When Did Metal Get So...Metal? Ex-Queens Of The Stone Age Bassist Nick Oliveri Gets in a SWAT Showdown in L.A.

For the second time in a week, the bassist from a high-profile metal act has run into weird and deadly serious trouble with the cops.

39-year-old Nick Oliveri, the former bassist from Queens of the Stone Age, was reportedly in a SWAT standoff with police in L.A. last night.

According to TMZ, Oliveri's girlfriend returned to his apartment yesterday to get her things and move out after the two had an allegedly violent argument the night before. Oliveri reportedly wouldn't let her leave and locked the doors. When police came after calls form neighbors, Oliveri wouldn't let them in and a SWAT team was called in.

Eventually he let his girlfriend go, but stayed inside for another couple hours. When he finally let the police inside, they found a fully loaded rifle in the premises. According to the L.A. Times, Oliveri was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.

Earlier this week, Coheed and Cambria bassist Michael R. Todd was arrested outside a concert at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, after allegedly robbing a Walgreens to get Oxycontin.

According to The Boston Globe, "the 30-year-old from New York showed the pharmacist a note on the screen of his smartphone that said that he had a bomb and wanted her to give him the narcotic."

After Todd was told the pharmacy didn't have Oxycontin, he reportedly said “I’ll take your Perc 30s.’

Todd then allegedly fled the scene, jumped a fence and hopped into a cab, for a comically inept getaway. To round up Todd, authorities simply called the cab company he had used, and the taxi driver took them to where they had dropped the Coheed and Cambria bassist, at the band's tour bus just outside the concert venue. Todd was ID'ed by the taxi driver, the pharmacist and by security cameras.

Coheed and Cambria played the show without Todd.