Metal tattoos

Sam Dunn’s Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey is a fanboy’s/girl’s dream come true. An inside look at the Rodney Dangerfield of music, metal finally gets some respect in Dunn’s throughly entertaining and well-researched 2005 documentary. In addition to being a hardcore metal head, Dunn has a degree in anthropology, so he not only brings a fan’s enthusiasm to the mix, he brings a scholar’s insight to a genre of rock that is often shunted-off as being music for dummies. Dunn sees more in the metal…

What’s life without something a bit peculiar, a bit weird, or straight-up surrealistically absurd? Some might even say that keeping your thoughts irregular is a kind of coping mechanism for unexplained happenings in your life. Like a plant dying the week after you bought it, the curve of success going all topsy-turvy, and your moods reflecting the temperature of global events.

James Alan Hetfield, who is famous as the Co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for the American Heavy Metal Band, Metallica, is an