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With that said, there is also this to say: May 31st will be my last day with Metal Martyr. It’s been a fun [almost] two years of bitching, ranting, misspellings, grammar butchering, hatred, (sometimes senseless) negativity and most important of all interacting with readers both seldom and avid. You guys kick ass and it’s been a pleasure. Between now and then I’ll try to update as often as time allows. The contest is still on and I’ll still announce it on my way out the door. Now, with all that said, here’s a few key things happening in metal today.

An Iron Maiden Flight 666 Online Video game cane be played at Ironmaiden.com. I haven’t played it yet but it has to be much better than Ed Hunter.

Judas Priest have announced that they will be releasing a live album of previously unreleased live tracks. That means they’ve never released the songs AS live tracks.

The Boy Will Drown’s debut album, Fetish is out now in Europe. This is like that technical deathcore type shit. It’s not bad but it can become redundant as every songs kind of sounds the same.

Mikael Akerfeldt doesn’t Facebook and he wants you to know this.

Sorry, folks but that’s all I have time for tonight. Peace.

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Iron Maiden

“The Iron and the Maiden legal team believes that this case is completely without merit. It is outrageous to claim ownership of the well-known term ‘Iron Maiden,’ a medieval torture device that predates rock and roll by centuries and is part of world culture, legend, and lore.

“The comic book at the center of this case, ‘Iron and the Maiden’, is set in an alternate universe 1930s. The main character, Michael Iron, and his maiden, Angel Chase, are two very different characters forced together by circumstances. The title is a play on the torture device. Any rational person who looks at the property at www.ironandthemaiden.com will immediately understand how ridiculous the assertions made in the complaint are.”

I’d have to agree with the comic company. Anyone in their right mind isn’t going to confuse a legendary metal band with a comic book of a similar name that is drawn from a torture device. If it was another metal band using the Iron And The Maiden name, then perhaps they would have a viable complaint. Granted, the comic book logo looks like it say “Iron Maiden” if you don’t initially see “And The” between the names, but still.

Everyone is just so damn lawsuit happy these days.

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I was in my mid teens, working as a dishwasher during the time. My coworkers were all in to the grunge thing and were neo-hippies to boot. We had a prep room where we would prep food and had a cd player in there to listen to music while we worked. I would often get ridiculed for my music and get the typical “Kill your mother, kill your father!” mocking when they walked in to the prep room while I was working. I would either turn it up louder or change it to something a little heavier, darker or evil sounding. I didn’t mind grunge so much, but disliked a lot of people that listened to it for their total lack of having an open mind. Most of them were in to it because it was the popular thing at the time.

During that time you had to already be an established band or release an album of epic proportion in order to survive. Even the ones that struggled or didn’t pull through during that era still live in our hearts. The bands on this list were the ones that survived by releasing truly amazing work and deserve the recognition. I know I’ve missed a load of albums that deserve to be on a list of this sort, but keep in mind it’s just “10 Metal Albums” and not a “Top 10″ list.

Flotsam And Jetsam: Cuatro. Released in 1992, Flotsam And Jetsam were a radio hit band and had already been on the scene for almost 10 years when Cuatro was released. Their fourth album and their fourth bass player, Cuatro took a slight step away from their the thrash metal roots. Often overlooked and forgotten about, Cuatro was and still is a great album.

Anthrax: The Sound Of White Noise: (1993) Anthrax’s first album with, in my opinion their best singer, John Bush previously of Armored Saint, The Sound Of White Noise had so many killer songs on it. Beginning with Potter’s Field, Only, Room For One More, Packaged Rebellion, the list goes on until the end.

Iron Maiden: Fear OF the Dark. Released in 1992, Fear Of The Dark is never considered one of Maiden’s best albums but it’s not their worst. Sure it may not be a classic like most of the 80’s albums, but it was one of their best of the 90’s and has plenty of great tunes on it. This was also Bruce Dickenson’s last album before his return to the band in 1999.

Death: Individual Thought Patterns. Death’s 3rd release in the 90’s came in 1993 with Individual Thought Patterns. I bigger, cleaner sounding album than any one before it. ITP was my first taste of exceptionally technical death metal. If there is one subgenre of a subgenre you could label Death as, it would be Progressive Death Metal. Chuck Schuldiner always raised the bar a little higher with each album, but Individual thought patterns took it up a few notches.

Carcass: Heartwork. In 1993 Carcass were criticized by a lot of long time fans as breaking away from the grindcore sound and heading in more of a death metal direction. You can actually hear that transition in Necrotism, but regardless of what specific sound direction Heartwork took, the sound was amazingly clean, fast and ferocious. Still quite underground and unrecognized by the outside world, their Heartwork video put them on the map all around the world.

Entombed: Wolverine Blues. Another album criticized by their fans due to a lesser death metal feel and more of a “Death N’ Roll” sound to it, Wolverine Blues was still a great album. It may not have been fast but it was still heavy as all hell and punchy enough to be a classic. The title track and others such as Hollowman, Full Of Hell and Out Of Hand, you can’t go wrong with this album.

Suffocation: Pierced From Within: Suffocation released their last album for a long time in 1995. Pierced from within was the best sounding album of their first 3. The production was cleaner and Roadrunner Records was taking off like a bat out of hell. Unfortunately this was almost the end of Suffocation as touring as a death metal band at this time was barely livable income. 9 years later the legacy would begin again.

Fear Factory: Soul Of A New Machine. Before Nu-Metal actually had a name there were bands like NIN and Fear Factory releasing albums in the early 90’s. I don’t think it was until Korn’s self titled release that people started to truly hate what was to become a monster mainstream metal genre. Soul Of A New Machine was just considered a new metal band with their first major label release. Not an album that catapulted them in to the nu-metal world like Demanufacture, but a great album.

Helmet: Meantime. Helmet’s 1992 release introduced a slightly different sound to the metal scene. Coming out of NYC, The post hardcore band still brought a slight hardcore sound to them with stop-and-go riffs that were heavy enough to be called metal and a sound that was still raw enough to keep them out of the mainstream. Most people can only name one song from Helmet, that being Unsung.

Sepultura: Chaos A.D. Another band that was raising the bar with every release was Sepultura. With a consistently small change of sound to each album, Sepultura released, arguably their best album with Chaos A.D. in 1993. This was also a turning point as we saw more down-tuning that ultimately lead to Roots, the worst album of the Cavalera, Sepultura era.

Metal never died during the grunge era and it was never mainstream. Hair metal/glam rock was sort of mainstream, but the metal we love with the ferocity, controversy and darkness was still well underground. If anything Grunge did us a favor by decimating glam and weeding out the bands that weren’t quite good enough to make it. Sadly there were some bands that were good enough but fell to the mass-marketing of grunge. No big label wanted to sign another metal band when grunge was the money maker. Lucky for a lot of metal bands there was still the independent labels like Roadrunner, Metal Blade and Nuclear Blast that knew that grunge was only a fad and believed in their metal bands and fans. Every genre has it’s fads and trends, but sooner or later they die or fade away and the true warriors and torch bearers of that genre keep marching strong. The rest end up on VH1 classics…

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Below are only some of the details for Iron Maiden Flight 666. If you’d like to know more about the release visit IronMaiden.com

The film FLIGHT 666 is being released in the following manner:

Long-play Blu-ray with FLIGHT 666: THE FILM  and FLIGHT 666: The Concert (215 minutes)*

Double DVD
Disc One: FLIGHT 666 : THE FILM (112 minutes)  
Disc Two: FLIGHT 666 : The Concert (104 minutes)*

Plus Limited Edition Deluxe Double DVD of the above with special packaging and 30 page booklet

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album – Double CD*

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album – Limited Edition Double Vinyl Picture Disc

FULL TRACK LISTING
for the bonus *concert footage on DVD and Blu-ray, plus the double Live Soundtrack CD

(CD 1)

• ACES HIGH
  Bandra Kurla Complex/Mumbai, India
  February 1, 2008
• 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
  Rod Laver Arena/Melbourne, Australia
  February 7, 2008
• REVELATIONS
  Acer Arena/Sydney, Australia
  February 9, 2008
• THE TROOPER
  Makuhari Messe/Tokyo, Japan
  February 16, 2008
• WASTED YEARS
  Arena Monterrey/Monterrey, Mexico
  February 22, 2008
• THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
  The Forum/Los Angeles, USA
  February 19, 2008
• CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS
  Foro Sol/Mexico City, Mexico
  February 24, 2008
• RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
  Izod Center/New Jersey, USAMarch 14, 2008

(CD 2)

• POWERSLAVE
  Saprissa Stadium/San Jose, Costa Rica
  February 26, 2008
• HEAVEN CAN WAIT
  Palmeiras Stadium/Sao Paulo, Brazil
  March 2, 2008
• RUN TO THE HILLS
  Simon Bolivar Park/Bogota, Colombia
  February 28, 2008
• FEAR OF THE DARK
  Ferrocarril Oeste Stadium/Buenos Aires, Argentina
  March 7, 2008
• IRON MAIDEN
  Pista Atletica/Santiago, Chile
  March 9, 2008
• MOONCHILD
  Coliseo de Puerto Rico/San Juan, Puerto Rico
  March 12, 2008
• THE CLAIRVOYANT
  Pedreira Paulo Leminski/Curitiba, Brazil
  March 4, 2008
• HALLOWED BE THY NAME
  Air Canada Centre/Toronto, Canada
  March 16, 2008

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Here is how you can win: Since the 7″ has an Iron Maiden “Cover” on it, let’s do this: Artist Derek Riggs has done countless artwork for Iron Maiden over the years. From tour flyers to posters to album covers, he’s been responsible for bringing Eddie to life in so many different ways. On every piece of his work he leaves his mark. For that average Maiden fan, we know what it looks like and have spent much time looking for it in every piece of Derek’s work. So here is a 3 part question that you must answer all of them correctly to win the prize:

Where on each of these covers can you find Derek Riggs’ “trademark symbol”?

1. Iron Maiden’s 1980 single cover for Sanctuary.

2 Iron Maidens 1980 single cover for Running Free.

3. Iron Maiden’s debut, self titled album cover.

Email the answers to metalmartyr.com@gmail.com with Black Tide in the subject line. Make sure there is no links in the email body or else Gmail may filter it as spam. If there are multiple entries that get right I will pick a winner at random. Good luck.

Contest limited to U.S. and Canadian residents only. Contest ends on April 30th.

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Americans riot over Guns N’ Roses. Columbians riot over Iron Maiden. How foolish does that make us look? When you have 111 Columbians that didn’t or couldn’t buy tickets to see Iron Maiden, things heat up. I imagine there was actually more people than that and they only arrested 11 people.

The Latin Tribune Reports:

The report said that about 25,000 people attended the Saturday evening concert in Simon Bolivar Park, “however, the embarrassing acts perpetrated by a group of malcontents who wanted to enter without tickets” ruined the social scene in the area around the venue.

They even said a Columbian police officer was injured to the point where he had to have reconstructive surgery on his face. I guess I can understand people wanting to see Iron Maiden because they don’t tour the South Americas much, but damn, let’s be a little civilized about it.

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A slight case of sleeplessness brings you this early edition of the Scrap Metal Report today. Just a few things to run down in the news.

God Forbid are streaming their entire new record, Earthsblood on their Myspace. Earthsblood sees it’s release on century Media on February 24th.

Hatebreed guitarist Sean Martin has decided to resign from his duties in the Connecticut hardcore band. No details on the circumstances of is decision but there doesn’t seem to be any bad blood. Original guitarist Wayne Lozinak will step back in to the band to fill Sean’s vacant spot.

Tool Guitarist Adam Jones and Bass player Justin Chancellor have started to write new material for the follow up to 2006’s 10,000 Days. No word yet on any estimated time frame for that release.

Iron Maiden’s last show of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008/’09 will be at Ft. Lauderdale Florida. This will close out this epic tour and will be the first time Maiden has played in Florida in 13 years.

Lastly, I have 2 pairs of tickets for Scion Rock Fest for February 28th in Atlanta, Georgia and only one request so far. I have to close this out at the end of the day, so if you want to go visit here and put your name in the hat.

Check back throughout the day for more updates.

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