It’s February, and curling fans know that February and March are the best months of the year—it’s prime curling season, both for playing and for watching. The Brier starts at the beginning of March (and I’ll be in Hamilton to see the opening!), and the national women’s championship starts in mid-February—always a fantastic way to spend lazy reading week afternoons. This year, the Scott Tournament of Hearts is changing its name to the rather unfortunate Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Scotties? Really?), but it’ll still provide all the fantastic women’s curling action we’ve come to expect from Canada’s best, and it’s still got “Hearts” in the name. That means “Hearts On Fire” will still work as the unofficial theme song for the best thing to ever hit Lethbridge, Alberta.

What does a heavy metal song that has “Hearts” in the name have to do with curling, you ask? Oh, nothing at all. Except this.

Yes, that’s the Swedish women’s curling team, aka the gold medal winners at the 2006 Turin Olympics. The band re-released the song before the Olympics to provide support for the team, and obviously it was the power of rock that put Anette Norberg and crew over the top. This isn’t the original video, of course; the video released in 2002 has CG fire and a scorched earth and a flaming book and stuff, but clearly this video is way more hardcore.