Metallica just launched the world’s first-ever guitar-shaped ice cream bar

James Hetfield of American heavy metal band Metallica, live on stage at Sonisphere Festival, August 2, 2009.
Trapped under ice cream: image thankfully not to scale. (Image credit: Kevin Nixon/Future / Enlightened)

Today in ‘opening sentences we never thought we’d write’, Metallica have launched the world’s first guitar-shaped ice cream bar.

The ice cream’s, erm, body shape is based on Hetfield’s ESP Truckster – note the pointed Florentine cutaway – and even features a fretboard-adorned stick.

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Michael Astley-Brown
Editor-in-Chief, GuitarWorld.com

Mike is Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com, in addition to being an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and over a decade's experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock under the nom de plume Maebe.