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]
[image: Newscom]

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

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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 impressed and it’s kind of disheartening when you see one of your favorite bands that does have great musical talent barely selling over 10,000 after 6 months, but these skid marks are selling like crystal meth in a trailer park. (No offense to any of my trailer park, meth-head readers.)

So who’s buying this garbage? Is it the hardcore Slipknot fans also known as “Maggots”? I seriously want to know, because I don’t see their faces all over the place and I don’t see a lot of press. Seriously, WTF? It’s a cruel, cruel world.

I didn’t want to do it but I changed the video to the same one that was in the link to Thrashhits.com. It’s a better example of the “Metal”/rap. That’s a cool site too so swing on by Thrashhits whenever you can.

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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 other. Regardless of where our separate paths have taken us, we recognize there is a powerful and unique energy with this particular group of people we have not found anywhere else. This is why Limp Bizkit is back.”

Which loosely translates to:”We’re f*ckin broke and everything else we’re doing just isn’t quite cutting it.”. The reunion tour will kick off overseas on the festival circuit in Europe and a new album will probably be in the works. Shortly afterward, President Obama released the following statement.

“We’re sorry, world. We truly are very sorry. We never wanted it to come to this and if there was anything we could do to prevent this, we would have taken action long before now.” (not really an official statement)

Feel free to visit Limpbiskit.com where you can speak your mind about this reunion on their live chat. I’m outty…daaawgg!

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But don’t let me hold you back from your guilty pleasures. You can pre-order their compilation at their Myspace for $15.00. Now remember, that’s $15.00 you’ll never get back.

If you’re not familiar with Oden you can rent The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years and/or go listen to them at their myspace page. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

The above image is from Amazon. They don’t have a picture that I can use without permission, so I use this old-ass cd cover.

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I got on the Wikipedia and I really didn’t expect to find anything on this band. I never heard of them when I bought the EP and I never heard about them afterwards. I thought it was one of those things that just didn’t happen. I was wrong once again. I guess they are still around even since 1985, and do make their way around a bit still.

Macabre is a murder metal band from the USA. They were formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, and have never had a line-up change. They blend thrash metal, death metal, and grindcore (sometimes with nursery rhymes and folk melodies) to form their own unique style dubbed murder metal. Lyrically, they have a strong focus on serial killers, mass murderers and a touch of sick gore humour. Most lyrics are based upon true stories and are about real infamous personalities. They also have a side project called the Macabre Minstrels that play acoustic camp fire songs. Their current label is Decomposed Records.

OK, so these guys are still around and must be an underground type act that doesn’t obviously have a mainstream following. Nothing wrong with that. But let me tell you why I didn’t and I still don’t like them. It mentions they have a sick gore humor about them. I dig that, it’s cool. I like Gwar among other ill humored acts and even if you listen to Cannibal Corpse, you have to have some kind of sense of humor when you read the song titles and hear the lyrics. But the thing about Macabre isn’t so much the music, because as a three piece, they do pretty well. You have "Dennis The Menace" on drums (Mr. Willllllson), "Nefarious" on bass guitar and vocals and "Corporate Death" on guitar and vocals.

The thing about this band that I could never stand was the lead vocals. The backing vocals are a deep throated death metal style growl, but the lead vocals is this weird, sometimes high pitch-shifting routine that I just don’t like. Even after searching around and finding out that they have been doing this for awhile, I still think it’s terrible. The Black Sabbath cover song that’s on my EP has got to be the worst BS cover I have ever heard. The vocals screw it all up royally. The only likable song on this EP is "Freeze Dried Man", but the singing screws it up for me again. "Freeze Dried Man" is a funny song because it has lyrics such as:

Jeffrey Dahmer wanted a freeze-dried man
So he could do things he enjoyed again and again
Jeff said he’d fondle, rub, and lay with his freeze dried man
And pose him for pictures if flexible, with his polaroid in hand

Jeffrey had a plan
To freeze dry a man
But the device was thirty grand
So the thought was quickly canned

He went to the taxidermist to enquire on how to freeze dry a man
He told the man it was for a rabbit, but that was just a lie
Instead Jeffrey wanted to freeze dry a man
But the device was thirty grand, So the thought was quickly canned

Jeffrey had a plan
To freeze dry a man
But the device was thirty grand
So the thought was quickly canned

Funny and entertaining, but I can’t get past the vocals.

You can check out the video below and judge for yourself…you’ll see, or check out more songs on their myspace.

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Sharon Osbourne

I honestly don’t think Sharon has the credentials to teach them how not to be a bitch. And get this…the winner get’s "$100,000 to put towards her new and improved life". No doubt it will be blown on booze, blow and more stripper negligee. Now perhaps one of them can actually go to college and stop using the excuse that she started "Dancing" to pay her way through. OK, I think I’ve dragged that through the mud far enough, even though I could probably drag it out about another light-year or so.

If you feel the need for more information on this, you can stroll on over to VH1.com and check out the trailers

Image used with permission from Newscom.com

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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 short while, but their passion ands dedication for making music shows through. The band is releasing the self titled EP towards the end of 2008.”

It starts off with the usual metalcore sound, but when the clean vocals kick in, it is absolutely dreadful. I mean it sounds like Billy Corgan with his nuts in a twist. There is good clean vocals and there is bad…this goes beyond bad in to a whole other dimension. No doubt the scene kids will eat this emo/core up.

Check it out for yourself and tell me what you think.

Fear The Silence On Myspace

Fear The Silence on Myspace

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5 years later, just when you think it was safe to listen to the radio…someone bought some Limp Bizquick and is making up a fresh batch Limp Bizshit. That’s right. Ole’ Fred’s gettin’ most of the boyz backs togetha, dawg! Wes Borland didn’t get the call cause he was out trying to make his own thing happen that probably won’t. Terry Balsamo from Cold/Evanescence will be filling that void. No word yet as to when and where this abomination will tour or record, but I have the answers right here at Metal Martyr…-Who knows and who cares?

First things first, Fred. Clean up your image. You look like one of those Internet dudes that gets the big surprise on Dateline. Secondly, please don’t use that hand gesture. You don’t have the right and you look stupid doing it anyway. And lastly…no. Please no. We did nothing to deserve this.

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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 fans will love them as well as SHINEDOWN and SAVING ABEL.”

on another note for the fans of A7X, they recently released their live DVD Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough, filmed back on April 7th in Long Beach California during the Taste Of Chaos tour.

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