When Nature Gets Heavy Metal
b'Search a major online music platform for \\u201cnature\\u201d and you get a lot of stuff designed to help you relax. Recordings of chirping rainforest creatures, gently tumbling waves, a pulsing didgeridoo\\u2014it\\u2019s what you expect to hear during a massage treatment. The reality, of course, is that nature is often far from tranquil. It can be barbaric, dissonant, and downright metal. In that spirit, this week\\u2019s episode presents two tales that pay homage to nature\\u2019s thrasher tendencies. The first involves a threatening predator that was fought off with Metallica. After that, we\\u2019ll hear from a professional hard rocker who attempted to be the hero of a shipwrecked crew, and shared his experience at a live storytelling event hosted by The Moth.'