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Heavy Metal Bowling vs Bompas & Parr’s Metal BBQ

21st October 2013 Print
Heavy Metal Bowling vs Bompas & Parr’s Metal BBQ

Few can match the thrill when the screaming guitars, thunderous bass drums and the explosive pyrotechnics of a heavy metal concert collides with bowling and barbeque. This November, the team who brought you Heavy Metal Bowling, is teaming up with Bompas & Parr’s Metal BBQ for a night of growling music, thundering ten-pin and food so hairy and muscular you can really gorge on it.

Visit Rowans Ten Pin Bowl on Wendesday, 20th November to crush some pins, smash some beers and feast on barbeque smoked over the burning drumsticks of your metal heroes. Heavy Metal Bowling in collaboration with Bompas & Parr’s Metal BBQ strikes a power chord within, uniting all through the bond of powerful music, slamming ten-pin and smoked-meat Valhalla.

Bowling is Metal

Bowling as a sport is totally rock and roll and dates back to the Egyptians themselves. Anthropologist Sir Flinders Petrie and his team of archeologists uncovered the first-known evidence of bowling equipment when exploring an ancient tomb dating back to 3200 BC. By the mid-1300’s AD it was popularly played across England, but bowling’s darker associations with gambling and riotous drunkenness led to a nationwide ban. Edward III outlawed the sport to encourage the peasants to focus on their archery skills. It came back into vogue in the Sixteenth Century when gluttonous voluptuary Henry VIII got into the sport and has been enjoyed ever since. Today the sport has an army of fans, played in ninety countries by over one hundred million people. Bowling’s outlaw credentials are further supported by the rumour that the tenth pin was added to get around a law banning nine-pin in Connecticut – giving rise to the modern game.

Feast on the smoke of legends

Metal drummers go through a lot of drumsticks. They are thrown to baying crowds, sold as tour mementos and given to crews as rewards for service. This means it’s possible to buy the drumsticks of legendary drummers like Lars Ulrich, Tommy Lee, Dave Lombardo, Nico McBrain, John Dolmayan or Jimmy The Rev Sullivan on eBay for a small consideration.

For the BBQ these will be chopped down, fully prepared and use to smoke the meat and vegan platters served. With the drumsticks being made of hickory, Canadian maple and golden oak the flavours will be intense, heighted by the roaring soundscape and knowledge that you may be consuming the toasted sweat of a metal god.  Choke down the smoked meats right through the darkest night of the year.

There’s more….

The evening will also feature a condiment castle, strippers performing the sensually choreographed Ten Pin Berserker: balls blessed in blood, a lively dance routine and ritual to invoke the gods of bowling, pyrotechnics, skull cup trophy for the best hair whips and playlist featuring Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Elder, The Sword, Slayer, Sleep, Metallica. The highest scoring bowler of the evening will win the same model of sword used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian. The full Metal BBQ menu and feature drummers’ sticks, will be revealed on the 31st October.  

Mark Skulls of Heavy Metal Bowling comments:

“Heavy Metal Bowling is about total pin devastation. Drop a ball on the lane with a soundtrack of Slayer and watch the impending doom of the pins as your ball curves into the pocket. There's no better accompaniment to the sound of crushing pins than heavy riffs and cold beer. Heavy Metal Bowling at war with pins.”

Bobby Whittaker of Heavy Metal Bowling adds: “We’ll be fingering holes and caressing balls from 7:00pm. Pop down!”

Harry Parr of Bompas & Parr states: “With the Metal BBQ we are going for total maximal intensity of flavour. Unctuous meats and triumphant vegan kebabs are smoked with the burning hickory drumsticks of metal legends. Taste the glory, savour the sweat.”

Bowling, metal and barbecue together forever!
Rowan’s website: rowans.co.uk 
facebook.com/pages/Heavy-Metal-Bowling/543571869000575
Visit bompasandparr.com for further details of the event.

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Heavy Metal Bowling vs Bompas & Parr’s Metal BBQ