Back-to-School Essentials for the Metal Kiddies

School. A place where learning is the endgame. These days, it seems schools have become more like kiddie prisons a la juvenile hall, instead of preparing kids for the inevitable future that is adulthood.

When you were in school, you customized your learning utensils (folders, pencils boxes, bookbags), and Metalheads were no different, except we knew how to customize our learning gear. The folders pencil boxes would be emblazoned with crudely drawn skulls, pentagrams, band logos, people we wanted to kill in stick figure detail etc. The book bag would have the usual dump truck load of patches/buttons/pins that would match the denim vest in terms of number and intensity.

This was then, when we needed to make our mark with what ever we had, as those days school utensil suppliers would make supplies very neutral and plain looking.

These days however, it seems the school supply depot has gotten a very serious infections of a virus known as "Metalus in Educatious Articlus", and today we take a look at their most Metal offering.

From Monster High we have the random but very Metal erasers for the lil ladies who need to correct the eventual errors they will encounter in mathematics.

Next are the Black Dice Pencil Sharpeners. There is a saying from a Simspons episode of yesterday that dices are evil and thus, why they are in this list. It also helps that they look like something that came out of a very Metal casino, if the players were the size of huge Scandinavian Trolls.

The obligatory dual holes of a pencil sharpener, aka the bungholes of death. A cliff note, from my days in elementary, this was always the case with 99.666% of pencil sharpeners I have come across, which is one of those elusive mysteries nobody seems keen in solving.

Next we have the semi-headliner of this post, and as aforementioned, sometimes Metalheads tend to customize their gear and this definitely helps, although that's not to stop a raging maniac from continuing the customization of their school supply. AC/DC's Back in Black notebook, for those days when you need to jot down what the teacher said in class and to help prepare for the upcoming exam and earn the grade that rings the "Hells Bells" of the principals office.

We have now come to the headliner of this post. Mind you, pencil boxes of yesterday were very simple and nothing to parade about. Every once in a while you might get a pencil box that had a Transformers or GI Joe on its cover, but nothing for Metal fans. This is where Vautlz comes into the foray and provides a pencil box that is worthy for those who need to put their pens/pencils/erasers/any other knick knack small enough to fit inside the box in question. Introducing Vaultz Pencil Box.

The details of this box is beyond amazing, it's like a guitar case (you know, the ones that can actually protect the axe from doom and destruction, or the airport luggage handlers) for pencils/pens.

The inside of the pencil box does not skip on the details and quality, and it is lockable, although that begs the questions what kind of goods a student from kindergarten to 5th grade will have in their possession to merit such a security feature?