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Ole Kirk and Steve Weatherholt set out to interview "The Scariest Band in the World"--Deadbolt. Shaking in their boots, they bravely delved deep into the subversive world that surrounds these gun-lovin' tiki culture maniacs from San Diego and returned (mostly) unscathed. ¶Earpollution's maven of metal, Sabrina Haines, recently caught up with Lost Disciple artists Pandemia from the Czech Repubic, and Burial from the puritanical paradise of Massachusetts. Out to spread the message of death metal with these Doubleheaders of Death, she turns in this interview.

Do you have those moments when anything feels possible, when the day seems charged with potential? Is it that first cup of coffee? First beer? Running up a mountain in the pre-dawn hours only to greet the sun at the top? Is it the crisp, antiseptic stars in a winter night? Or is it something less remarkable, like a message in your inbox, an e-mail from someone you've been waiting for? Is there a song that makes you feel that way? Or a track that is inextricably linked in memory to that moment? But enough with the rhetorical questions and on to some music to fill "The Hour of Possibility."