Driven by Refresh Backstage Passes Car Freshener

A Metal fans car can sometimes have objectionable odors emanating from it. From the stained nacho cheese dip molding from the Friday night joyride of years past, to the aroma known as "420", to the vomit from taking in too many cans of Budweiser (and this is not due to the volume of alcohol, we can handle the gallons, but rather due to drinking the wrong kind of alcohol.), the Metalheads car smell is one that is unwelcoming.

Every once in a while, we somehow-someway manage to find a moment to clean our car, and to match the ferocity of our music and it's culture, we now have the perfect item to enhance the experience of a clean car by placing the very last object every single car has when the job is complete. The car freshener.

Presenting Driven by Refresh Backstage Passes. A Metal way to say to the world that your car doesn't smell like crap.


They have a slew of other car fresheners, but today we focus on the most Metal of the batch. The 2 scents in question are Titanium Rain and Black Out, and if there ever was a way to make smelling good very Metal, here they are.

First up is Titanium Rain. I ask, if there ever was a planet where Metal is the law of nature, the rain would look like the aforementioned name of the scent.


The back of the package really exudes a Metal fans lifestyle, "Loud and Proud".


If I was to pick between the 2, I would say the scent Black Out is the more Metal of the 2. The reason? Black and gray with a pissed of skull looking right at you/your girlfriend on the passenger side seat/the driver in the next lane picking his nose/etc. Mind you, there is nothing wrong or less Metal with Titanium Rain, it is just like picking between the albums Painkiller and Screaming for Vengeance, 2 very awesome albums but if one had to be chosen, it would be Painkiller just because it is Priest at their HEAVIEST!6!6!6!


Now, it is time for the unveiling. First up Titanium Rain.


Here is Titanium Rain, adding to my cars Metal atmosphere (also known as the cassette adapter connected to my Ipod).


Next is Titanium Rains more evil twin brother, Black Out.


One of the best parts these car fresheners have is that they look like backstage passes that are issued to the few (or those who buy VIP passes and get to meet & greet their "Guitar Hero" for all of 15 minutes that is allowed in such engagements).


Here it is, scaring the crap out of my date. Notice she is not even in the car anymore.


To prove that these car fresheners look like backstage passes, I have made the executive decision to wear one at the expense of my ego.


Many HEAVY THANKS to Alfredo "the coffee slinger recorded on VHS" for taking this last minute pic on one of my many last minute goofball impulses I have every once in a minute or so.