Rock Sugar: Heavy Metal Band Shipwrecked for 20 Years, Recently Rescued and Ready to Rock

February 15, 2010

This is absolutely hysterical. I’ve been laughing non-stop, ever since I found out about Rock Sugar, a metal band that’s been shipwrecked on an island since 1989.

During that time, all they had to listen to was the 80’s pop CD collection of a 13 year old girl. They’ve been rescued, they’re back… and they’re ready to rock.

The full story about the band’s aquatic disaster is an absolute riot to read. Here’s an excerpt:

… the band credit their miraculous ability to make it to the shore alive only because of their firmly held belief that “sharks don’t eat metal”. Left to their own extremely questionable survival skills, Rock Sugar managed to salvage several items from the sunken yacht. In addition to their instruments, they retrieved a hot pink battery powered boom box covered with stickers of Hello Kitty, a crate of batteries, 158 cases of schnapps and numerous articles of teenage girls clothing, most of which the band admit to trying on and several pieces of which apparently fit and looked “pretty frickin’ awesome”. But things got worse when the horrified rockers discovered that the only music available for them to listen to was little Lisa Rosenberg’s very pop, very 13 year-old girl’s, very ’80’s CD collection.

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Fast forward twenty years when a tuna boat with a screwed up compass discovered a group of long haired castaways on a deserted island far out in the middle of the Pacific. Finally rescued and now violently thrown back into the real life of present day Los Angeles, and with absolutely no clue whatsoever of anything that’s happened, developed or changed in the world since 1989, Rock Sugar is back and ready to electrify audiences with their brand new, razor sharp, psychotically original sound.

Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: the lead singer, Jess Harnell, is a fairly accomplished voice actor. He’s the announcer to America’s Funniets Home Videos. He also was the voice talent who gave life to Wakko Warner from the Animaniacs.