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Heavy Metal Me and fades out just at the end of the loud drone (thus removing the acoustic guitar coda of CD2); the video consists solely of shots from what appear to be underneath layers of moving webbing. Lastly, there are live versions of the songs "feedbacker", recorded 2003-11-1 at Shinjuku Liquid Room, and "flood", recorded 2001-5-3 at Koenji 20,000v. "staff credit" contains acoustic guitar plucks while the credits roll. The DVD has no "play all" option and each track must be selected individually from the main menu. Heavy Metal Me heavy metal me is a DVD release by Japanese band Boris. It