These kids are so awesome. The Mini Band, famous for their version of Enter Sandman, is comprised of kids aged 8 to 10. (via channel5.com)
Music Buzz Call this a win for parenting. A group of eight to ten year olds perform a wicked rendition of “Enter Sandman” at the Bucklebury Beer Fest in the U.K.
Mashup artist Wax Audio does it again with this Metallica Vs. Stevie Wonder Mashup. I think I might like it better than “Stayin' Alive In The Wall.” (via vhx.tv)
A challenger appears! The gauntlet has been thrown. Who could live up to this new pinnacle of heavy metal? (via todaysbigthing.com)
Celebrity Buzz Christina Aguilera blowing the lyrics to “The National Anthem” hath wrought a new meme. There's a template at the bottom, so get to mutilating those songs and posting them in the comments!
An interactive map that charts the brutal landscape of metal music, where you can listen to tracks ranging from punk to black metal to grunge. It's incredibly thorough and easy to use. Here there be monsters of rock.
Especially Australian ones, judging by this video of guitarist Kirk Hammett kicking one. Also, Who brings their kid to a Metallica show?
Five minutes of awesome trick shots set to Metallica's Battery. These guys rock!
Enter Sandman is a great classic rock song, but is too hard to appeal to most listeners. Now there's a version that even your mom can “rock out” to.
Music Buzz A band calling itself Rock Sugar decided it would be awesome to do a mashup of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin' and Metallica’s Enter Sandman. The results are horrifying. (Via Giagantor.)
Metallica cover band + Gallagher, the prop comic = Metallagher! They will rock your watermelons.
Margaret Price became a Metallica fan when she was fighting cancer. While getting chemo, she'd stay up late listening to them on her MP3 player. The heavy metal got her through the tough times and on October 3 she'll finally be seeing them live. Wouldn't this picture make a great album cover?
Get your raffle tickets! Hunkystar is also a truly fantastic name for a sewing machine. And it's real. I checked.
Enjoy Metallica's early 90s hit, performed in 4 parts on kazoo. I remember buying that Apocalyptica Metallica album in high school and feeling like such a badass—I kind of wish the kazoo idea had occurred to me then.