Brace yourself: This article contains spoilers about Season 5, Episode 8 of Game of Thrones.
The Army of the Dead just got more hardcore.
Brann Dailor, Bill Kelliher and Brent Hinds of the heavy metal band Mastodon appeared on Game of Thrones Sunday night as proud Wildlings, the proud people who live "free," north of The Wall and beyond the laws of the Iron Throne.
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Their scruffy appearance clearly made them shoo-ins for rough battle scenes. As is tradition in Westeros, their time as free folk did not last very long and their characters were brutally killed (and incidentally resurrected as White Walkers) by the end of the episode.
Of course, the band seemed perfectly happy to be amongst Jon Snow and the rest of the cast and crew, who filmed their scene in Northern Ireland. "It was an incredible experience to be on set," wrote the band on Facebook.
Mastodon recorded an original song, "White Walker," as part of the Catch the Throne Vol. 2 mixtape for the television series.
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