Last week I bought “Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal“. I had a problem with the DVD though. It was unbalanced or something. It wouldn’t play correctly in a standard DVD player, but would play fine in my Laptop. I took it back to exchange it for another copy today, but they were all out. Instead they gave me credit and let me exchange it for something else so I found the new Dimebag Darrell book He Came To Rock.
The book also came with Dimevision Vol. 1. The book is great and is full of pictures of Dime, …read more

Seriously. Times can’t be that tough.
Big Vin Records is auctioning off some stuff and to start things off you can bid on an oven autographed by Big Vin himself. From his personal stash, Vinnie Pauls oven is up on Ebay and you can bid on it. The link below goes on to say that it has cooked up and served meals to some of the biggest names in rock and metal.
Up next will be Vin’s toilet where many famous asses have layed their loads, puked and urinated in…and the best part is, it wasn’t cleaned before being removed from his …read more

As I mentioned in the Tyranny And Bloodshred Tour post, Soldiers Of Scrape opened before Firewind. If you have never heard of S.O.S., then let begin by asking this: Do you like Pantera? Do you like Lamb Of God? Do you like Slayer? And lastly, do you like ass kickin’ heavy F**kin’ Metal? If you said yes to any of those, especially the last one, then you will dig the Soldiers Of Scrape!

The month of March was quite interesting. A lot of great things happened for me and a few great CD’s came out this month. I gave away some cool prizes and the first batch of the MetalMartyr.Com Compilations went out as well. Below is a list of links to some of this months posts that I think are worth a re-run.
The RIAA is still relentless about screwing artist out of money they get from settlements from illegal, Read about it here
I gave a list of My top 10 songs and cds this year. Some are new and some are old …read more

Dimebag Hardware, a small clothing line dedicated to the memory of Dimebag Darrell Abbott is up and running at dimebaghardware.com. By clicking on the pictures of the t-shirts on the site it will take you directly to Guitarcenter.com where you can purchase the t-shirts at very fair prices. This is just the beginning of the clothing line and I expect more accessories and camouflage cargo shorts soon. A lot of people are going to say it’s another way to make money from a deceased metal icon. But I think it’s more of a way to pay tribute and show …read more

Hell no!There is no doubt that DragonForce’s Through The Fire And Flames is a song of insanely complicated guitar work and in the early 80’s every new kid playing guitar was out to learn Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption note for note. However Through The Fire And Flames to me may be a bit too long and overly noodled. I can’t play Eruption or TTFAF and I wouldn’t give either a try. If anything I consider myself a rhythm guitarist and the most complex licks I have probably ever made an effort to learn are the intro to Crazy Train, …read more

Damn, it’s been over three years and every other day we are still seeing news about Dimebag’s death and Rita Haney bitchin about Phil Anselmo and trying to point fingers for his murder. Enough of all this “He Said-She Said” BullShit already. You can call Phil what you want, you can blame anyone you please but it’s still not going to bring your boyfriend back, Rita. We would ALL like to believe that this is all a bad dream…but it’s not. Dimebag is gone and it’s time to move on.
We all say shit we regret every now and then and …read more

Yep, the time draws closer to Decemeber 8th. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years already. As you know Dimebag tributes, article and interviews are going to start crawling out of the wood work. I figured I’d knock mine out early by posting this older interview (November) with Dime’s former girlfriend “Rockin Rita”. Here are a few excerpts, you can read the entire interview at Metalmonthly.com
On Phil Anselmo:
Metal Monthly: Your Thoughts on Phil, is he a part of the problem or part of the solution?
Rita: Hahaha! He’s not our problem anymore! But seriously, I think people have …read more

Hard Attack, the all metal satellite radio channel will be celebrating Dimebag Darrell’s birthday on august 20th. For 24 hours it will be everything Dime. You should expect to hear stuff from Pantera, Damageplan, and Rebel Meets Rebel as well as all of Dime’s favorite bands. Below is the actual article from Sirius’s Hard Attack website:
Hard Attack’s 3rd Annual March of DIMEDAY
Mon 8/20 3 am ET – Tues 8/21 3 am ET

New Orleans metal act, Down has released the name a date for their upcoming record entitled Down III:Over The Under. This is the third record for the Louisiana band, featuring former Pantera (Superjoint Ritual) front man Phil Anselmo, former Pantera Bass player Rex Brown, Drummer Jimmy Bower of Eye Hate God, C.O.C. guitar/vocals Pepper Keenan, and Crowbar Guitarist Kirk Windstien. Below is an excerpt of an Interview conducted by Full Metal Racket with Pepper Keenan.