Iced Earth, straight on
Sensational interview of Iced Earth's band leader Jon Schaffer (via Andrew Sullivan),

BW&BK: "Do you think 9/11 will be viewed as the first event in the US empire's decline and fall?"

JS: "No. This is not an empire, first of all. If the United States was an empire, your country would be our 51st state."

A man after my own heart (even with the bad language). I'll be listening to Iced Earth now.