Thanks to a recent court ruling, a lucky couple from Kungälv, Sweden is free to name its newborn baby girl…um, Metallica.
As originally reported on Blabbermouth and then expanded upon by Stereogum, the girl’s parents checked twice with Swedish tax agency Skatteverket to make sure the name was okay, and they were given the go-ahead both times because, believe it or not, there was already a girl in Sweden named Mettalica.
Only when the couple officially filed the name did Skatteverket object, suddenly insisting that the name was inappropriate because of its hard-rocking implications. After her parents won an appeal with the district court, the little girl’s unusual name was declared 100 percent legal and, perhaps more importantly, 100 percent safe for both her and anyone she comes in contact with. Oh, Sweden.
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