Fuck no it ain't. This is a sign that rock still lives

Dead.

Rock is Dead! Long Live Metal!

Were they trying for irony?

Did they then immediately run all the Jews out of town?

I was about to say, this is REAL LIFE DETHKLOK STUFF, right here. Just make a Tesla coil about 30 times the size of the one in the video and voila.

Now if only someone would hook a Tesla coil up to a Theramin... OHHHH SHIIIIIT.

Unfortunately, that's the second-largest solid-state Tesla coil ever built, so no giant, arena-rock Tesla amps for now.

I did, and they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

dr_rock is from silent hill? are you still haunted by the memories of your dead wife?

Beat me to the Ride the Lightning reference. Good show, sir.

Someone already does mass-market them (kind of):
http://www.zeusaphone.com/zeusaphone.html

You can get much better sound quality (at much lower volumes) with the amplitude modulation method:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=830vpSi9JdY

Zeusaphone? FUCK YES.

Then its just a matter of being able to make it shoot FIRE.

I am looking forward to an arena-rock version of this thing, shooting lightningbolts 20M high, with pyrotechnics blazing like some Wrassler's entrance theme, and the non-stop scream of the crowd, so loud you go deaf for a week, and hear ringing for a month.

METAL!!!

The Ęsir Gods would be so proud.