Dec 21, 2006 3:41 AM

Terrorism's Newest Threat: Defunct Thrash Metal Bands

Heavy metal and white powder: the brie and baguette of the rock world. But when garbage man Marty Solberg discovered a mysterious white powder surrounding a dumpster graffitied with the word “Anthrax” he didn’t make the obvious connection: that the members of one of thrash metal’s premiere acts had thrown an impromptu angel dust party […]

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