Left home alone after being grounded for mouthing off to Miss Cheerilee, Button Mash goes snooping through his Dad's closet. He finds a box of relics from his Dad's past, including a few vinyl records from some odd-sounding bands that turn out to be just the thing to incite a bit of preteen rebellion.
Trigger Warning: very little plot, lack of coherency, and multiple heavy metal horse puns. Anyone not familiar with old-school thrash metal should slap themselves. Hard.
Thanks to Seether00 for his help with edits, themaskedferret for help with the motivation, and Captain Unstoppable for being awesome.
Covert art belongs to Flutterthrash on Deviant Art.
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Metal to the extreme! Great story, and I loved all the metal pony names! Great work brother!
Metalhead!
Well done, sir. Very well done indeed. \m/
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Quick, Button! Save yourself!
^^vv<><>BA Start
Ah, this was cute.
Those ponified names are groan-worthy, though.
GOD DAMNIT JAKE!
You... You actually wrote?! Jake, I... I think I'm gonna cry, I'm so happy!
This is my new headcanon. No one can ruin this for me.
I love this. Button becoming a metal head is a great idea. Now my head cannon will be
Metallica good choice
The best one of all the Button fics today.
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~Skeeter The Lurker
Good to see you writing again.
HEY JAKE! STICK THIS IN YOUR EAR PLACES!
Really? St. Anger? I realize that fuel was the only decent song off of that album, but still, why St. Anger?
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Fuel was from Reload.
5215951 Huh. I could've sworn it was from St. Anger. Oh well, still, lots of other songs that are far better than Fuel, on that album even. [but, it is the first song on the album, so it did make sense.]
Strictly speaking, he's probably right.
....pfft.....
Fuckin' A!
I thought this would be more obscure than it actually was. I forgot what "thrash metal" was going in, but it turns out it's the acclaimed mainstream stuff from the '80s, I guess.
Those puns... Those puns!
His mum likes pop and his dad likes metal?
Those two can mashup together surprisingly well.
(Marvin Gaye sounds positively sinister now)
This one also works disturbingly well too.
"Flash of the Horseshoe" and "Back in the Stable" happen to be two of my favourites.
oh
OH
GUESS WHAT
I JUST READ AND REVIEWED 'YOUR STORY'
I DON'T HAVE TO READ THE OTHER ONE NOW
SUCK IT :V
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Oh, cool! Man, it is dusty as shit in here...
Ahh...
Ahhhhh...
Ahhhhh—Cop-out!
*sniff* Excuse me.
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Well, I'll read it eventually, sure, but I've now fulfilled my oath. :V
I think You might be cOrrect, bUddy. Seeing as you havE Acutally read this fic, I'm sure I will greatly Benefit from your Insight inTo my writing proCess. How can I ever thank you enough?
No Ozzy Osbourne?
I'm disappointed.
Still, that didn't stop me from listening to every single song as they came up in the story, even the Megadeth one which I'm just sorta "meh" over. Not much else to say other than Fucking Metal!
Did... did you just ponify the place in which over a million innocent people were slaughtered like cattle?
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Eh, full disclosure... I'm not the biggest fan of Ozzy's solo stuff. Don't get me wrong, Blizzard and Diaries were friggin awesome, but after that, he became what I call a "Greatest Hits band." Just buy the greatest hits CD, and that's all the songs I really dig.
And yes, I guess I did ponify a concentration camp. I figured you would like that, ya crazy bastard.
Although, now you'll just have to wonder when in Equestria's history there was an attempted genocide...
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Oh god now I need to know...
*One brief google search later.*
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Damn you Army Guy and your curiosity inciting fanfics! Damn you I say!
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Finally read this... What lie fouls mine eyes! A tale of Buttons not porking his mother crosseyed! what manner of blasphemy is this! HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THAT MOTHER AND SON HAVE A RELATIONSHIP THAT DOES NOT END IN CLOP!
In short... HERESY!
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A long ass fuckin' time ago in a town called Ponyville . . . There lived a brave young colt who only sought a thrill . . . He rifled through his parent's shit and found something quite swell . . . But stood the was an old bitch who went by Weathermane . . .
Can't believe I missed this one! Amazing and funny!
Also.........Button Atari Mash.............
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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Gr8 story m8! What im suprised at is that you didn't add some crossover thrash into the mix with bands like Suicidal Tendencies and D.R.I., Needless to say this was an amazing story.
"Button Atari Mash"...
I'm stealing that...just try to stop me...BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
I actually use "Elaina" for Button's mom, because that's what the animators use in describing her. They call Buttons dad "Monster", but I'm kinda leaning your way. And just as an aside, Buttons has an interesting older brother named "Gibson", who has a garage band.
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Well, there was only so much room. If I had my way... and if I wasn't lazy as fuck, it would have been nothing but metal horse puns. Equicidal Tedencies, Judas Trots, Cannibal Horse, Carts Enemy...
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I used 8-Bit as a nod to the comics. In the Neigh Anything arc, 8-Bit was one of Shining Armor's D&D buddies. And Love Tap was used because MILF wasn't appropriate for some reason...
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No problems here, Sarge. And you should have thrown more of the metal horse puns in, in my opinion...
I kinda hit a nerve with my latest. Lots of activity on it. And I've had to answer lots of questions like that, myself.
Dave Cerame
5639860 everyone must be baked buttery brown for a laugh like that
Neat.
Silly Love Taps! NOTHING CAN KILL THE METAL.
shoulda went with ride the lightning, totally metallicas best album
I laughed so hard, my family stared at me as if I were mad.
6606012 Truth.
Anyone who thinks Metal all screaming emo sh
t should punch themselves. In the face. 1,000 times. While on fire. In Antarctica. Then sent to the Moon. Then blown up. Then eaten.
Button's middle name is Atari. Headcanon accepted.
Best. Button. Story. EVER!!!!!
Saw thrash metal, was hooked!
Listening to Devil Driver while reading
6899354 I have a friend that I actually ended up hitting cos he kept calling metal screamo, needless to say we ain't friends anymore xD
7184383 You fight the urge to choke them.
7184570 I know what u mean xD
7186063 Hold your head up high!
Raise your fist up in the air!
Play Metal
LOUDER THAN HELL!!!
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They can't stop us, let 'em try,
FOR HEAVY METAL WE WILL DIE!!!