All Known Metal Bands

McSweeney's has put out a coffeetable book called "All Known Metal Bands," which may or may not be a ripoff of metal-archives.com.

[www.boingboing.net] http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/15/is-all-known-metal-b.html

Description here:

[store.mcsweeneys.net] http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/87cd22...
"This volume contains the names of over fifty thousand metal bands. If one presumes that each of these bands had an average of four members, and multiplies that by the bands, one might figure that at least a quarter of a million humans have pledged allegiance to one of these groups of wandering beasts."

Uh, right. Because there's no overlapping membership at all?

(And as everyone around here knows, cataloging "all known bands" of any genre is a fool's errand...)

Ah yes, what fools we are.

More metal:

[www.comicvsaudience.net] http://www.comicvsaudience.net/images/flow_heavymetal.jpg

And [www.nme.com] http://www.nme.com/photos/681/1/the-world-s-wackiest-guitars