Dallas Cowboys form a (very) heavy metal band

Three offensive linemen for the Dallas Cowboys have had a mildly entertaining offseason. Marc Colombo, Leonard Davis and Cory Procter, along with non-football-playing guitarist Justin Chapman, have created the heavy metal band Free Reign. That’s 1,200 pounds of sound, for those counting.

Don’t laugh. They already have a record deal.

Marc Colombo lowers his bald head and leans his sweaty, 6-foot-8, 318-pound frame toward the microphone, growling to the crowd that the next song will “rip your face off.”

The sometimes scary stage presence of the heavily tattooed guitarist and singer, who is one of three Dallas Cowboys offensive linemen in the heavy metal band Free Reign, is a thing of beauty for the head of the recording company that just signed them.

“They’re big guys – big, ugly, mean guys,” said John Howarth, owner and CEO of the Australian company Riot Entertainment. “You see the press photos and they look intimidating, and thats the market we want to push into.”

via NFL players put the heavy in metal – washingtonpost.com.

Here’s a video. Hint: Expect lots of sweat and screaming. I’ll let the heavy metal fans among us rate the band. Me? I think they shouldn’t quit their day job.