> Music’s extreme metal community has also found common ground with
> Heemeyer, according to Pat Jarrett, a 41-year-old bass player for the
> Virginia sludge metal band named — wait for it — Heemeyer.
>
> While Jarrett says he and his bandmates lean to the left on the political
> spectrum, they understand the alienation and frustration that fueled
> Heemeyer’s actions 20 years ago.
>
> “Marv Heemeyer is a kind of folk hero in the extreme metal community,”
> Jarrett said. “Certainly, his rampage was unreasonable, but he was pushed
> to the point of pushing back. And there’s catharsis in that.
>
> “I understand that feeling of wanting to hole up in a garage and build
> something I could bulldoze with.”
>
> A Swiss thrash metal band named Xonor has a song called “Killdozer,” as
> does Canadian doom metal band Dopethrone. North Carolina metal band Lords
> and Liars released its own “Killdozer” track.
>
> “Focused. Deliberate,” the lyrics go in Lords and Liars’ version.
> “Nothing will stop him but his equipment. Rage born. Revenge machine.
> He’s going down a way that’s been never seen.”
>
> “Marv is part of the lore of heavy metal,” Heemeyer’s Jarrett said.
Since I’m not a metalhead, I wasn’t aware of the “sludge” variant.
