As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis and California frontman Ahhnold are back for round two with the release of AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE’s Double Brutal, the follow up to 2008’s highly successful (and, well, brutal) release, Total Brutal. With an appetite for all things barbarous, AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE ups the ante with Double Brutal. This two-disc goliath features one disc of all new heavy tracks in the tradition of all of Ahhnold’s greatest cinematic moments and a second disc of cover songs including songs originally performed by METALLICA, MEGADETH, MISFITS, JUDAS PRIEST and more, with cover art once again being tackled by Ed Repka (MEGADETH, DEATH, NOFX, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, etc).

A new audio clip featuring sneak peeks at tracks taken from Double Brutal is currently available on ADM’s MySpace page HERE. Check it out to get a taste of the sheer brutality that is set to devastate the world on September 29th Doom-thousand and Nine.

Comments AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE creator Tim Lambesis:

“Sometimes being stereotypically metal is fitting. I’m not trying to break new ground; I just want to break people’s necks…and have fun doing it”

For anyone who doubts the barbaric and brutal nature of Double Brutal, rest assured this album truly is doubly brutal. How can anyone argue Double Brutal’s pure savageness and testosterone filled manliness when you have Ahhnold, the strongest man in the universe and leader of many a mission filled with exploding chests, eyes bursting out of their sockets, and hands down the most classic one-liners you will ever hear, AND Tim Lambesis who can do a one armed push up while listening to Survivors ‘Eye of the Tiger’ (it’s true, I’ve seen it)?

Bottom line, AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE is still fast, still pissed, and still brutal.

Double Brutal features shed-a-riffic performances by:
• BILLY SHEEHAN (if you have to ask…)
• BUZ MCGRATH (UNEARTH)
• ANDREW TAPLEY (THE HUMAN ABSTRACT)
• JAMES GERICKE (DEATH BY STEREO)
• MARK MACDONALD (MERCURY SWITCH)
• ROCKY GRAY (LIVING SACRIFICE)
• RUSTY COOLEY (again, if you need to ask…)

Double Brutal track listing:
Disc 1
1. Double Ahhnold
2. I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle (from Terminator 2)
featuring guest shredding by Andrew Tapley
3. Let Off Some Steam Bennett (from Commando)
featuring guest shredding by Rusty Cooley
4. Who Writes the Songs? (The Real Bomb Track)
5. It’s Simple, If it Jiggles it’s Fat (from Pumping Iron)
featuring guest shredding by Andrew Tapley
6. See You at the Party Richter (from Total Recall)
featuring guest shredding by Chris Storey
7. Hey Cookie Monster, Nothing is as Brutal as Neaahhh
8. Who Told You You Could Eat My Cookies? (from Jingle All the Way)
featuring guest shredding by Mark MacDonald
9. Come on Cohaagen, Give Deez People Ehyar (from Total Recall)
featuring guest shredding by Buz McGrath
10. Who is Your Daddy, and What Does He? 2
11. Come on, Do it, Do it, Come on, Come on, Kill me, Do it Now (from Predator)
featuring guest shredding by Kris Norris
12. Allow Me To Break The Ice (from Batman & Robin)
featuring guest shredding by James Gericke
13. Conan, What is Best in Life? (from Conan the Barbarian)
featuring guest shredding by Rocky Gray & Jason Suecof

Disc 2
1. Intro to the Intro
2. T2 Theme
3. Hell Bent for Leather (from Terminator 2 / Judas Priest cover)
4. Time Travel: The Metallica Conspiracy
5. Trapped Under Ice (from Batman & Robin / Metallica cover)
6. Iron Fist (from Terminator / Motörhead cover)
7. Recalling Mars
8. I Turned into a Martian (from Total Recall / Misfits cover)
9. Killing is My Business…and Business is Good (from everything / Megadeth cover)
10. Tactically Dangerous – Cannibal Commando (from Commando / Goretorture cover)
11. Gotta Go (from Terminator / Agnostic Front cover)

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Darrell Lance Abbott was born August 20, 1966 to Carolyn and Jerry Abbott in Dallas, TX. His father owned a recording studio in Dallas, and as a child Darrell would be inspired by the many country and blues artists that he’d see come and go. Upon discovering Kiss, and more specifically guitarist Ace Frehley, Darrell became interested in heavy metal. Inspired, he started entering guitar talent competitions as a teenager. After winning pretty much everything he entered, he knew that his course was set. In the early 80’s, Darrell started going by the name “Diamond” and formed Pantera with his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul and bassist Rex Smith. With frontman Terry Glaze, the early glam metal style of Pantera was influenced by bands such as Def Leppard and Judas Priest. After releasing three albums (1983’s Metal Magic, 1984’s Projects in the Jungle, and 1985’s I Am the Night), Terry Glaze left the band.

Pantera then found a young singer by the name of Phil Anselmo, and the history of metal was changed forever. Disowning their three previous albums, Pantera began to reinvent their sound. In 1990, Cowboys from Hell was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, featuring a much heavier style. However, with their release of Vulgar Display of Power in 1992, Pantera cemented their position as legends of metal. In 1994, Darrell changed his name from “Diamond” to “Dimebag”. 1996’s The Great Southern Trendkill earned the band their first Grammy nomination for “Suicide Note, Pt. 1”, and 1997’s release of Official Live: 101 Proof earned them yet another Grammy nod for their live version of “Cemetery Gates”.

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Simply called “Dime” by most of his friends, Dimebag was known as the friendliest, most giving person most had ever met. Fans in Texas considered Dime to be the “people’s rock star”, as he was known to eat at chain restaurants and wave “hello” to fans while strolling through a local Target store. He was very approachable, and Dime never seemed to let stardom go to his head. Rarely seen without his favorite drink (called a “Black Tooth Grin“) in his hand, friends said that Dime lived his rock and roll lifestyle with grace. He enjoyed dousing his friends and family with gifts, and cherished the time that he spent with them. Dimebag Darrell was a class act.

In 2003, Pantera broke up, leading Dimebag and brother Vince to form Damageplan with Pat Lachman on vocals and bassist Bob Zilla rounding out the new band. In February, 2004, Damageplan released their debut album New Found Power, which sold 44,676 copies it’s first week, debuting at number 38 on the Billboard 200. Tragedy struck the night of December 8, 2004, when Damageplan took the stage at Alrosa in Columbus, OH.

During the band’s opening song, 25 year old Nathan Gale rushed across the stage and opened fire on Dimebag Darrell, hitting him several times and killing him instantly. Gale then killed three other people and wounded two more before being shot and killed by a Columbus police officer. I would write about his motives, but this article isn’t about the deranged man that murdered several people and took a legend from us, it’s about honoring one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Dimebag Darrell Abbott. His death has been covered, and while we still grieve for the loss of such a phenomenal brother… I believe that we should celebrate his life, and all that he gave to us in his years of performing.

RIP, Dime. We love you.

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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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As we all know, many metal bands get blamed for kids doing ridiculously stupid things, like killing others and themselves. So let’s look at probably one of the dumbest survivors of a metal-induced suicide. How do you try to commit suicide with a shotgun and fail. Kurt Cobain did it while completely O.D.’ing on a shit-load of heroine (debatable). I was reminded of this by whiplashwhiplashwhiplash.com, another metal blog featuring Mike Conte from Early Man and a few others that are probably just as important. It’s a cool blog to read. BTW, grab some popcorn, this one is almost an hour long.

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Regardless of his sexual preference, Halford and Priest are still, and always will be rock and metal icons. I wouldn’t expect Halford to release a gay biker clothing line any more than I would expect Judas Priest to release a disco album. With all that said and set aside, Rob Halford’s Metal God Apparel is quite honesty a lot of great t-shirt designs, though the prices are a bit ridiculous.

Similar to the Affliction clothing line that is ever so popular and often sort of copied, Metal God Apparel offers plenty of cool T-shirt designs. Will they sell like hot-cakes? I don’t know. I don’t have a clue how well this stuff sells and it has me wondering about the Dimebag Hardware clothing line and how well that is selling these days.

Check out Metal God Apparel. T-shirts are available for pre-order starting at $54.99…and no that’s not a typo.

(Image: Metal God Apparel)

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• 7/01 – The Family Arena – St. Charles, MO
• 7/02 – Summerfest, Harley Davidson Stage – Milwaukee, WI
• 7/03 – Taste Of Minnesota at Harriet Island – St. Paul, MN
• 7/07 – Comcast Center – Mansfield, MA
• 7/08 – CMAC – Canandaigua, NY
• 7/09 – Molson Amphitheatre – Toronto, ON
• 7/11 – PNC Banks Arts Center – Holmdel, NJ
• 7/12 – Nikon At Jones Beach Theater – Wantagh, NY
• 7/14 – Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre – Cleveland, OH
• 7/15 – DTE Eneryg Music Theater – Clarkston, MI
• 7/17 – Moondance Jam 18 – Walker, MN
• 7/18 – Rockfest/Chippewa Valley Music – Cadott, WI
• 7/21 – PNC Pavilion (Riverbend Music) – Cincinnati, OH
• 7/29 – California Mid-State Fair – Paso Robles, CA
• 7/31 – Sleep Train Pavilion – Concord, CA
• 8/01 – Sleep Train Amphitheatre – Marysville, CA
• 8/02 – Gibson Amphitheatre – Universal City, CA
• 8/04 – SDSU OPen Air Theatre – San Diego, CA
• 8/07 – Dodge Theater – Phoenix, AZ
• 8/08 – Thomas & Mack Center – Las Vegas, NV
• 8/10 – Sandia casino – Albuquerque, NM
• 8/11 – Red Rock Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO

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Classic Rock Magazine recently interviewed Glen Tipton of Judas Priest. The subject of some of the questions were Rob’s voice, criticism of Nostradamus and the decision of touring with Megadeth And Testament on Priest Feast. You can read the entire interview HERE, but here is my take on these three questions:

Judas Priest has been around for 30+ years. Even though Nostradamus was not an album that I listen to all the time, it’s still a great piece of music. It’s not Screaming For Vengeance or British Steel but it’s something different. A concept that the band wanted to do and you can’t really take that away from them. At times it seems drawn out but it’s still well put together.

Rob Halford is getting old. We know it, he knows it. He’s hit notes with his voice that a lot of metal singers, new and old could only dream of. Granted these days he may not be able to hit those same notes but he sounds good. If you catch a live show and then complain about how well he sung during said show, then you need to remember how many shows they do and how long the sets are. You don’t have to be very intelligent to understand that touring and singing in Rob’s style puts a hell of a strain on your voice.

Lastly, I don’t understand why anyone would complain about Judas Priest, Megadeth and Testament. Three legendary bands on one bill. The only complaint I have is that this didn’t happen in the states. Complaining about that line-up is like complaining about having a fun job that pays great. Sadly, someone always finds something to complain about.

By The Way…did anyone know that Metallica is now considered “Classic Rock”? Apparently they are because they are on the cover of the Magazine.

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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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Rob Halford

You can download the “Christmas Ride” mp3 from Halfordmusic.com. Follow that link and click on “Add to cart”. When you get to the next page click “Proceed to checkout”. After that you may have to sign up for a new customer account to complete the download.

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