Scrap Metal Report 9/11

I didn’t bother watching the news this morning because everything is about 9/11 again. It was a terrible tragedy for the United States and they say “We Will Never Forget”. Even if we wanted to forget, we couldn’t. It’s embedded in our brains and every year they have to hold a ceremony and repeat the names of the people that died. I’m not trying to be a negative, cynical bastard about this, but is a ceremony necessary every year? Can we not take other measures to remember and perhaps start moving forward? Like I said, I’m not being disrespectful to anyone that participated in the rescue, died or had a loved one that died when this happened. I’m just saying that each year is the same and I think it would benefit the U.S. and the victims more if we found a way to move forward. Not to forget, but to move forward in some way and still be able to honor those that we lost.

With that said, let’s round up some Metal news:

• Despised Icon have announced that they will off tour for the next couple of months and working on new material.
• A deluxe edition of Machine Head’s The Blackening will be released with a bonus cd with rarities and b-sides and a DVD with Live videos from various tours. You can check out more about here.
• Kataklysm will be filming the video for Blood In Heaven from Prevail.
• For everyone that illegally downloaded Metallica’s Death Magnetic and thought it was ok, but some songs were way too long there is hope for you after all. Some audio engineer thought the same thing and did some editing. Check that out at Metallica – Death Magnetic – Better, Shorter, Cutted (2008) Yes, “cutted”. Not my words, but theirs. Update: The link reported that the content is blocked because it’s suspected to contain illegal content. Q-Prime didn’t was a minute taking care of that, did they? Well everyone is saying that it sounds better than the original. Go figure.
• Michale Graves, the former 90’s era Misfits frontman said that there was more to the breakup and reunion issues of the band than the press or Doyle is telling you. Check out more on that here.