Since Pink and Heavy Rocks have already been mentioned, check out the split they did with Sunn O))), Altar. Fucking beautiful album.

A Sigur Rós musical would probably look fucking cool (I'd let Julie Taymor circa Titus direct it, and if they used Brennistein I would die) but Jónsi has said repeatedly that the Hopelandic lyrics are complete bullshit. Can't have a musical without a rousing sing-along, and I don't know if a given audience would be…

Metsatöll do indeed have awesome riffs, but rely more on AWESOME BAGPIPE SOLOS, which I believe is why they received money. Folk instruments! They must be Estonian cultural ambassadors!

It's probably more exposure than anything else. Metal 4 Africa lists quite a few bands operating out of almost every country. And you can mix metal with anything. It's like vodka in that way.

Finntroll reminds people that they have one of the highest rates of internet usage in the world.

*BRÜTÄL

Their bands tend to have the most try-hard named-by-a-teenage-boy names. Rotting Christ springs to mind.

There is a rather amazing Estonian metal band, Metsatöll, that recently toured in the United States and Canada with financial help from their government. It's nice to know that "federal subsidies for the metal industry" has two meanings in Estonia.

There you are wrong, my friend. Check out Wrust.

It's definitely not, but I'm not sure he understands that.

He said he got hip to the ADL! That's almost like an apology, if you squint at an angle.

I'm sure he wasn't trying to be offensive, or at the very least that he thinks we're post-antisemitism so antisemitic caricatures aren't offensive anymore, but I'm also sure that he is one of the dimmest bulbs available in the Home Depot warehouse of life. This incident proves that we should quietly (or loudly) remove…

I'm glad that an episode of Hannibal featured a man in a homemade mechabearwolf fursuit, and that the homemade mechabearwolf fursuit came into being through Hannibal's machinations. I'm just so glad that was a thing that happened.

You forgot the best part. "It was made to flop out, for the rape."

I am a little faceblind, but come on. They're both tricksy bearded blond muscular meatfridges with the stated goal of Fucking With Ragnar Lothbrok. If Borg starts going around in a bathtub then I'm doomed.

I would like Vikings a lot more if they had writers who knew what people sounded like.

No :( You were supposed to last another seven billion years!

Ehhh. The premises for Switched at Birth and Bunheads aren't necessarily as weirdly offensive as this one.

Eikmeier trained people to go to the middle east but I don't think she ever actually worked there - she worked mainly out of Colorado. This will be a fun trainwreck to witness.

They're not his slaves, they're his friends!