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TIM “RIPPER” OWENS BOOTED OUT ON HIS ASS… AGAIN

  • Axl Rosenberg
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At the risk of sounding condescending to a dude who got to fulfill his childhood dream of recording and touring with his favorite metal band of all time and had his life bastardized and turned into a really shitty movie starring an Oscar nominee and a sitcom star, I gotta say: I feel really bad for Tim “Ripper” Owens.

I mean, things seemed to be going so well for Iced Earth: their latest album, Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked was getting rave reviews, it was selling surprisingly well, and while the video for the lead single, “Ten Thousand Strong,” is just about the silliest, cheapest piece of dung I’ve ever seen (see below), Headbanger’s Ball showed it at least three weeks in a row, which is really all the success you can wish for for a metal video these days.

And yet, Iced Earth didn’t hesitate for a second to kick Owens out of the band so they could bring back Matt Barlow. ‘Cause I guess a classic line-up will always sell more tickets than a latter-day line-up. And I’m not a big enough Iced Earth fan to give a shit one way or another, I’m just saying: Owens is a talented dude and I feel bad that he has been permanently condemned to a replacement spot.

Oh well. Maybe if Dan Nelson doesn’t work out, the Ripmeister can fill the Anthrax slot until Joey Belladonna or John Bush inevitably return.

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-AR

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