Metal drummer doesn't find Satan "quite as cool" as he used to after COVID-fueled hell dream

Contracting COVID-19 already sounds terrifying on a physical level, but Will Carroll, drummer for thrash metal band Death Angel, has made it seem even metaphysically spooky, too, by telling the San Francisco Chronicle that his experience with the coronavirus involved a trip to hell.

After being diagnosed with the virus following Death Angel’s European tour with Exodus and Testament this past March, Carroll was placed on a ventilator and put into a medically-induced coma for almost two weeks. The Chronicle article includes Carroll’s description of his “dreams of visiting the afterlife” while in the coma, which include him seeing “himself leave his body and plummet down to hell, where Satan—a woman in his case—punished him for the deadly sin of sloth.” Carroll says he saw himself turned “into a Jabba The Hutt-like monster who vomited blood until he had a heart attack.”