Metal Man Constable RigelFrom the NZ Herald...

Police are looking into the employment of a constable who is frontman of a thrash metal band which calls for the eradication of the "weak and inferior".

By day the heavily tattooed Rigel Walshe works as a court escort in the Counties Manukau police district.

In his private time he is lead singer and bass guitarist of the band Dawn of Azazel.

Funnily enough, my first thought on reading that was 'are Dawn of Azazel really a thrash metal band?' I popped over to nzmetal.co.nz to see that the denizens of those disussion boards had to say on the matter. Here's some of the choicer comments (from here and here)...

Bernie: yeh, they were calling it DEATH!!! thrash. I think I've been desensitized, as I didn't think of something's "deathness" as a measure of intensity.

sacarna: why dont they just say extreme metal it would be a lot easier.

DonavanKILLS3: Atleast hes not catholic.

E.S.C.: Or a jew.

Subcide: Does anyone here think there might be anyv alue in putting together a press release from NZmetal supporting Rigel and countering the situation?

Maleficent: hahah oh gawd you DON'T want the media reading the shit here hahahaha

Errr, yes.
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