Holy shit it’s been forever since I did a Metal Shavings bit. I’ve been covering so much press releases and such lately that I have lacked the human side of this site. My opinion is my outlet on things that are wrong, right or indifferent. And like everyone else I have to get shit off of my chest. Let’s see what we have on our platter tonight…
Anheuser Busch settled it’s lawsuits with the families of victims of the 2003 Station nightclub fire, paying 21 million dollars as opposed to going any further with legal actions and fees. How the hell …read more

Lets face it, if it wasn’t for make-ups, break-ups, and line-up changes in bands we wouldn’t have a lot of the great music we have today from different bands. Line up changes is often a necessity for a band to survive and thrive. Metallica is the band that everyone loves to hate and hates to love. I hope Rick Rubin can bring them back to there roots. With all the trash I’m talking about the band you’d expect me to want them to fail miserably but that’s just not the case.

I’m going to touch base on a band, no wait, The band that always gets people fired up and that’s exactly what I plan on doing right now. Metallica. Perhaps one of the greatest heavy metal bands of our time that pioneered the way for metal to go more mainstream and to gain enormous popularity. We all know the history so I need not explain.
Anyway, here we are in 2007. In March Metallica finally starts recording the as always highly anticipated new record. Exit Bob Rock (been a long time coming if you ask me), enter Rick Rubin. Where will …read more