April 28th, 2008
Ministry head honcho Al Jourgensen recently sat down for a lengthy video interview with MP3.com. Filmed in Al’s hotel room on the eve of the band’s final performance in San Francisco, the chat centers on the end of Jourgensen’s long-running band, and what, exactly, he plans to fill his time with post-Ministry. Aside from a […]
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February 10th, 2008
The Metal and Hard Rock segments of The Grammy’s never get aired on tv. Honestly I’m sure that none of you, nor me feels like sitting through all the other B.S. in the meantime to see which artist that was nominated gets the damn awards. If you want to see who wins the metal […]
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December 24th, 2007
I have dumped a bunch of money into CDs this past year, probably more than I have in a long time. I have discovered and re-discovered bands that I’ve been missing out on and was even introduced to new music by record labels that sent me CDs to review (Thanks Bob at Prosthetic and Taylor […]
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December 18th, 2007
Ok, so you guys saw my Holiday office party by invitation only list, well the other music channels at b5 did it as well. Check out who some of the others invited. They may not be Metal (Some of them are), but they are interesting.
Bruce At Our Digital Music said he’d invite Robert Plant so […]
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November 12th, 2007
I figured I’d start the British Invasion week out with the band most call the pioneers of Heavy Metal. Honestly, what can I say about Black Sabbath that hasn’t already been said.
Black Sabbath originated out of Birmingham England in 1968 as a blues and rock band under the names Polka Tulk Blues Company and Earth. […]
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November 2nd, 2007
If you haven’t already heard, a local county sheriff in Fargo, North Dakota set up a sting operation where they sent out invites to a bunch of deadbeat dads and people who had warrants out on them. The invite was from a fake promo company, created by the sheriffs dept. inviting the people to come […]
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October 21st, 2007
Wow, it feels like it’s been forever since I did one of these. I’ve posted quite a bit this month and good old Metal Shavings has been neglected…frankly because there hasn’t been in my opinion, been any real good news in metal…a few tid bits here and there but nothing on a large scale lately. […]
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October 14th, 2007
Not yet, but according to an article at Ultimate Guitar He’d love to do another BS album. Here is an excerpt from the UG.com article. And yes, I know this is a few days old.
–”Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he’d love to record another Black Sabbath album.
Osbourne has not featured on one of the band’s […]
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October 13th, 2007
Do you ever think about things and ask yourself, “What If_____?”
Like What if there Dave Mustaine was never kicked out of Metallica and there was no Megadeth. What would Metallica be like these days. Or perhaps what would Heavy metal be like if there was no Metallica in the first place. Now I know metal […]
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July 21st, 2007
In some news lately, Korn revealed that they are going to be working on a cover album. Cover albums are great because we all love to hear our favorite bands covering other people songs…but why does it seem that bands tend to put out cover albums when all else is in the crapper?
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