The video that you can check out above features Scallon and a couple overall-clad buddies headbanging in a rural setting while playing banjo and upright bass and sporting spiffy straw hats. There are ...

The theme song for the Halloween franchise is almost as iconic as Michael Myers himself. That simple yet sinister tune makes me want to curl up on the couch and watch something scary. There are no ...

The same way I eventually got bored of Andy Rehfeldt’s Disneyfied versions of metal songs and metallicized versions of Disney songs, I am now over Rob Scallon’s banjo covers. It’s not that they’re bad ...

As we’ve documented previously, people are going nuts making covers of Daft Punk’s inescapable “Get Lucky.” And now we can add a bonafide banjo cover to the this, thanks to a guy named Charles Butler.

Sporting overalls, a straw hat, a blonde wig and a fake brown beard, Scallon solemnly strums away on his banjo, a far cry from Metallica, starting off the song, but as he jumps off his fence post and ...

We here at the MS mansion love us some Rob Scallon — in fact, we love him so much we even featured him as one of the top 25 most influential people in metal. So it should come as no surprise that ...

Back in 1982, NBC introduced viewers to “a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.” Knight Rider transformed David Hasselhoff into a celebrity for his role as Michael ...

YouTuber Rob Scallon is back at it again with another one of his extreme metal covers. This time, he covers Slayer’s “Angel Of Death” on a banjo—and it’s insane. The solos will melt your face. This ...

In preparation for becoming the Joker for “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger created a diary. Marked “Joker” on the front, it contains images from “A Clockwork Orange” and thoughts about scenes from the ...

Still trying to start the work week? Here’s a little metal classic to get you going, but it’s all banjos, so it won’t shock you into a headache. Banjo Guy Ollie put together a fantastic arrangement of ...

Okay, so, just hear us out. This banjo cover of “The Final Countdown” — that irritatingly catchy ’80s jam — is actually lovely. Really, really lovely. The A.V. Club invited banjo legend Béla Fleck and ...