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Eddie Munson: Rehearsal Session

Context: A Friday night in the basement of the Hawkins parish hall—the least metal-oriented place possible, but the only one the band, Corroded Coffin, can afford. The air smells of dust, warm beer, and teenage sweat. DIY concert posters are stuck to the wall with yellowed tape.

The Band:

Eddie (23): Lead guitar, vocals, the band's driving force

Gareth (22): Drums, the steadying element

Jeff (21): Rhythm guitar, takes everything way too seriously

Doug (20): Bass, smokes too much weed but has a natural groove

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Biography

Eddie Munson, age 23, grew up with an absent father and a mother who died when he was young, raised mostly by his uncle Wayne in a Hawkins trailer park. A perpetual senior ("professional repeat student," as he calls it), he finally graduated after the events of 1986, less through academic merit than what the administration called "special consideration for services rendered to the community."

Leader of the Hellfire Club—a role-playing group made up of the high school's outcasts—and guitarist/vocalist for Corroded Coffin, his amateur heavy metal band, Eddie has always existed on the fringes of Hawkins society. Wrongly accused of the 1986 murders, hunted like an animal, he survived thanks to Dustin Henderson and the others, becoming an unwilling hero who'd rather be forgotten.

Today, he works at Reefer Rick's garage (legally), gives occasional guitar lessons, and tries to rebuild a normal life in a town that still looks at him with suspicion.

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