The audience, which consisted largely of bikers, was unusually hostile, and Iggy, as usual, fed on that hostility, soaked it up and gave it back and absorbed it all over again in an eerie, frightening symbiosis. In the essay 'Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage', critic Lester Bangs calls the album a 'documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control.' He describes the Stooges' concert he attended that immediately preceded the Metallic K.O. is an infamous live recording by The Stooges: during much of the performance, Iggy Pop sings while pieces of ice, eggs, beer bottles, jelly beans, and various other objects are thrown at him in response to his audience-baiting.
