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This is undoubtedly a hoax. A google search turns up no "Artaud Productions," and the only result about "Charnal House" as a rock band shows up on this bogus site. This kind of nonsense is not beneficial to the Bush campaign, since it is readily shown to be a hoax. I hope that FR doesn't spread these false stories that hurt only the GOP.

This may be a Hoax, but there is a band called Charnal House and you can find discussions about them in "Groups" when you do a Google search there.

There is NO indications, anywhere, that Dean would welcome this kind of support...which I doubt he would. ANYONE can say they are doing something in support of ANYONE's political campaign, that doesn't mean much until that campaign acknowledges it and says welcome.

So as far as a Hoax goes, it may be actually true, but the inference drawn -- that this means anything to/about Dean -- is Bogus and (in effect) a hoax.

"This may be a Hoax, but there is a band called Charnal House and you can find discussions about them in "Groups" when you do a Google search there."

I did do that search. I turned up a few messages about a Charnal House music label, but none about any band named Charnal House.

Apparently such band does not exist, since metal bands have active discussions going all the time.

I also could not find any reference to Artaud Productions, purportedly the source link for this article. Clicking on the link takes to you to Pipeline. There was a link to the original story there, but it is now broken.

This is a pure hoax. In the first place, no political candidate would link its campaign to such a musical group. In the second place, I've not seen any "metal" band endorsing anyone, Dem or GOP. It's not in their nature, you see.

My concern is that this story will get wide circulation in email forwarding, all leading back to FR as the source of the story. This harms FR, in my opinion.

Hoaxes, posted without some indication that they are hoaxes, are a poor idea, again in my opinion.