"We're like [expletive] Mount Rushmore, dudes!"

That was Foo Fighter Dave Grohl's impression on the set of Revolver mag's recent photo shoot in the name of getting out the metal fan vote for the 2008 Presidential primaries and election. Joining Grohl (below) on the May "Election Year Extravaganza" cover: Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows, AFI's Davey Havok, Lamb of God's Randy Blythe and System of a Down's Serj Tankian.

"I would assume that everyone is here today because we feel that we're at a time when it's important for the sake of our work that the issues at hand be addressed for people who do in fact look to us for our opinions," Havok (below) said.

But what about the people who think rockers should just stick to rock?

"I think you have to look at us not as five musicians but as five American citizens," Grohl said. "When I go play something like Live Earth and some cynic questions my intentions for being there, I wanna put his teeth down his throat. I'm their for my daughter and her rights and her future and her country." The former Nirvana drummer intimated that casting a vote at all this year is saying you're in favor of change -- no matter which candidate you choose. "I think people have a hard time imagining that things could get better right now," Grohl said. "And I think that if change were initiated it would almost be perpetual; there could be some momentum to it and things could get done. . . It almost doesn't matter who's the next president. As long as this one is gone, it's gonna be a sigh of relief -- like, 'Let's just start somewhere.'"

Also in the issue: An interview with the provocative Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello (check it: his great-uncle was the first freely elected prez of Kenya, his dad was one of Kenya's Mau Mau guerillas and his mother was a teacher and civil-rights activist). His message to those of you reading this is a familiar one: DO SOMETHING. "We have to demonstrate to young people that you can't just sit on the sidelines. Because after you leave the voting booth, Exxon is still gonna be there with their billions of dollars to persuade the White House to see things their way, not your way."

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