Metallica states:

“If you’ve been playing Guitar Hero on the Wii, you may have noticed that we were short a few songs when it came to ‘Death Magnetic’ – well no more! Our friends at Guitar Hero have been working long and hard with Nintendo so that Wii fans can now play the eight ‘Death Magnetic’ songs not previously available for that gaming system.

“Starting November 24, additional tracks from ‘Death Magnetic’ will be available as downloadable singles for 200 Wii points each. If you’re keeping score, that would be ‘All Nightmare Long’, ‘That Was Just Your Life’, ‘The Day That Never Comes’, ‘The Judas Kiss’, ‘The End Of The Line’, ‘The Unforgiven III’, ‘Suicide & Redemption J.H.’ and ‘Suicide & Redemption K.H.’ Enjoy!”

Thank you, Nintendo. I hope your consoles start randomly exploding in retaliation to having this crap played through them.

[image: Newscom/UPI/Michael Bush]

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Every band that wants to make an impact on their fans, not only through music but through their album art needs a good logo or mascot. Megadeth has Vic Rattlehead, Iron Maiden has Eddie, The Misfits have The Crimson Ghost and etc. Over the years sometimes these logos and mascots evolve through better artwork and technology. Some bands stay with what works while others make changes to keep it interesting.

Metallica is one of those bands that has changed their logo over the years but has recently went back to the original format they used with Kill ‘Em All. Unrealityshout.com writer, Gerard McGarry recently wrote an article about the evolution of Metallica’s logo where he shows us how they went from the classic logo to the three dimensional logo, to a more blocky logo during the Load and Reload years and back to the classic logo with their latest release, Death Magnetic.

I think that most fans appreciate the original logo, to include the more 3d version than it’s later predecessor and were happy to see it once again on Death Magnetic.

Check out Gerard’s article on the evolution of Metallica’s logo at Unrealityshout.com.

In other Metallica news, Metallica have posted the video for Broken, Beaten and Scarred at Metallica.com. Broken, Beaten and Scarred is the latest single from Death Magnetic and can be purchased as a digipak coming on April 3rd…but why?

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• 9/14 – Nashville, TN – Sommet Center
• 9/15 – Cincinnati, OH – US Bank Arena
• 9/17 – Indianapolis, IN – Conseco Fieldhouse
• 9/19 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
• 9/28 – San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center
• 9/29 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
• 10/01 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Bank Atlantic Center
• 10/03 – Tampa, FL – St. Pete Times Forum
• 10/04 – Atlanta, GA – Phillips Arena
• 10/12 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre
• 10/13 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
• 10/15 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
• 10/17 – Charlottesville, VA – JPJ Arena
• 10/18 – Charlotte, NC – Charlotte Bobcats Arena
• 10/26 – Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre
• 10/29 – Ottawa, ON – Scotiabank Place
• 10/31 – Quebec City, QC – Colisee Pepsi
• 11/09 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena
• 11/10 – Buffalo, NY – HSBC Arena
• 11/12 – Albany, NY – Times Union Center
• 11/14 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
• 12/05 – Las Vegas, NV – Mandalay Bay
• 12/07 – Boise, ID – Idaho Center
• 12/08 – Sacramento, CA – ARCO Arena
• 12/10 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center
• 12/12 – San Jose, CA – HP Pavillion

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Warner Brothers music and Q-Prime Management have jointly filed a lawsuit against Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich after he admitted to downloading Death Magnetic illegally via an undisclosed file-sharing network. Ulrich claims; “if there is anybody that has a right to download ‘Death Magnetic’ for free, it’s me.”. Warner Bothers Music begged to differ.

That would be awesome if that was really the case! But he did DL DM FF (you’ll figure it out). According to Blabbermouth.net Lars was on That Metal Show on VH1 Classic and the following was said.

“I sat there myself and downloaded [METALLICA's latest CD] ‘Death Magnetic’ [illegally] from the Internet just to try it,” he told Eddie Trunk of VH1 Classic’s hit series “That Metal Show”. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is how it works.’ I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download ‘Death Magnetic’ for free, it’s me. I sat there one night at my house with about six of my friends and a bottle of wine. And what was it called?! [Trying to think of the name of the file-sharing client he used to download the album] We found it — this was like two or three days after ['Death Magnetic'] leaked. I was like, ‘You know what? I’ve gotta try this.’ So we sat there, and thirty minutes later, I had ‘Death Magnetic’ in my computer. It was kind of bizarre.”

I find this all kind of funny because I really wonder if it truly was the first time he ever downloaded anything for free. I also wonder if he downloaded anything else after that like, I don’t know, let’s say every Megadeth album just to be a dick to Dave Mustaine.

So Lars admits to downloading something for free, even if it’s his own work. Do they own the rights to it exclusively or does Warner Bros. music? If Warner Bros music owns the rights, could they actually sue him if they wanted to? I say we send the FBI to his house and see what else he has downloaded since then. He’s no different than anyone else if he’s guilty of illegal downloading, right?

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Again…Whoop-di-friggin-do!

I intended to post a video of this “Best Metal Performance” but Warner Music Group wants money every time you even utter a syllable of a musicians name that they own the rights to.

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Whoop-di-friggin-do!

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“I’m not going to give a whole schpeel about ‘come back in 20 years or something,’ ” says drummer Lars Ulrich. “I’ll fucking take it right now. I’m fucking psyched that anybody still gives a shit about this band.

Metallica recently one a Kerrang! award and has had metal magazines and websites kissing their asses since the release of Death Magnetic. Some have even given Death Magnetic album of the year. Sorry, I just don’t see it that way. Read the entire article on the Hall Of Fame inductees and see who else is getting in at Rolling Stone.

Has Kirk Hammet been taking posing lessons from black metal bands, with the hand thing going on?

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All That Remains – Overcome: This was one of my “Highly Anticipated” releases for 2008. After really enjoying The Fall Of Ideals and This Darkened Heart, I couldn’t wait to see what was next. When the first two singles dropped I really liked them. The sound was a bit different and I couldn’t wait for the album. When I got it I was pretty stoked. I wrote a great review for it and said it surpassed their previous releases. While the album is different from the previous two and is good in it’s own right, it lacks longevity. I wouldn’t call it “uninspired” as many others have, but it It doesn’t having the lasting effect that The Fall Of Ideals has.

The Acacia Strain – Continent: This is another one of those albums that doesn’t have the lasting effect. It’s heavy and brutal, but it lacks the hooks that I feel is necessary to make an album stand the test of time. The vocals and lyrics are great, but a good chorus or breakdown is needed for me to truly appreciate this album. Like The Dead Walk, I really dug it at first listen but it’s easily forgotten within a week or so.

Austrian Death Machine – Total Brutal: Tim Lambesis side project with Ahhnold was fun at first few listens. The music is cool and there are a lot of guest solos in the mix. Paul Raven (From The Critics Den) kind of opened my eyes up a bit more on this album. In his review he states that it is one of those albums that get’s passed around by teenage metalheads and that the novelty of it doesn’t last very long. He was exactly right. It’s a “Solid thrash album”, as he says in the comments of my review but it doesn’t last long and gets thrown in with the stack of things such as Beatallica, the Jerkie Boys and such. Funny, yes. Overwhelmingly wowing…’fraid not.

Soulfly – Conquer: I stated in my review that this is probably Soulfly’s best release ever…and I still feel that way. If you ever plan on getting a Soulfly album then start with this. If you want to reach in to their back catalog, then go for their self titled debut. Everything in between is garbage in my opinion. Conquer brings a thrashier feel to it as if Max and Igor Cavalera Conspiracy release resurrected something inside of him. Let’s not forget that Marc Rizzo is a complete bad-ass guitar player too.

Withered – Folie Circulaire: This one was really tough to get in to. The blackened death metal genre is something I’m fairly new to and if your not totally in to that music then it will either take some time to get used to or it will just not sink in at all. The Funeral Pyre is the same way. Their 2008 release Wounds has that strange effect where it takes some time. Prosthetic Records signs acts that stand out from the rest. That’s where bands like Lamb Of God and All That Remains got their big start. Other bands that made their Prosthetic label debut this year that deserve a listen are Book Of Black Earth with Horoskopus and The Antagonist with Exist.

Children Of Bodom – Blooddrunk: This album seemed to fall short of my expectation upon first listen. I honestly don’t know what I expected of this album considering that I only heard Hate Crew Deathroll and Are You Dead Yet? before I got BloodDrunk. I bought it and the same day immediately after first listen wrote a review saying that it was mediocre. A day or two later I wrote a quick re-review, something I don’t often do. The album grew on me and I was really getting in to it. While it’s still not my favorite COB release it’s a good release nonetheless. After I bought Blooddrunk I went on the search and bought the remaining C.O.B. re-releases of the albums I didn’t have.

Finally Slipknot and Metallica: I loved the old Metallica like a million others have. I’ve also been disappointed like a million others have since the release of Load, Reload and St. Anger. What I expected of Death Magnetic was another over-hyped piece of dog excrement. What we got was a not-so-bad album with a more thrash feel than the previous four Metallica studio album with it’s ups and downs. This album proved that Metallica haven’t totally lost touch with their past, but are still far from re-achieving the expectations of a lot of their hardcore following fans from the beginning. At some points is seems as they are trying too hard and some times it seems they aren’t trying hard enough. Better than expected but still no enough to quench the hunger of a dying Metallica fan. Progress has been made but they might never make another Master Of Puppets and that’s something we all need to live with. To name this as “Album Of The Year” is just plain idiotic.

Slipknot really disappointed me this year. All Hope Is Gone was hyped and hyped some more. The best songs were released as singles and most everything else on the album felt like a rushed filler. We’ve seen a different progression of the band since MFKR, but this one was a giant step sideways instead of forward. Iowa had me wanting more and Vol. 3 made me a happy fan. The Stone Sour releases in between sufficed but All Hope Is Gone made me second guess myself as a fan of this band. I don’t really know if I will anticipate the next one as much as I have in the past. Also I have found so many more bands and releases this year that it was almost easy to forget how much I disliked this record and that makes me feel as if perhaps I’m growing away from Slipknot, which ultimately is not necessarily a bad thing. All Hope Is not Gone, but on more release like this and it may be.

Writing reviews is not as an easy process as some might think. After you have written so quite a few it’s tough to come up with creative ways to say just how “Brutal” or shitty an album really is. For some it comes easy and for others like myself it’s not always a piece of cake. You also have to battle your own feelings sometimes and try not to second guess yourself in fear of drawing a negative response from someone that doesn’t feel the same way about an album. At times you read a comment from someone after you’ve posted a review and it’s get’s you thinking about that album. You go back and you think to yourself, “Damn, they’re right.”. You don’t want to change your mind but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and either say so or just ignore the fact. Some albums deserve a full track-by-track review and other just need a simple explanation that the album slays. With the Internet it’s fairly easy to find reviews before you buy a cd. Who’s advice you take is solely up to you and your liking. If ever you agree read a review in Rolling Stone Magazine and it says nothing but negative things about the album…chances is are that the album is great. If they say and album is innovative and spectacular…buyer beware.

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Best Hard Rock Performance

• Inside the fire: Disturbed
• Visions: Judas Priest
• Wax Simulacra: The Mars Voltra
• Saints Of Los Angeles: Motley Crue
• Lords Of Salem: Rob Zombie

My pick for this category would be Judas Priest simply for the reason that this is a great song and everything else on this list is bovine excrement.

Best Metal Performance

• Heroes Of Our Time: DragonForce
• Nostradamus: Judas Priest
• My Apocalypse: Metallica
• Under My Thumb: Ministry
• Psychosocial: Slipknot

My Pick would be Slipknot because this is probably the best heavy song off of All Hope Is Gone. Dragonforce annoys the hell out of me, Nostradamus is the most redundant song from that album sheerly because of the number of time he sings “Nostradamus” in the song and My Apocalypse is not a great song from Death Magnetic not to mention it’s one of the songs that sound terrible production wise. Concerning Ministry, I don’t think anyone should be nominated for a cover song.

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

• Castellorizon: David Gilmour from Live At Dansk
• Suicide & Redemption: Metallica
• 34 Ghosts I-IV: Nine Inch Nails
• Hope (Live For The Art Of Peace): Rush
• Peaches En Regalia: Zappa On Zappa

My pick is David Gilmour. Although the song is mostly ambient and some orchestration until about 2:11 into the song, it just has that David Gilmour/Pink Floyd feel to it. I like Suicide & Redemption but it’s not the most creative Metallica instrumental and is far too long clocking in at nearly 10 minutes long. I haven’t heard the other three so I don’t have anything to comment on those.

Metallica is nominated for Best Rock Album but they are up against Coldplay, so as we all know Coldplay will most likely win it. Anyone else have a hard time saying “Coldplay” without vomiting just a little? Death Magnetic is also nominated for Best Recording Package and Rick Ruben is up for Producer Of The Year as usual.

AC/DC Rock N Roll Train is up for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. Once again they are up against Coldplay so their chances of winning that silly category is highly unlikely.

You can read the entire list of nominees from every category at Chicago Sun Time Blog.

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