Love Skulls, Crossbones and Hearts Boxer Shorts

Valentines Day. Not exactly the most Metal holiday, unless you count the breakups that occurs on this holiday due to any number of reasons. While this holiday only brings heartbreak to the legions, every once in a while, it brings forth a Metallic touch (I am not talking about Glam Metal, although it's not that far away considering their subject matter).

Channel 13 is proud to announce Valentines Day most Metal offerings, and today we begin this series of posts with boxer shorts that add a touch of Metal to love, or love to Metal, or vice versa.

Introducing Walgreens Love Skulls, Crossbones and Hearts Boxer Shorts.

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Inkology Rock Star Guitar Pen

Pens. Since the dawn of time (more like when we all started 4th grade) have been a educational utensil that we needed to do our homework (or graffiti notebook/bathroom walls/desks/etc.). They have also allowed Metalheads to write lyrics (or notes to pass along to fellow headbangers (at least back in the 80's/90's, these days it is the smartphones that reigns supreme on the communication front)).

While pens are not the most Metal creation in the world (probably more under-appreciated than we allow), they have contributed to our musics lyrical creativity (more like making it happen).

It's one thing to doodle and write with a regular pen, but what if you had a pen that actually had the razors edge of METAL?

Intoducing Inkology's Rock Star Guitar Pen.

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Bicycle Harley-Davidson Playing Cards

Bikers. One of the 2 subcultures that contributed to our societies being (the other being hippies). How many Metal songs/albums/musicians/etc. are inspired (and even ridden) by the Iron Horse? Too many to count.

While there are many manufacturers of the creatures that dwell in the Steel Stables, only one has been synonymous with the aforementioned subculture that staked its claim in this planet called Earth. Harley-Davidson.

While the story of Harley-Davidson can be connected to Metalheads, another element of the bikers ancient past (aka cowboys) has been gaining popularity in the world of the Iron-clad warriors. Poker.

What is needed to play poker? Cards. And while playing cards are Metal on their own merit, every once in a while a deck of cards comes along that pushes it to Volume "11".

Introducing Bicycles Harley-Davidson Playing Cards.

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Beavis and Butt-head Cornholio Shirt

Beavis and Butt-head. The 2 wise men of Heavy Metal. While both are needed to make the magic known as "Mtv's only good offering", sometimes they needed to be split in order for each one to hold his own weight in the challenges they faced during their misadventures.
To pick which one was better suited to fly solo would be picking apples and oranges, but if one had to be chose, it would have to be Beavis. Beavis was the slightly dumber one of the two, but while his stupidity was a weakness, his luck and charm as the counterweight to the disadvantage.

It also helped Beavis when his "Mr. Hyde" surfaced (with the encouragement of sugar based food and beverages), hence adding a second man to his solo routine.

To honor his deep end alter-ego, Target offers the Corholio T-shirt.

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Tarnished Iron: Dr. Tom ter Bogt

Science. A subject that Metalheads excel without limitations. Think about it for a minute. Our form of music is "Metal", and within its borders are many different forms of "Metal" that exist (like the Periodic Tables "Metallic" elements).

While we can scientifically discern about what is Metal and what is not "Metal", today we will look at a different discipline of science that also has it's fingerprints in our culture (or our fingerprints in its laboratories), Pediatrics (the medicine field of medical care for infants, children and adolescents).

Some days ago, a cultural psychologist decided to go against the element known as Ferrum (aka "Iron", aka what Metal music is made from) by publishing a study about Heavy Metal causing teenage delinquency.

Tarnished Iron presents Dr. Tom ter Bogt.

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