This is a closeup timelapse video of a praying mantis eating a fly. Please note I used a relatively tame screencap for the photo above but that mantis doesn’t always have the decency to cover it’s face while eating, and it digs into that fly like I would an ice

Because dream it and (with enough cans and a recycling center paying 5¢ apiece) you can achieve it, this is a video of luthier Burl of Burls Art crafting an all aluminum electric guitar after melting some 38-pounds of aluminum cans (over 1,000) to cast the neck and body. My

This is a video of guitarist Andre Antunes (previously: adding heavy metal to a hog calling competition — also, great last name for a musician) providing a little heavy metal accompaniment to Gordon Ramsey absolutely laying into people on Hell’s Kitchen. That, uh, that seems like a really abusive work

This is a video from musician and Youtuber Andrea Boma Boccarusso providing a history of metal music, from the 1950’s to present. His lesson plan includes “a medley of metal examples accompanied by descriptions, artists, and albums that typified each era.” Neato. Of course if you don’t have time to

Because this is the internet and the internet never stops, well, internetting, this is a video of musician André Antunes adding some heavy metal accompaniment to hog calling competitions at the Illinois and Iowa State Fairs. André really does a fantastic job, which is even more impressive when you consider

Because the internet can occasionally produce just what you were looking for provided you don’t know what that thing was and don’t wander down the wrong alley trying to take a shortcut *desperately trying to close relentless boner pill pop-up* this a short video from artist LeopARTnik of two black-capped

These are several shots and a video of the Filip Skelecaster electric guitar that heavy metal rocker Prince Midnight constructed using his uncle Filip’s skeleton. Filip died in a car accident over twenty years ago, and had previously requested his skeleton be donated to a nearby university, where it educated

This is a compilation video of sign language interpreters really bringing the sign of the horns while interpreting at heavy metal concerts. I could really FEEL those lyrics through their expression and, honestly, I’d be just as tempted to buy some merch from their table as the actual band’s. Badass,