n’ roll, many stars onstage have had their lives spiral out of control due to too much drinking and/or drugs. However, we rarely hear about many of these talented stars who settle down to care of new families or work with charities and organizations that seem to give them as much joy as playing any stadium. But that’s what we’re here for! Snakkle has rounded up a few rebellious rockers to see how they’ve tamed the fame beast over time.

You might know these celebs by their famous monikers, but these name changers traded in their birth names for mass appeal. A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but would you know what to call it? They do!

What is heavy metal? For some people, that topic that can generate more controversy than religion or Tim Tebow. Over the years, metal has split into more genres and subgenres than we have room to list here. Bottom line: We say you know heavy metal when you hear it. So there. Now that that’s settled, let’s take a look at some of the heaviest rockers around before they were stars.