I’m gonna keep this short and sweet cause I’m about to throw back a few cold ones and try to avoid watching VH1 cause every time I do I tend to get pissed off. Anyway, I took the day off from work today so we (the wife and daughter, son was at school) went out today and I picked up a couple CD’s. I picked up Divine Heresy and The Sword. Read more

I’m gonna mix it up a bit here tonight with the Old School Review. I’m going to review three cd’s in my collection instead of the usual one. I rarely do a bad review so I thought I would throw one in there this time. Lets get this ball rollin’! Read more

Welcome to the last Metal Shavings for August. It’s been a busy and hectic month for me and I hope everyone had a great summer as we start to roll out the fall welcome mat. Lets get to the news:

Glenn Danzig will be heading out to do some U.S. shows this fall and has just wrapped up production on the debut recording of Misfits Guitarist Doyle’s band Gorgeous Frankenstein. Not sure what to make of these guys yet. Glenn does not have any planes of rejoining his former misfits counterparts and has just recently released The Lost Tracks Of Danzig. Read more

Here is an article posted by Blabbermouth.net. Gene Brings up some very valid points and almost makes you feel guilty about downloading mp3’s. Stick around to the end to read my 10 pesos on this.

KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons was a guest on Dave Navarro’s Internet TV show, Spread Entertainment, last Thursday (August 23). The highlight of the program was Simmons and Navarro discussing the current disturbing state of the music industry. A partial transcript of the chat follows. Read more

You know, I have been checking out a lot of other metal blogs on the web and I gotta say that most of them are extremely boring. I mean, every one I go to has nothing but posts of CD reviews of new and old. No news, no opinionation (I just made up that word), no human side to it. I think this blog is unique in a way that I post news, CD reviews, and best of all…my opinion. Read more

Dave Mustaine has issued this Gigantour update at the Gigantour.com website:

“Today is Monday and there is one week left before we leave for Alaska. We will come home after that for 16 days and then it is off to the Pac Rim, and eventually to Australia, to start this awesome line-up of Gigantour 2007 in Australia, better known as G.2007.OZ! Read more

The second installment of Dear Oderus has been posted at Anarchy music. Once again I have posted one of the letters. If you think this is foul then read the rest of the letters at the link at the bottom. This is a cleanest one I could find to post here. Oh, and unless your a Gwar fan, please don’t take any of Oderus’s answers seriously. They may be vulgar and foul but they are still just part of the gimmick. Enjoy Read more

Old School British Black Metal band Venom (I’m not a fan) have pushed the release of their new record back to next year. Below is an excerpt from an article from Blabbermouth.net.

British black metal pioneers VENOM have decided to re-record some of the already completed tracks for their upcoming album and push back the CD’s projected release date to early 2008. Read more

Headbangers Ball looks to have some good videos tonight. I wish there werent so many commercials during the show and they could shorten it up a bit for old people like myself that have a hard time staying up so late to watch it.

Below is the line-up. Read more

That is all…