Couple taking engagement pics find metal band in the woods, ask them to join

TRABUCO CANYON, Calif., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A California couple's engagement photos are going viral after they encountered a black metal band in the woods and asked them to be in some pictures.

John Awesome and Nydia Hernandez said they were having their engagement photos taken by Janet Wheeland in Holy Jim Canyon, Calif., when they spotted a black metal band taking promotional pictures nearby.

"During the last part of the session, we noticed a few guys with some corpse paint makeup on sitting at a nearby bench blaring out some black metal music," Awesome told ABC News. "We just randomly thought it would be a funny idea if we could get them to be a part of our engagement shoot. So we approached them and asked and they more than happy to accept! Super nice people. I seriously can't make this stuff up."

The band, Coldvoid, posed in the background of a few of the couple's photos, and even wielded props including a sword and a flaming candelabra.

"They gave us a copy of their new demo and it was the perfect eerie soundtrack for the drive out of the woods," Wheeland said. ""t was a perfect, spontaneous finale to our photo shoot. We couldn't have planned it better."

Coldvoid's Zak Buser, aka Uraeus, said the band had not decided whether they will use any photos featuring the couple in their promotional materials. He said the "metal" status of engagement photos is in question.

"I would say they're normally not metal," he told Jezebel.