Something that is not very heavy metal is fine coffee. Delicately ground and roasted coffee, straight from the greatest plantations in the world.
Put another way, when we hear the name Megadeth, espresso is not the first word to come to mind.
Yet Megadeth's own Dave Mustaine does not seem to share our conviction. Mustaine believes metal-heads love coffee. So much so, in fact, that he's started a business to sell it to them.
For just $19.99 (£10) a month subscribers to Dave Mustaine's Monthly Coffee Crew, receive specialty brews personally selected by Megadeth's frontman. He needs good coffee, he explains, because "I like pushing life to the red-line, like a[n] SR-71 Blackbird [jet plane]."
The current pick is a "Peruvian blend", in either normal or dark roast. "This is my favourite coffee SO FAR," Mustaine explains, "until I can decide on which coffee to bring you next! This PERUVIAN coffee was so pleasing to taste and had the right boost I needed in the morning for me to prepare for another day of shredding!"
Since even heavy metal guitarists need to sleep soundly at night, the former Metallica member has also endorsed a decaf line. "Now, when I am still working late at night in the studio and craving some java, this is what I have bubbling in the cauldron." A cauldron! That's more like it! Because a Megadeth member won't settle for a measly French press!
And while some would assume that the lead singer of Megadeth might be in favour of, say, mega death, rest assured: Dave Mustaine loves the planet. All his coffees are certified fair trade and organic.
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