There are taxi rides, and then there is the taxi ride that city musician Arijit Datta took on Wednesday night. Datta was travelling from Kandivli to Andheri when he got stuck in traffic on the Western Express Highway. So, to while time away, he took out his phone and pressed play on an album, without his earphones on. And two bars into the first song, his driver turned to him and said, "Aap Metallica sun rahe ho?"

Heavy lessons
What followed was a conversation that went viral on social media after Datta posted it on his Facebook timeline. In it, Dipesh Rasiklal Mistry, the driver, gives his customer a schooling on metal music, waxing eloquent on bands as niche as Sacred Reich and Morbid Angels, leaving Datta feeling almost sheepish about his lack of knowledge in comparison. mid-day caught up with Mistry, and it turns out that the seeds of his interest in metal music were sown when he was aged around 15.