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Flirting with death metal

If you inform the guys in Every Time I Die that you can only die once, they'll say you’re full of shit and then tell you a story. A few months ago, on tour with Story of the Year, they flipped their van - equipment trailer and all - on a highway in Wyoming. "We were trying to hit this launch ramp that we set up in the middle of the highway and we hit it wrong," vocalist Keith Buckley tells me over the phone. "We couldn't stick the landing and that's when we flipped." The schizophrenic math-metal on Gutter Phenomenon (Ferret Music) might lead you to believe that this sort of preferred offstage activity isn’t all that implausible. But, c'mon, are you serious? "No, we just hit some ice. We were going around a bend and the trailer pulled the van off the road, and that's really what flipped us. At least the trailer stopped the van from cart wheeling all over the place. We were going pretty fast when we hit the ice, but it did stop us from rolling over and over. I guess the trailer was a blessing and a curse." And if that brush with death wasn’t scary enough, the real horror show started when police arrived. "They were assholes. One cop car showed up 45 minutes after the accident. And then the ambulance showed up a half hour after that, you know, just in case somebody was actually hurt. The cop got there and told us to go sit in the van. The van's upside-down and he's telling us to wait for him in there with broken glass on the floor . . . excuse me, on the ceiling. Great cops they have in Wyoming."

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