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 favorites. Check them out. Metal Martyr Top 10

I had a chance to check out a great show the beginning of the month and I got video Interviews with All That Remains Phil Labonte (Part 1 and Part 2), Light This City’s Laura Nichol and Ben Murray, and Black Tide.

Metallica Is Reissuing older releases on Vinyl.

Creator Destructor Records is a label operated by Light This City’s Drummer Ben Murray. Starting small but sure to get much bigger.

The Metal Potential Of 2008 is going to be great with all the great bands releasing new work and touring this year.

Sub-genre Hatred is never ending. Do you hate Metalcore?

I did a review of Marc Canter’s Book Reckless Road, the first years of Guns N Roses. I also called Slash Saul Rosenburg when his real name is Saul Hudson. Must have heard The Jerky Boys say Saul Rosenburg a few too many times and it stuck in my head.

I did a quick interview with Troy Medlin (T-Roy) of Southern Sludge Metal Band Sourvein here.

Metal has never been really radio friendly except on satellite radio

Do you think DragonForce’s song Through The Fire And Flames compares to the classic Eddie Van Halen Solo song Eruption? Let me know.

Black Tide released Light From Above on Interscope records and the Cavalera brother reunited for the Cavalera Conspiracy. Is there a possibility of a Sepultura reunion?

I did a quick review on As I Lay Dying’s First Recordings on The Long March

I talked about My favorite Concert and stepped away from Metal for a moment and talked about Straight Edge Punk legends Minor Threat.

Dimebag Hardware Clothing Line is up and running.

In Flames Release A Sense Of Purpose tomorrow. I got a copy early and I love it!

Metal fans are like rabid Pitbulls and sometimes we turn on our own. Read about it in I Am Hated part 1 and Part 2.

That’s about it for the month of March. If you want to see what else got posted this month, Click here.

As for me, I’m going to take the rest of the evening easy, throw some new Ernie Balls on my Ibanez and play around a bit. See you next month and thanks for coming!

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Most people knew at least one guy that always showed up when you were trying to jam in a public place and wanted to show off how cool he was by playing Eruption. More power to them for taking the time to learn that song but I just don’t have that kind of patience to bother with that kind of guitar work. Save it for the talent show, buddy. I find it much more fun to just jam out on a bunch of power chords and make some bad ass rhythm lines. I’ve never taken any kind of lessons, learned any type of method and I have a ball doing what I do.

So back to the origin of the article. Like I said, while DragonForces Through The Fire And Flames is a wildly complicated tune and remarkably long enough to make an insomniac grow sleepy with it, it just will never have that same pizzazz that Eruption had and still has. The new 300th edition of Guitar World Magazine has 18…yeah, 18 pages of Through The Fire And Flames transcribed. To me that’s 18 pages that could have been used to transcribe 3 other songs…but I still bought the magazine. However there is a cd with a lot of classic Guitar World videos featuring guitar hero’s like Dave Mustaine, Dimebag Darrell, EVH, Zakk Wylde, Slash and Kerry King. Metallica’s Call Of Kthulu is transcribed as well. The Magazine goes through all 300 issues and summarizes each one. Other than 18 pages of Dragonforce, this is a pretty good issue.

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