metal meets cello

so this morning i go to "crooks and liars" http://www.crooksandliars.com/ political blog to catch up on the news and i noticed that for the music selection they have posted videos of Apocalypitca: a quartet of men playing metalica songs on their cellos. the first one is slow and kind of pretty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSMXMv0noY4&eurl=


but the second one is where they let it all hang out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rej7o4x7BUg&search=Apocalypitca

i especially like the crowd surfing and the head banging from the audience members. those european kids are soooo POSTMODERN!
wow, i wasn't into metal when i was young...i find it quite interesting that metalica has given themselves a make over...cutting their hair, dressing up all gq style but still playing the same brash and edgy music that they always have. but these cellists seem to complicate this a bit...their hair is long (except for the one guy) and they look like what metal is supposed to look like (culturally speaking of course) while they play metal music in a refined, classical style. it's odd, these guys look the way metalica sounds like but play metal music the way that the metalica group members look like (aesthetically, that is). i think this is what we would call mixing up the signifier and the signified...now if only the twain should meet...or should they?