This time of year there is never a surplus of time for anyone. Besides the snail speed flow of report worthy metal news this week, time just hasn’t been on my side. To keep things short, here are some significant things that went on the Metal since Friday.

• Machine Head’s Phil Demmel collapsed on stage again on Friday. This is the third time it’s happened and the second time it’s happened this year. Machine head has canceled the last tow shows on this leg of their tour and will be heading back top the states. Phil suffers from a rare heart condition called Cardiogenic Syncope. Wish him well as Machine Head will be heading back out on tour on Wednesday with Metallica and The Sword.
• Lacuna Coil has revealed the name of their next album as “Shallow Life” which will come out some time in 2009. For the record I, like many others still find Christina Scabbia extremely sexy.
• Chimaira is in the mixing stage of their follow up to Resurrection. I still haven’t heard of a release date for this yet.
• Job For A Cowboy parts way with guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju just as they’re are getting ready to hit the recording studio. No word a yet who will replace Bhadri…Bhadrij…Bhadji…him.
• Haste The Day has lost their drummer. Devin Chaulk has decided to move on after 8 years with the band and pursue active ministry with his family.
• Say It Ain’t So, Dave…Rumors are starting to flow over the net that the next run for Megadeth’s Gigantour will have bands on the bill such as Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet For My Valentine. I’ve never been to a Gigantour and unless it swings by my way I probably won’t go to one anytime soon. With that said I still feel for anyone that wants to go to see Megadave play and has to sit through those two bands. Let’s just hope that it’s a bad rumor. Hit up the Megadeth Forums and beg and plead with Dave not to let this travesty happen!

Post from: Metal Martyr

WWMIH shows an enormous amount of concert footage from arena headlining tour, Unholy Alliance tour, Ozfest and Gigantour, and behind the scenes footage through the documentary section on disc one. There is also full length live footage from the previously mentioned tours. On disc two you get The Making Of Sacrament, the entire Download Fest performance and behind the scenes of the Redneck Video as well as the full video.

You get all the fun stupidity of L.O.G. on tour in Walk With Me, and you also get a short look into the personal lives of the band members…with the exception of Chris Adler, who it seems has no personal life besides being an unbelievable drummer. Another thing I really like about this is that with the making of Sacrament among other times in the dvd, you get to see just how great L.O.G. are as musicians. Willie and Mark are both really great guitar players whether they down tune or not. It doesn’t matter, the more you watch and listen to them play throughout the dvd you get to see just how really good they are at what they do. Although the DVD seems extremely long (whereas I didn’t want Killadelphia to end), it’s fun every second of it and I highly recommend it. And if you just don’t feel like buying it or you don’t have the cash, then enter my contest for a chance to win a copy!

Post from: Metal Martyr

Headbangers Blog Children Of Bodom Interview

Post from: Metal Martyr

You can still get your preorder Blooddrunk here. Which is kind of stupid because the presale says they ship on the 30th?

Check out Children Of Bodom on Gigantour 2008 with Megadeth, Job For A Cowboy, In Flames, and High On Fire

Image Source: Amazon.com

Post from: Metal Martyr

“Revolver: Are any of you at all worried about how another band’s audience will receive your band on Gigantour?

Laiho: There’s always gonna be that one group of people, but you have to ignore that f*cking sh*t. ou can start crying about it in the microphone, but that just makes you look like a pussy.

Pike: There’s some people you could chop your own head off and throw it at them and they would still boo you.

Laiho: There are dudes that actually pay f*cking $30 just to get into the show to throw a bottle in my face.

Iwers: When people don’t like what I do, I just try to do it better, try to them that we’re good.

Mustaine: I get heckled by my own fans.”

The rest of the interview is great as well. If your willing to spend $4.99 for this interview and a peak at Light This City’s front-woman Laura Nichol, then pick it up. This is actually one of the better issues of Revolver as of late. There is another interview where All That Remains Front-man, Phil Labonte, interviews Sammy Hagar. Meshuggahs featured in it as well because of their recently released obZen cd on Nuclear Blast records. Peace.

Post from: Metal Martyr

“As we near the end of 2007 and my lovely Droogs Down Under celebrate 2008 already, we back here at the Mustaine House are reflecting on the last year. They are all laughing and joking and I have snuck off to make the last post of this year.

“Where do I start? With the excitement of the new record or the disappointment of the empty promises and failure to deliver at so many turns? The electricity of being on tour with young hot new bands and the atmosphere of things to come, or the drone of old-school politics on tour and petty production games by the other bands and the other headliners? The breakthroughs with our lineup, the breakdowns with our crew, or the breakups of our ‘Cosa Nostra?’

“Yessiree, where do I start?

“Well, outside of all things MEGA, we have had the successful launch of my wife’s coffee company Legends Of Cup Coffee, Inc. and that alone will save millions in Starbucks allowance for me, and the brand new baby — TheLiveLine.com — and I am thrilled about its potential!

“I did have some truly disappointing moments, like when Matsje delivered my fantastic colt Zane this summer, only to die five months later from colic. I had a PTSD moment taking me back to Cassandra (my mare that I had before Matsje, who also died — but this time during delivery) from years past, but I was able to walk it out without losing it this time.

“And there was the toy drive that the good people of Hasbro, and my bud Elaine had helped me to provide a little relief to the families of San Diego County with little ones who have lost their toys in the fires, and the my management and the church I attend making sure that the Marines and the various churches and the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce had gotten the nearly ten pallets of toys that we were able to purchase with the proceeds of the launch of Legends Cup Coffee.

“My partner and bassist, James Lomenzo, has moved down here with his lovely wife Angie and their ubër-kewl daughter Zowie, and we are working quite often in the studio in my house. We have a load of stuff to tell you coming up, but I have to depart to attend to my New Year’s Eve guests.

“I love you all and please go to the Gigantour.com tonight for the announcement of the line-up for Gigantour 2008 North America, as well as the upcoming announcement of the line up for the European tour and the potential Gigantour 2008 UK.

“I will be leaving a new message on my TheLiveLine.com number tonight and I will be leaving a very important message you won’t want to miss in the next few days.

“So, to each and every Droogie around the world, this new year belongs to all of us and let’s make this a year that we look back on and say was one of the greatest years of our lives!”

As if the rumors and leaks flying around didn’t already give it away, The line up for 2008’s Gigantour has been officially announced. The line up is as follows.

Megadeth, In Flames, Job For A Cowboy, Children Of Bodom, and High On Fire. Only 5 bands this year.

Post from: Metal Martyr

“Droogies!

This is the last weekend I will be at my home until Thanksgiving. It was two Thanksgivings ago that my life felt upside down from the separation, and celebrating Thanksgiving alone in a hotel. Needless to say, I wanted to take the time today to put up all the ghosts and goblins around our house with the kids, because I am going to miss out on Halloween with them and All Saints Day, too. But this time, it is for the right reasons.

Fortunately, our neighborhood is safe; except the mad-escaping-black lab-crapping machine. And I would like to say that the time at home has been restful and enjoyable, but it hasn’t been. We have been struggling with the DVD and I have never been so completed stumped in my life. Why this is happening and by whom to whom and because of why is a mystery to me! Sometimes I think that this is just some kind of a joke, and I hope it is at the end of the gag, but there is no punch-line.

At the least the audio is fantastic! I heard songs by Megadeth, Lamb of god, Opeth, Arch Enemy, and Overkill from G.2006’s NA line-up, and Andy Sneap is doing a great job. You may remember, those of you with the new record, that Andy is the engineer and mixer from United Abominations. Usually, there is a getting used to each other period when you do a record, but since Andy and I have mutual respect for each other, we work well together.”

lick here for the full article at Megadeth.com

Image Source

Post from: Metal Martyr

“Today is Monday and there is one week left before we leave for Alaska. We will come home after that for 16 days and then it is off to the Pac Rim, and eventually to Australia, to start this awesome line-up of Gigantour 2007 in Australia, better known as G.2007.OZ!

“I know not everyone here is a MEGADETH or Dave Mustaine fan, but hopefully that will change after we play for you, or better yet, meet with you, and until then chat and post with you here.

“I don’t use slang or abbr. much, due to there being so many ages and different nationalities here. I want to be as clear with what I say so that our friends around the rest of the world that cannot come see us, can ‘live out’ the concert through you loyal metal fans; through your ears and eyes, through the one thing that we all have in common — love for this kind of music!.

“Gigantour this year will consist of four bands again, as you may have seen the way we did it on our ‘Maiden Voyage’ last year. We played with Max Cavalera and his band SOULFLY, Michael and Angela of ARCH ENEMY, and the guys from CALIBAN (which I didn’t get a chance to hang out with as much as I would have liked to) in 2006, and while I think most musicians dream of playing in ‘exotic, far-away places,’ the Aussie audience, it is something to be reckoned with. I mean beautiful tan faces of guys and girls of all ages, rugged lads and lasses from all over the Island, and they have such a ‘Don’t-fuck-with-me-and-I-won’t-fuck-with-you’ attitude in the pit, that while it seems friendly, there is also a very powerful and intimidating energy that you know could light a small city and it could change into a fire-breathing dragon!

“Whew!!!

“Seeing the guys in STATIC-X should be interesting because we haven’t seen them since we last toured in the ’90s and they were just converging on the metal scene – from my knowledge, that is. I also am friends with Dez from DEVILDRIVER and we met years ago when he was in COAL CHAMBER and Sharon Osbourne managed them. Dez

“And how can I forget promises to sit me down with a good bottle of wine, and there’s no better place so far, since I really like Australia Shiraz (but what the hell do I know — as long as it doesn’t say ‘Maddog 20-20‘ on it I am good). LACUNA COIL? I think that everyone will be expecting Ms. Scabbia to join me/us to sing ‘A Tout Le Monde‘ and while I hope that happens, I haven’t asked her yet, so keep your fingers crossed!

“Lastly, to the good people of Perth, as you know many years ago MEGADETH first came to Australia, and it was great! We fell in love with Oz, and we thought we were coming back soon after our first trip there; we just needed to get through Japan.

“Well, that is were the aforementioned Dragon of Oz first popped up, and we had to cancel Australia because someone (not me) ran out of illegal, medical type, sniffing or casually injectable street powder! So, naturally the blame was on us, (me, really and i wasn’t the one who ran out!) and it was bad. We didn’t return for a great many years.

“This time though, I remember playing with so much passion and excitement on Gigantour 2006 OZ. I have never felt so loved and anticipated by the Aussie fans in all my years of our records being available down under; from the several concerts we have played, to the ‘almost self-imposed prison’ we damn near put ourselves into. Yes, I am thrilled to come back to Australia, and especially to go to Perth: it almost isn’t a real OZ Tour if you can’t do both sides of the country. I mean it is nice, but Australia is about as old as the USA and about as big, and it would be like only playing NY, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and thinking that that is a US tour?!?!

“There is also going to be a celebration of sorts, because I can remember walking down a street to dinner with our partner, A.J. Maddah, in Australia for Gigantour for 2006 and 2007, and we were talking about the subject matter that makes up the song Amerikhastan. A.J. is a genius and we had some very stimulating conversations, some of which was about the Statue of Liberty, some on Halliburton’s involvement, some on the republican scandal with young pages’ pants being pulled down ‘in secret,’ by some guys ‘in the Senate’ and ‘in the House of Representatives,’ or more apropos, ‘in the closet,’ and how some democrats don’t care, and will pull anyones pants down.

“So, that’s it for me for the week. Stay tuned as we get the other bands aware of this great community here, and get the band-members, webmasters, and entire entourage with them, including all of the online fan-bases feeling welcome here.

“It is my personal invitation to become part of this forum and help us spread the cheer internationally of Gigantour as we all have a hand in building a festival for international metal fans around the world.

“There is also plenty of solid official MEGADETH information that can be found on us and about Gigantour that may not have been posted here yet, so please also check Megadeth.com, Myspace.com/megadeth, Gigantour.com, and Davemustaine.com (coming soon).

“Time for my morning coffee – I love you guys, and will see you soon!!!

“Aussie Aussie Aussie!”

Looks to be a pretty cool tour…with the exception of Statix X. If anyone makes it to Gigantour this year, I’d like to share your experience here at Metalmartyr.com.

Post from: Metal Martyr

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) has announced that they have been working on the line-up for Gigantour and are about halfway done.

A lot of crazy shit has been happening at and around Ozzfest this year, a few deaths at, leaving and going to Ozzfest, But the latest news is that about 83 moshers were arrested by police at a New Jersey Ozzfest. Police apprehended the moshers if they were flailing their arms in a away that looked to be dangerous to others. Would someone please tell the police that mosh-pits are not for catching butterflies and bunny rabbits but rather bloody noses and black eyes. People enter them at their own risk, don’t you guys have some child sex predators to catch or something?

The bible-throwing bumble bees of Stryper are making a new record is anyone cares.

Ladies! You can be a Hell Yeah girl find out more here.

The art work for the upcoming Megadeth Warchest was featured on Reuters giant Times Square display in NYC several times yesterday. Check out a photo of it here.

Metallica Bass player Robert Trujillo say that no previously performed songs will be on the upcoming record.

Phil Anselmo will be placing installments on Down’s myspace site about the band for the fans. You can check out the first installment here

Hatebreed’s new video for the Supremacy song Destroy Everything has become and instant fan favorite on their myspace site. This is one of my favorites too. Supremacy is one of best CD’s to listen to when I work out. Check it out here.

As if Kiss didn’t have enough merchandise out there on the market, a Kiss Rubicks Cube will be coming out. Looks pretty cool.

Image source: Kiss online

Post from: Metal Martyr