How often do you hear some self-obsessed, teeth-grindingly vain F-List sub-celebrity come out with shit like ‘Oh I totally have an addictive personality.’ and have to restrain yourself from throwing the remains of your kebab around the place and swearing at the television screen?

Yes, sweetheart, we’re all prone to addictions and obsessions of one form or another it doesn’t make you special, now fuck right off.  Bloggers, one might suggest for example, are more than just a little addicted to music.  Or so I would have thought, but it turns out this is woefully over-estimating our love for all things musical.  Because yesterday The Register reported on a story about a chap from Sweden who has actually been awarded disability benefit and given special permission to play loud music at work due to being diagnosed with an addiction to heavy metal.

Wow.  Roger Tullgren I bow to your superior levels of fetishistic infatuation.  I am not a fan, I am a mere neophyte – you, Roger Tullgren, are a fan!

In fact, he may be my new hero – employer forced to let him listen to whatever he wants, money and time off to go to gigs, legally enshrined protection for his music obsession – the man’s a legend!

Yukon – Sweden  Look these guys up here.  They’re a bit half-arsed, but really really good.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Heavy Metal
Thomas Truax -  Audio Addiction
Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer (Live)
Counting Crows – Mercury (Live on VH1 Storytellers)