Just a few things real quick and I’m off to see if I can find a driving range that is open on this beautiful Labor day.

• Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone has landed at number 2 on the UK charts and number 1 on the Australian charts. So how’s it hitting on the Billboard Charts? Who gives a crap because the Billboards have their genres and stuff all screwed up. On a side note this album has started to grow on me a bit. I still feel it’s not their best work and there are still a few songs that I’m not feelin’, but it’s not too bad. Suppose it could have been worse.
• KISS are going to start marketing “Hotter Than Hell Ketchup” in the Myrtle Beach, SC KISS Coffee House…and you can be a proud owner of some spicy habanero ketchup (wouldn’t that be ‘hot sauce’? I’m just sayin’) for just 7.95 USD a bottle…
• Dark Funeral guitarist “Lord Ahriman” (~snicker-snicker~) are a couple of weeks into the pre-production of their next album and want to make sure they are “666%” satisfied before going into production.
• The Haunted have anounced a few Australian tour dates. The new album ‘Versus‘ will be out the end of this month. Nov. 08 – Brisbane, AUS @ The Arena, Nov. 09 – Sydney, AUS @ Manning Bar, Nov. 11 – Melbourne, AUS @ The Hifi, Nov. 13 – Perth, AUS @ The Capitol
• Bruce Dickinson piloted a plane that brought home some British RAF (Royal Air Force I’m assuming) returning home from Afghanistan.
• And lastly Austrian Death Machine will debut their first video from the recently released album Total Brutal. The video for “Get To The Choppa” will debut on Myspace Metal on September 3rd.

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Busy, Busy weekend. Had to work on a lot of things around the house yesterday in preparation for my daughter’s birthday. That kind of explains the lack of updates. This will be my last week at my present job, so starting next week there should be a lot more updates throughout the days. I’m really looking forward to this!

I have a really cool prize to give away sometime soon. I had an autographed copy of Machine Head’s The Blackening but I gave that to a friend already so that won’t be going out, however I have something in store and if you’re a guitar player you may be interested in it. I’ll just leave it at that until I announce the contest. With that, lets get to some bits and pieces of news from the last couple days.

Wes Borland, you know, the guitar player that used to play for Limp Bizkit. Well it appears that he needs some work so he’s found a new home in Marilyn Manson. Now he can slap the make-up and all that good stuff on and fit right in…

Lamb Of God plan to release their next record in early 2009. They until then they will hit up a bunch of left coast tour dates with Metallica. I’m willing to bet that they are going to steal the show.

Divine Heresy found a new singer in Travis Neil from The Bereaved. Most people said the re-recorded version of Bleed The Fifth doesn’t sound much different from the Tommy Cummings version. Maybe that’s what Dino’s looking for.

In a recent interview Vince Neil said that Generation Swine was “a terrible record”, to that we all said ‘No Shit, Sherlock!’

Wayne Static’s porn star wife has decided it’s time to stop taking in other men and try to live a ‘normal life’. It would be nice if Wayne would try a new approach to music and make a record that doesn’t sound like the last one.

Bruce Dickinson just turned 50, but he doesn’t look a day over 51…and he still hates Sharon Osbourne.

Until next time…piss off!!

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The new version of Halloween, directed by Rob Zombie has been airing trailers on television. It looks o.k. from the previews but there are just some classics that should be left as they are. You don’t see movie makers remaking Casablanca do you?

New Kerry King video interview available from YouTube can be viewed at Blabbermouth.net

Iron Maiden’s, Bruce DickinsonAmazon.co.uk

Madball and Sick Of It All of the NYC Hardcore scene will be touring together beginning this fall. I would love to see this!!

Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine says he has a lot of announcements coming in the next week of which details of a Megadeth box set will be unveiled.

Gwar’s front man, Oderus Urungus calls Lordi a Gwar tribute band in a recent interview…frankly that’s what I thought of when I first saw them too.

Rob Cavestany the guitarist of Death Angel has been working on a solo album with a September 4 release date.

Over 200 people were arrested in Iran for attending a “satanic” rock concert. Read more here (Reuters).

Resources: Blabbermouth.net Reuters.com

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