With heavy metal fans, video games and violent movies once again under attack by the media and U.S. officials, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a traveling metal band were recently the victim of some profiling. That group, Torn The Fuck Apart, found themselves questioned recently by several police after being spotted sitting in their van at a Forest Park, IL Walmart parking lot.

According to the band, the police told them they had received multiple calls about the group looking like “suspicious characters”, leading the cops to come and question them. Fortunately, the incident was defused quickly upon a few questions with the police, with the officers even taking part in some arrest pranks at the expense of the band’s drummer, who was inside the store picking up some supplies.

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Speaking with MetalSucks, the band’s vocalist/guitarist Michael Langner stated of the incident: