In this game we will connect things using Wikipedia articles. Each poster will post two Wikipedia articles. Then it's the next poster's job to find a path from the first article to the second by clicking on links in the Wikipedia articles. For example, if I posted these two articles:

Haruhi Suzumiya -> Invasion of Normandy

Then a possible path would be:

Haruhi Suzumiya -> Anime -> Japanese Language -> Japan -> World War II -> Invasion of Normandy

In order to be a valid path, each article in the sequence must have a link to the next somewhere on the page.

Now, let's get started:

Death Metal -> American Civil War

Death Metal > Social commentary (under Vocals and Lyrics) > New York City (under Newspapers and comic books) > American Civil War (under History).

Next up: William Shakespeare to Alarm clock.

William Shakespeare > France (under Sonnets) > Switzerland > The Swatch Group > Watch > Clock > Alarm clock

Next: Phil Leadbetter to Edge chasing

Phil Leadbetter > Dobro > Electric guitar > Distortion > Signal processing > Computer > Embarrassingly parallel > Parallel computing > Deadlock > Edge chasing

I assumed anything below See Also, as well as categories, was off limits.

Polka onward to Oligosynthetic language

Very well, I edited my last post to comply. Huzzah!

Polka > Mexico > Nahuatl > Morphology (linguistics) > Morphological typology > Synthetic language > Oligosynthetic language

Next: Vesper (comics) to Tayshaun Prince.