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CLOSE CALL !— Heavy Metal Band Almost Released Album Containing No Songs With “of” in Their Title
Heavy Metal Satire
Tampa, FL — Slam death metal upstarts Esophagogastroduodenoscopy prevented a fatal faux pas on their part upon receiving mock-ups of their new album layout: they noticed none of the ten tracks included the word “of” in their title!
If they didn’t catch this absentminded mistake and released the tracklist as it was, they would’ve been shunned by the entire metal community. Elitists of the genre would’ve been rendered severely uncomfortable by such an unprecedented event.
Metal snobs need to receive at least one song in a full-length with “of” or else they’d exile the band into “Throes of Rejection”. They’d deem the band a “Liege of Inveracity”.
Perhaps Esophagogastroduodenoscopy was “Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead” during the writing process. Thankfully, they caught their mistake and then chose their song, “Rectum Flogger”, to be changed. They instructed the album artist to edit the name to “Flogger of Rectums” — phew, close one.
The quota was now met.
Their “Lack of Comprehension” is forgivable this time, but a lot of blame can also be put on their record label, Reason Of Mist, their “Master of Puppets” or “Serpents of…
