Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you"re about to enter the School of Rock! Today"s lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school - they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia. A provocative study of the "thinking man"s" metal band; Maps out the connections between Aristotle, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Metallica, to demonstrate the band"s philosophical significance; Uses themes in Metallica"s work to illuminate topics such as freedom, truth, identity, existentialism, questions of life and death, metaphysics, epistemology, the mind-body problem, morality, justice, and what we owe one another; Draws on Metallica"s lyrical content, Lars Ulrich"s relationship with Napster, as well as the documentary Some Kind of Monster; ...