Saw this over at Screamstress, Rob Zombie’s animated film El Superbeasto will be coming to DVD on September 22nd. Check out the video below, then visit Screamstress for the full scoop!

Jamie over at Hard Rock Chick has posted an in-depth personal account of her trip to Crue Fest last week. It’s filled with good times and nosebleed seats. You should go check it out. She also posted an interview with Charm City Devils, in which they essentially prove that they are charming.

Check it out here:

It’s a good read, decent interview (I promise, the audio does get better), and if you’ve never been over to her site, it’s worth bookmarking.

This has reminded me that I need to get a good camera before I head to the Decimation of the Nation Tour here in Austin on August 22nd.

Zakk Wyled didn’t just burn a bridge, he apparently dynamited that bastard like it crossed the River Kwai. In a recent phone interview with 101.5 KFLY in Oregon, Zakk remained relatively calm at first while saying:

“I gotta be honest with ya, the boss is not even giving me a phone call, so I mean, it’s just like, what’s going on over there? Are we doing this thing, are we not doing it? I keep getting asked these questions, I go ‘Call the boss, when he tells you, you call me back’.”

As the conversation progresses, Zakk becomes more and more agitated until he finally explodes into an expletive rich cacophony to the tune of:

“Where I come from, the bottom line is, s*** like this goes down, I swear to Christ, we snap motherf***ers necks and beat the living s*** out of people. It ain’t f***ing cool. So it is what it is. The wife can say what she wants and all this other s***. It ain’t f***ing cool. It’s just like, alright, cool, you want to play tough guy s***? Look me in the eyes, I’ll tell him ‘Meet me in the back f***ing alley, and we’ll get this f***ing s*** on. You gonna f***ing treat me like a dick? F*** you.”

If Zakk hasn’t been contacted at all about his apparent expulsion as Ozzy’s lead guitarist, I can understand his frustration. However, before this recording, there may have been a chance of a reconciliation down the road. I don’t see it now, nor do I call people who bite the heads off of living animals (and pay my bills) out into back alleys. I’m just sayin’.

Listen to the conversation here.

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Behemoth has unleashed the trailer for the video for “Ov Fire and the Void”, filmed by Grupa 13 in Poland. You can also watch a preview of the upcoming DVD bonus footage over at Metal Injection!

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BEHEMOTH
ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL
Tour w/ Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid, Cannibal Corpse, Job For A Cowboy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel

07/30 London, ON London Music Hall not part of tour w/ God Forbid
07/31 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
08/01 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
08/02 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/03 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall not part of tour w/ Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, God Forbid
08/04 Boston, MA Comcast Center
08/06 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
08/07 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
08/08 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre
08/09 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
08/10 Spartanburg, SC Ground Zero not part of tour w/ Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, God Forbid
08/11 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre
08/12 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheater
08/14 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
08/15 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center

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I was given the opportunity last week to listen to Bigelf’s new CD Cheat the Gallows, and I absolutely love this band. While most of their songs wouldn’t be considered “metal”, one of their jams, titled “The Evils of Rock and Roll” is featured on Revolver Magazine’s free 21 song Metal Mayhem Compilation, which is the first song I heard by the group.

As part of the Progressive Nation Tour, Bigelf is currently touring with Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale the Summit. Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy says:

Los Angeles’ Bigelf are my personal favorite new band to come along in many years…their latest CD “Cheat The Gallows” is my favorite album of the year and I already had positioned them onto the European run of Progressive Nation in the Fall….with them now joining us on PN09 in North America as well, it looks like world domination is now not that far out of reach for them!

Bigelf has a very refreshing sound, a pleasing mix of the Beatles, Pink Floyd with a hefty dash of Black Sabbath thrown in for awesomeness. Cheat the Gallows is “30 years behind and 5 years ahead of what’s happening in music today.”

Read my review and contest details after the jump!

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Nicholas Birch of The Irish Times reports that Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan ordered the arrest of several men in Istanbul last weekend after flashing the metal salutes to a passing cavalcade.

Yusuf Sengul was attending a metal festival with 4 of his friends, when they made the sign at the passing vehicles. Sengul stated:

“The tinted windows of one of the cars opened and a guy in dark glasses shouted ‘what the hell are you doing’… They said they were acting on the orders of the prime minister, we were laughing. We thought it was a joke.”

It was no joke. All five men were bundled into cars, taken to a police station, and held without charge for 21 hours. To add a touch of freakin’ strange to the debacle, Turkish authorities forced the men to listen to a selection of pop and Turkish music after being handcuffed, fingerprinted and repeatedly questioned.

Prime Minister Erdogan has been repeatedly blamed for “outbursts of intolerance” and his “conservative democrat” party advisers have repeatedly pressured media outlets to fire journalists who have maintained independent views. They also have the charming habit of fining cartoonists who draw satirical images of Erdogan.

Prime Minister Erdogan said about the incident:

“I unfortunately saw the state of some of our young people, and it was depressing. This endless, uncontrolled moral erosion is really worrying. We must defend our family structure.”

I’ll tell you what’s depressing. Intolerant totalitarians that will bully and torture (pop music? Damn that, waterboard me) their own citizens based on what they claim is good for the people. What we’re seeing here is a man who equates metal with “moral erosion”, all while trying to force people to conform to his ridiculous idea of Utopian society.

How do you say “hypocritical asshole” in Turkish?

[via: Blabbermouth]
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Found this over at Metal Sucks, and wanted to share it here. There is no way that I couldn’t, it’s like an amazingly retarded train wreck taking place for over 4 minutes, all the while building steam towards a crushingly pathetic ball of wtf. I don’t even know what to classify this crap. Autotune Gimpcore?

Douche McBaggins and his band of merry followers seriously need a new hobby.

Immolation rocks. Great quality video of Immolation causing broken necks rocks. Death metal rocks. Watch these videos.

Because they rock.

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Chris Beattie, Hatebreed’s bassist, posted the following message regarding the upcoming “Decimation of the Nation” tour:

“The Hatebreed tour machine is back on the road this summer with our good friends in Chimaira to bring you the first leg of the Decimation Of The Nation Tour. You’re not going to find anything heavier than this tour in 2009, unless we’re on that too! Get there early and check out all the bands. There is enough mosh to go around! Bring your ass to the show and you will not be disappointed!”

We shall see, Chris… we shall see.

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The Bezerker, Goatwhore, Obituary, Krisiun and Warbringer will be touring the US and Canada beginning in September. Thanks, SMN News.

Tour Dates:

• September 3 – The Rock – Tucson, Arizona
• September 4 – U.B.’s Bar – Mesa, Arizona
• September 5 – Gator’s – Farmington, New Mexico
• September 6 – Bluebird Theater – Denver, Colorado
• September 8 – Galaxy Theatre – Santa Ana, California
• September 9 – Key Club – Los Angeles, California
• September 10 – Slim’s – San Francisco, California
• September 11 – Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, Oregon
• September 12 – El Corazon – Seattle, Washington
• September 14 – Sugar – Victoria, British Columbia
• September 15 – Plazza Club – Vancover, British Columbia
• September 17 – Warehouse – Calgary, Alberta
• September 18 – Starlite Room – Edmonton, Alberta
• September 19 – The Riddell at University of Regina – Regina, Saskatchewan
• September 20 – Royal Albert Arms – Winnipeg, Manitoba
• September 22 – Rave – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• September 23 – The Pearl Room – Mokena, Illinois
• September 25 – Opera House – Toronto, Ontario
• September 26 – Imperial de Quebec – Quebec City, Quebec
• September 27 – FouFounes – Montreal, Quebec
• September 28 – The Trocadero – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• September 29 – The Blender Theatre at Gramercy – New York, New York
• September 30 – The Palladium – Worcester, Massachusetts
• October 2 – Volume 11 – Raleigh, North Carolina
• October 3 – Orange Peel – Asheville, North Carolina
• October 4 – Headliner’s Music Hall – Louisville, Kentucky

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