Metal leaks

I’m sure you’ve all heard about Asange in one way or another. You might hate him or think of him as a modern Robin Hood disguised like Che Guevara.

 who steals from those who know and shares with those who don’t. You shouldn’t be afraid

I won’t be trying to attack or defend him just want to share with you some inside information. Leak it out if you will. Because not many people know, that he is a sucker for metal, especially for one band in particular. He is so fond of that band that he even cut them some slack when he came across information about them. Technically he stopped it from being leaked, which, obviously is against everything he stands or seems to be standing for.
What was this all about? In the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties the number of deaths between youngsters was rising while the average health condition was deteriorating. After running a couple of surveys the government realized that most youngsters don’t know what to do in an emergency, they don’t even know the number to dial. This was especially true between punks and metalheads. So the Minister of State, Health and Social Security, Sir James Goodhelth made an unofficial proposition to those who could make themselves heard by these youngsters: the musicians. He stated that if some well known punk or metal band would release a song that makes the emergency call number more popular between that segment, he would grant them something everyone thought impossible: a No 1 place on the UK charts. None of the bands rushed to this opportunity and not because of their pride but because nobody believed that a No.1 can happen, even with help from the government. There was one band though who gave it a shot, an all girl band called Girlschool. They recorded a song titled emergency and in the chorus they repeat extensively 999 Emergency, but Sir Goodhelth didn’t think they got through to enough people, so didn’t grant them the big prize. Then entered the picture the big brother of Girlschool, a band that we all known and love, just as Julian Assange.

I’m talking of course about Motörhead. They decided to take the aforementioned Girlschool song and record it themselves and they released that song on the joint EP called St’ valentine Day’s massacre.

This finally satisfied the Health Minister and he, as a true Lord kept his word and made sure that Motörhead’s next album, No sleep ‘till Hammersmith peaked at No.1, being the first metal album to achieve this feat. It was a great moment for the band in particular and for the whole genre in general but this success had a bit of an aftertaste. All this of course happened – as is usual for governments all around the world – behind closed doors as none of the parties wanted the news to get out. It remained classified information until the Wikileaks team acquired it via an anonymous insider but Assange decided that he won’t let his favourite band be stained so he stopped the information from being leaked. He threw it to the garbage where it was found by a cleaner who owed me a favour so he gave it to me. I, on the other hand, despite being a huge Motörhead fan as well, decided that I should share this information with you and chose today as a good day to share it.

Now, I would like to talk a bit about the song that I chose to accompany this post. Choosing the song in question –Emergency – would have been too obvious, so I had to look for something else. Given Mr. Assange’s weakness for wome things from Sweden I decided to choose a song from a Swedish band. My original note read:” an Abba metal cover song or something from Sweden, maybe Arch Enemy leader of the rats??” but then the obvious choice struck me. Hammerfall’s Any means necessary is the perfect choice. Assange was trying to do his mission by any means necessary, now his enemies are trying to silence him the same way and is a song from Sweden, it’s absolutely perfect.

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