“…I attended The Metalist Festival in Palmakhim, an all-day heavy metal festival featuring Israel’s top metal acts and a couple of notable imports including Destruction and Megadeth, who were to perform in Israel for the first time in nine years, much to the nation’s desperate anticipation. The event was held in a makeshift venue right on the beach of the Mediterranean with five-thousand Israeli kids dressed in black from head-to-toe, banging their heads to the murderous rhythms of international thrash, as Tel Aviv twinkled in the background.”

Read the whole story here, and it’s a story, folks. Only in Israel.

My favorite part was when the kids were giving it to the Christian missionary:

“The kids were totally fucking with him, making smart alleck remarks like, “Jesus loves me? Well Moses loves you! You know Eliyahu HaNavi? He loves you too!” Mind you these were not religious kids in the slightest sense. These were tattooed, pierced, headbanging metalheads. And fa real, they gave him whatfor. We were beaming with pride.”