Ryan Adams needs another distracting side project like we need to run another amusing item about Ryan adams doing crazy shit when he’s loaded. But some things cannot be helped. And so we relate to you that during a moment of alcohol-fueled inspiration on the Washington, D.C., stop of his U.S. tour in support of Rock N’ Roll, the troubadour king of ADD formed a spontaneous metal band with support act the Stills, christened it Whorenet, and proceeded to open for… Ryan Adams and the Stills.

“I went backstage, and got bored,” Adams tells us. “I had been listening to Accept or some fucking metal shit, and I said to the guys, ‘Man, we should totally fucking start a metal band right now!” Either equally inspired or just very, very polite, the Stills agreed, and Whorenet began screaming for vengeance. “We wrote three songs in ten minutes,” Adams says, chuckling. “I wrote the titles and riffs, then went and had a sandwich. By the time I’d finished, they had the riffs down.”

Whorenet donned black hoodies to preserve their anonymity (and perhaps beef up their scrawny, hipster, bodies into something more Slayer-like). Adams sang and drummed Don Henley/Phil Collins-style on readymade epics like “Car Crashin’.” “Season of the Bitch,” and our personal fave, “Beyond the Land of the Dead Ghost Monsters.”

“I don’t know whether people in metal bands know they’re actually funny,” Adams says. “Like the Darkness?” we asked. Turns out Adams is a big fan. “That song, ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’? Holy macaroni!”

For the record, we think the Darkness knows they’re being funny. We also think the phrase “Holy Macaroni!” is due for a major comeback.

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