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If you were to tell any random music fan on the street that a tour with the four bands on the "Adult Swim Presents" would be happening, they would say "Oh sure, fuck it.

Hailed as one of the most brutal and face-melting shows of the year, the Adult Swim tour featuring metal bands Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire may sound a little extreme to the uninitiated.

There are a ton of combinations that seem awkward when put together: peanut butter and tuna fish; chocolate and scrambled eggs; Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson.

With High on Fire, Converge, Mastodon, and Dethklok Pompano Beach Amphitheater Sunday, November 8, 2009 Better Than: Getting home in time for Robot Chicken .

Converge, with High on Fire, Dethklok, and Mastodon. 6:30 p.m. Sunday, November 8, at Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, 1806 NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach.

SLAYER , MEGADETH , TESTAMENT and HIGH ON FIRE are rumored to be teaming up for a U.S. tour starting in February 2010.

Two metal bands with strong Atlanta connections come to town for this co-headlining tour of musical brutality.

HIGH ON FIRE: Tentative Album Title Revealed; Performance Footage Of New Song Available - Nov.

Converge's Jacob Bannon leads his band of brothers. Details: Converge: With High on Fire, Dethklok, and Mastodon.

At Tuesday's stunning show at a packed-to-the-rafters House of Blues - the first of a two-night stand - Dethlok ringmaster Brendon Small and his metal compatriots played in the darkness, the better to provide the frantic soundtrack to the videos of the cartoon band that were shown on a screen behind them.

The Witch Is Back The first time "Mosh" heard from - or of - Skeletonwitch was summer 2007.

Phantom Orchard @ the Music Gallery, Oct. 22 The laptop and harp duo of Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins didn't waste any time tweaking the crowd's sonic sensibilities.

Although he plays bass in Lightning Bolt , Brian Gibson is the DRUMMER for Megasus .

PODCAST: Dethklok foe Malcolm McDowell speaks [MP3] 0 Malcolm McDowell at Rock & Shock 2009 Starting tomorrow, metal worshipers will be descending on the House of Blues for two nights of "mind-throttling chasm-fording riff salad" with High on Fire , Mastodon , and hometown-pride-instilling acts Converge , legendary hardcore heavies from Salem, MA ...

If you were standing outdoors in the neighborhood of Washington Avenue and Lark Street on Sunday night you might have thought, judging from the din, that it was the dawn of the Apocalypse.

Purple Hill Together, Jordan Bruce, Brent Hough and Owen Marchildon make up Purple Hill, a jangle-friendly three-piece that might be Toronto's answer to The Feelies.

A curious bill of artists mixing an odd hodgepodge of metal styles, a fictional band brought to life, and a psychedelic astral journey set to prog-metal made for an astounding, exhausting night of music.

Converge's torment can floor you. Since bursting out of the hardcore scene in the early '90s, the Bay State-bred quartet has used relentless speed and volume to craft a jarring, dystopian dynamic.

Is synergy the new trend in metal? Arguable kings of the genre, Mastodon, have joined with Dethklok -- the real-life version of the animated band from the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse -- as co-headliners on a 34-city tour sponsored by the offbeat TV network.

Strange occurrences throughout the metro last night. A baby born deaf heard her mother's voice for the first time.