By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 17:19 EST, 23 October 2013 | UPDATED: 17:05 EST, 24 October 2013

The music that traditionally accompanies Western yoga classes features waterfall and sitar background tracks, but those who find the sounds irritating now have alternative at hand.

Two Pittsburgh-based yogis have invented Black Yoga, a twice-weekly class set to a heavy metal music soundtrack.

Black Yoga is intended for people who get bored with the sounds of birds and waterfalls, co-founder Kimee Massie told The Village Voice.

Bend in black: Black yogis assume the forward side angle position during class

The class seems like a logical combination of Kimee and her co-founder husband Scott's professional experiences. Scott is the former head of a small metal music label while Kimee is a yoga instructor. He compiles the classes' playlists, while she plays instructor (she also teaches normal classes at a local health spa).

Their classes are held in the dark and include a mix of music from the trip-hop, industrial rock, and doom metal fringes of music.

I think people see the flyers and assume we are head-banging to Sepultura and calling it yoga, Scott told the paper. That is definitely not the case, he clarified.

In fact, Scott says that he picks the more mellow songs from obscure bands including Earth and Dark Space.

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Meet Black Yoga, the new yoga class for heavy metal-lovers