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 …read more

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.

Undead
Do we really need more masked or make-up bands in Metal? We have Mushroomhead, Slipknot, Gwar, Marilyn Manson and almost every Black Metal band and we had Motorgrater, Mudvayne and members of Limp Bizkit. I may have missed some and don’t say KISS, I consider them strictly rock these days. Now in the last year or so the Hollywood Undead have rapped their way in to the rap/metal scene (Is there such a scene?). Obviously kids are eating this shit up because according to Headbanger’s Blog they have sold over 180,000 copies of their album, Swan Songs. Obviously I’m not …read more

Limp Bizkit Reunion? Snap Yo! Didn’t I just post something last week about Wes Borland saying that he wants nothing to do with a Limp Bizkit Reunion? I guess it all comes down to money and making false statements to sound like your here to save “heavy popular music”. I think we were doing just fine without you. On LimpBizkit.com they announced early this morning that the original line-up is reuniting. Borland and Durst released a joint statement that said:
“We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each …read more

When most people think of the name Odin these days, they associate the name with the Norse god. However, this Odin is a bit different. Odin, the unsigned stars of The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, are going to release an 18 song compilation of songs that I really doubt many people will want to buy. I don’t mean to be cynical but seriously…there was a reason why this band didn’t get signed back then. They sucked. I thought they did anyway.  Of course I was never fond of the Hair/Glam Metal genre. The ass-less …read more

News has been really slow as of late, so I flipped open an old CD book I have and was diggin’ through, trying to find something to write about…and there it was. Like a turd in punch bowl. About 12 or 13 years ago I was at some record store in Jacksonville North Carolina when I came across a band with a cool name. Macabre: Behind The Wall Of Sleep EP. Macabre was on the Nuclear Blast label at the time and I thought I couldn’t go wrong. So I bought this 4 song EP with a cover of …read more

Sharon Osbourne will be hosting VH1’s next stupid reality show in "The Rock Of Love Charm School", where she will trying to turn 14 or more train-wreck, floozies into more lady-like entities. I hope she has a magic wand because this is going to be interestingly stupid. I think she’d have better luck breast-feeding a rabid wolverine than turning these girls into anything more than a facade of moral value and self-dignity. You can sculpt a statue of Venus out of crap and it may look semi-pretty, but it’s still crap.
I honestly don’t think Sharon has the credentials …read more

Metal Edge Magazine’s compilation CD that comes with their October/November issue has the usual mix of good, bad and absolutely horrible singles from some bands you’ve heard of, but mostly bands you haven’t. The first song on the CD is Hatebreed’s cover of Sepultura’s Classic Refuse/Resist from their October 28th covers album called For The Lions.
Now on to the not so good. Fear The Silence’s “A New Hope” is the 4th track on the cd. The run down on them reads like this.
“Fear The Silence is a band from Buffalo, NY area. The band has been together for only a …read more

First he told us that we gotta have faith, then he told us he did it all for the nookie, went a’rollin-rollin-rollin and soon after he took a classic song, butchered it, added a damn Speak N’ Spell and actually made people think it was an original. It was a sad, sad year. Results may vary? Oh, yes. What a true title it was. Some cried, some people wanted to break stuff, but most got sick to their stomach and wish they never heard of a Limp Bizkit.
5 years later, just when you think it was safe to listen …read more

And on the 1,321,684,943,251,684 day God decided that the ‘States heard enough Avenged Sevenfold for the year.
Avenged Sevenfold has canceled their remaining U.S. tour, citing problems with M. Shadows vocals. Fortunately for him and not us, they say they can continue the tour, starting in Japan in October. Shadows stated:
“I feel as if I’m letting so many people down, especially the fans we were supposed to see this month, but after a little rest it’ll be back to the usual craziness everyone expects of A7X. All of us are so excited about going out with BUCKCHERRY in November; our …read more