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Senior Citizens In Trouble For Terrorizing Neighbors With the Power of Iron Maiden

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:58:26 +0000

Since the members of Iron Maiden are all well into their 50s it shouldn't be a big surprise that some fans of the seminal heavy metal band are now old enough to collect retirement benefits.

Instead it's what a 71-year-old woman from Stockholm, Sweden and her 81-year-old husband did with their Iron Maiden record collection that's noteworthy.

Metal Version of Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' Surprisingly Rocks

Emerald Catron — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:40:29 +0000

This is the perfect way to relive those golden years back in the ’90s before you hardened your heart and started listening exclusively to death metal. It’s a metal guitar version of your 12-year-old self’s favorite song — ‘Barbie Girl’ by Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua. If you have to pretend you don’t know the words, [...]

Metal God Eric Calderone Rocks the 'Super Mario Bros.' Theme

Kyle Dowling — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:20:44 +0000

Just when we thought America’s favorite video game, ‘Super Mario Bros.,’ couldn’t get any better — enter YouTube’s 311Erock, aka rocker Eric Calderone. In this video, Eric shows us that not all metal riffs and/or tones are used for moshing, horrorÂ movies and making parents angry.Â Getting not only the theme song down perfectly but also [...]

Dude Gets Disability Benefits for His Addiction to Heavy Metal

Wes Glinsmann — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:00:00 +0000

A Swedish man was recently awarded unemployment benefits after getting his addiction to heavy metal music classified as a disability. 42-year-old Roger Tullgren is a self-described metal head who says he got hooked on the stuff when his older brother brought home a Black Sabbath album in 1971. Since then, his psychological addiction has led, [...]

'Balloon Boy' Is Back and Fronting a Heavy Metal Band

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 05:01:11 +0000

Remember the Balloon Boy? That would be Falcon Henne, who for a few moments had the nation on edge after his parents claimed the-then six-year-old had sailed away unaccompanied in a hot air balloon. When the balloon did land Falcon was nowhere to be found and it turned out he had been hiding in the [...]

What If Metal Were Smooth Jazz?

Joe Russo — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:09:49 +0000

Lamb of God is notorious for their driving, hard rock and helped to usher in a new wave of American Heavy Metal in the last decade. However, this mash up let’s you wonder what it would have been like if Lamb of God ushered in a new wave of Smooth Jazz. You might say it [...]