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After creating a pilot for a now-defunct media company, Olds and his co-creator/best friend Drew Kaufman successfully crowdfunded an entire series, with performers from across the metal and punk spectrum, as well as the odd outlier such as comedian Janeane Garofalo and rapper El-P, and subculture-specific comedy sketches live on stage.
At the start of 2020, the duo started to remotely produce web videos in which all-star guests – including gothic singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe and Gina Gleeson of spirited doom-metallers Baroness – collaborate on covers of metal classics and reimagine pop tracks. They started it, Olds says, “so we could finally play with our musician friends that hadn’t been able to make it to the live show”.
Gwar and 2M2LN perform Metal Elton John Christmas Parody
One of my favorite shows to binge during 2020 was the Metal-Themed Late Night Comedy Sketch show Two Minutes to Late Night. It s a very on the nose, satirical show that is full of musical inside jokes that most Metal Heads will love. Their house band, Mutoid Man, is incredibly entertaining and performs cover songs with the guests on the show. They have a full season of the show(that they ve done in years past) up on youtube.
With COVID hitting in March, the show decided to shift into something they could do remotely. Like record Metal Covers with guests who wouldn t be able to make it into the show otherwise! They have been doing them pretty consistently throughout the pandemic. They always seem to get impressive guest musicians to perform on the tracks. One of the covers went viral with over a million views. It was a cover of Rush s Anthem and featured Claudio Sanchez, Bill Kelliher, Les Claypool, Danny Carey, and Steve Brod