Job well done, keep’em coming!

Greetings and salutations from a Dutchman

wow wtf lets just call half of our fellow countrymen stupid. Seriously Dallas im a fan of God Forbid (huge fan actually) and it saddens me to hear someone who I support call me stupid for not voting for some elitist douchebag (John Kerry). I would never call anyone stupid for voting for someone I didnt like. When the new LP drops i have to seriously consider whether I want to part with my hard earned cash just to see it end up in the pocket of someone who thinks im stupid. And considering that im an evil racist, sexist, bigoted (usual stereotypes) conservative who believes in rewarding people for their hard work i cannot steal your music via the internet either.

woah woah. The question is: did you vote for Bush out of fear or optimism? Hindsight is always 20/20. I didn’t vote for Kerry either. I prefer the Jesse Ventura vote: No Confidence.

I’m seriously considering writing my own name in on the ballot this November because it’s outrageous and it is a democracy.

John Kerry Elitist? Also, I prefer you have the music then not. If you don’t want to buy it in a record store, by all means download it. The band doesn’t see the money for a record bought in a store. BEst Buy, Century Media does… So it makes no difference to me in that sense.

I’m not calling you stupid. It takes more than one person to vote a person into office. I didn’t vote because NJ votes overwhelmingly Democratic and I knew Kerry was going to lose. Not because of elitism but because most Americans are afraid of their own shadow.

I also don’t believe in liberal or conservative. That’s a cop out label. People are both. Your views on most things are conservative (maybe) but I doubt every position you have is based in conservative ideals. What happened to being an individual and not applying yourself to a certain demographic? Did you notice the call to blacks for not using violence as a means power or an excuse because of the white man holding them down? Maybe not.

With $4 a gallon gas who wins? $4 a gallon gas turns middle income people into poor people. How much is the Bush Dynasty worth? Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same eagle. Fuck them both. With Hillary Clinton supplying the GOP with their talking points these days who can give a shit when gas is that expensive. The gas will hurt metal in general because it won’t allow bands like us to tour because diesel is up to 4.50 per gallon.

Also, the war was always a bad idea from the get go. Bush being a trigger happy cowboy has put our nation in bad times. The American way of the past is going the way of the dodo bird. It’s not long before the people will be fighting for their land again.

The 2nd amendment was and still is the best amendment we have and i intend to use it as everyone should to protect those dearest to you. Am I conservative because I completely defend and protect the 2nd amendment?

@cisco: Do your moral convictions not include helping the less fortunate? How about objecting to an unnecessary war based on lies and solely created to line the pockets of the Texas-based oil company CEOs (I’m a Texan, BTW)? Providing an equal opportunity for all Americans to succeed? Not forcing a certain set of religious ideals down a population’s throat? Not allowing unwanted children to grace the face of this earth and be a burden on society?

And really, gay marriage? Why are you so concerned where a man puts his cock or a woman sticks her tongue? As long as the recipient is a consenting adult, who gives a fuck?

if you wanna blame anyone for high gas prices, you can squarly lay blame on environmentalist wackos who block any attempt to build any new refineries and drill for oil on US soil (ANWR and offshore drilling in the gulf). and also blame china and india for joining the 21st century the chinese especially have gone bonkers with SUV’s. and dont forget the insane taxes our beloved congress critters make off the gas prices.

Americans voted a fool back into office because the Democrats nominated an extremely weak candidate. It’s almost as if the Republicans handpicked their opponent.

“Arguing over which politician or party is more hypocritical or corrupt is like arguing over what kind of shit stinks worse.”

I couldn’t have said it better… :)

You’re going to Mokena? That’s awesome. Were filming part of a DVD. It’s Question and answer sort of thing. If you want to be involved hit me up with your info. We’d rather there be different types of views out there. Otherwise it’s just boring!

The DVD is called God Forbid and Other Extremists.

You can be an extremist if you want. We are!

I think Mo has been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh. Everything the guy has said is completely factually wrong. But he aligns himself with Conservatives so that makes sense.

My favorite is the whole “John Kerry elitist” thing. Who the hell is more “elitest” than a guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has been given everything he ever wanted, including a way out of the war so he didn’t have to serve, who now has “cut our taxes” and, as a result, has put us into insurmountable debt. I’m tired of Conservative “moral convictions” and “fiscal responsibility” that are slowly selling us all off to China, who will one day own this country thanks to the Conservative Reign Of error. It’s amazing how much these guys preach about common sense without knowing a goddamn thing about it.

We will never progress as a society and strengthen our country until we do away with the Conservative menace. So go ahead and make your childish, ignorant, “Communist this, Socialist that, liberal liberal liberal…” remarks that mean nothing and only make you look like an idiot. Fortunately the country is waking up and realizing that Conservatism is bankrupting our nation and robbing us of our Liberty.

I love my Country. And that’s why the Conservatives need to go.

As long as you’re considerate of other sources (a statement should to some extent be held in esteem because of it’s actual merit, not author), it doesn’t matter if musicians talk politics. If they use their status as a vehicle for saying a particular view is correct, that’s when I don’t like musicians talking politics! Their status is great for highlighting what’s wrong and inspiring people. If you enjoy listening to the music, and what someone [you respect] says interests you, it will more than likely inspire you to act on something or at least research your position/beliefs. I suspect more musicians than not profess a challenge view point which everyone can gain from adopting – apathy and blind faith of someone/something is one of our biggest problems.

Dallas your articles are great partly just for putting a view of change and challenge out there and inspiring some fuckers, irrespective of particular politics. Also it’s cool to hear the background on albums and progress!

And feel for the UK, we’re facing about $10 (Imperial) $8.50 (US) gallon prices, but I accept getting across the UK as opposed to the US is a little less distance ;)

ugh. it all starts with love and respect. if you’re too chickenshit to base your life on those two things, then kill yourself. Or at least stay away from metal. The definition of ‘metal’ is love and respect.

Dallas, see you in Mokena. Play loud.

@amy

Oh and one more thing, I don’t think that Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Chimaira, Pantera or most black metal bands got that memo:

‘The definition of ‘metal’ is love and respect’.

Go suck a twat dyke!

@cisco: You have made it painfully obvious that you don’t get caught up in politics until election time. Maybe because you were pulling my bunched up panties out of your ass.

I’m curious how you justify the killing of more than 600,000 innocent Iraqi civilians to go after one person who had neither weapons of mass destruction nor presented an immediate or future threat to the United States of America? Not to mention the fact that going after Saddam was not the first, second, or even third excuse your sycophantic, “Commander-in-Cheat” coughed up as an excuse to invade a foreign country.

I agree. Many people need to be killed. Unfortunately, plenty of them hide behind platitudes of being “patriotically correct.”

As for the rest of your blather, it’s time to put away your Republican Talking Points notebook, turn off Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, wipe that Rush Limbaugh off your face, and get a fucking clue.

If you are so gung-ho about assassinating so-called “bad guys,” why don’t you start with your lecherous boss’s butt buddies, the Saudi Arabian amirs and princes? Because, hmmm, as a good soldier you should remember that thirteen of the nineteen 9-11 hijackers/mass murderers were from Bush’s favorite country. Yet, your party’s figurehead feels it is acceptable to walk hand-in-hand together through the rustic wasteland of Crawford, Texas with Arabian elites.

Not to mention the fact that your Republican god, Ronald Reagan signed away all of the Texas oil reserves to the Saudis and struck deals with them during the 80′s so we could have “cheaper fuel.” Sure did Houston a lot of good, didn’t it? You know, that once thriving metropolis that has turned into a cesspool comparable to Detroit with its high unemployment rates, increased crime levels, rampant drug abuse, gangland violence — both organized and street-level. That’s what happens when you drive out the number one economic producer out of your backyard so you can make more money for your rich, right-wing cronies.

But, hey, I would much rather have a president who I can drink a beer with. I mean, c’mon, that’s what’s really important. Even if he is a transplanted Nor’easterner with pseudo-Texan wannabe syndrome who couldn’t clear brush with Death’s scythe.

Republicans — we care about babies — at least until they are born.

whoa i have to ‘go suck a twat’? lighten up there, cumstain.

and btw, you’re retarded. I’m pretty sure if you asked Cannibal Corpse, Chimaira, Pantera (or whatever bands you play while lifting weights and crying), they’d tell you that they LOVE their bands, fans, music, life, tacos, etc. Presumably, you yourself LOVE metal, so you commented here, ya tampon. I give Mirai from Sigh a pass on this one; he hates everybody, which is natural when living in Japan. I can have somebody whip up a diagram if this is too complicated for you.

Whoa! I live in Japan, it rocks! I naturally love everything, Mirai just has issues because he was never breast fed. What’s this diagram that you speak of? Yea I love you, you love me, blah… blah… blah!

Hey I pay her for her services, not for her love!

@dingbat:

hey buddy, with all politics aside here man. do you have your facts straight? how can you compare houston to detroit!?!!? this city is a thriving metroplolis! it’s like what, in the top 5 cities with business growth, employment opportunities, expansion, real estate and btw way ahead of the recession curve? this city may have it’s crime (what major city doesn’t), but the crime rate in all spectrums are considrably lower than that of a most cities not even half the size! that’s plain phenomenal in my book. i recently moved here from seattle last summer because of the research i put into this city. i’m not slamming you, nor am i trying to insult you, but please don’t tear my city down just to make a point with somebody (Cisco) who has conservative leanings.

Wow cisco & hotsauce.. just wow.

It’s people like you that make us Europeans think about you Americans as the country with the highest percentage of stupid people in the world. The fact that you’re almost in the majority in the US scares me, because here in Denmark you wouldn’t even have enough numbers to call yourself a minority. You would be called a fundamentalist, if not outright an extremist.

Why do you believe in something that was written by a fellow man thousands of years ago, when they had absolutely no clue about chemistry, physics, biology, advanced mathematics.. well, to be honest about anything really? What is it that makes you believe that their word is correct? Especially when so much of it has been proved wrong by modern science? Read http://skepticsannotatedbible.com – with the monumental amount of absurdities, mistakes, contradictions, outright lies etc in the book – how can you believe a single word of it?

And remember, every time you choose not to have sex with someone you are murdering a potential baby, stealing a chance of life from it. Don’t forget that when you are against abortion.

p.s. morals are a weakness. Wikipedia “ethics” for me, will you.

Jesus.. you just put George Bush’s shit administration along with Dimebag’s shit murder and tossed them up into the fan didn’t you?

Haha good job Dallas.

I’m sorry but I don’t have a political rant, but I will say that anyone that still thinks George Bush was the right decision for president two terms in a row is basking in his/her own ignorance. He’s turned half the world, including 70% of his country against him.

As far as the Democrat/Republican shit goes. Why is it that we subside to these bullshit labels? Why is it acceptable that we have to think the same way as one group of people or another? If this were a true country of independence and unity, we wouldn’t be divided by labels and parties. We would be AMERICANS, and that’s it.

As far as Dimebag goes. People get too fuckin wrapped up in their music. They get this emotional attachment to a band that leads them to seriously get butt hurt and lose sleep(and in this douchebag’s case, his life) over the fact that the guitar player had a feud with the singer. That had to have been the stupidest fucking thing to ever happen in the metal world. People should never get killed over shit like that.

Definitely a good read again Dallas. I couldn’t have found a better way to waste 5 minutes of my life, haha.

Hey, American here! Most of us are NOT in lockstep with the stains, hotsauce and cisco!

Amy preaches love and respect and you tell her to suck a twat??

And what the fuck do you two idiots care if two men or two women care and love and fuck each other? My mantra was always (when single) that for every gay man, that’s one less person I have to compete with for a woman.

It’s a fucking shame that too many so-called Christians forget all of the -what, 30? – New Testament commandments about loving your neighbor, loving your enemy and turning the other cheek. I think you all probably make ol’ JC puke.

Sammy!!!

Hey man, those commandments are set in place for non-Christians to follow because they are not saved by the blood of Christ. (btw I never told anybody to suck on anything!)

@dingdong,

Dude! Man, it just got real emotional up in here! Anyways, sorry I have opinions just like everybody else, I don’t hate anybody at all and it looks like I opened a can of worms that I never intended too. Whoever said I was a republican? I lean on the conservative side and vote republican, I never said I was a republican. Why can’t I just be Cisco? And I was way too young to know who Reagan was… I just know he’s an ex-president that my dad used to really have strong feelings against.

I might be shooting myself in the foot here, but call me ignorant, I haven’t the slightest clue about your rant about all the economic downfalls or conspiracy theories presiding in the Reagan/Bush administration.

@metalmike, thanks for the back up buddy! H-town in the hizzouse!

Okay, maybe so, but what are you so afraid of. You’d “stay away from” a gay person. Dude, I got news for you, you’ve been close to gay people and not even known it. What are you so afraid of? I’m not saying you need to go check out the freaks at your local gay pride parade. That’s the fringe, just as in any group. But your normal, every day homosexual is just someone who’s wired a different than you.

I didn’t choose to like females, I just do. Can you remember when you “chose” to like the opposite sex? No, because you didn’t *choose*, you just found yourself attracted at whatever age it happened. You didn’t look across the junior high lunch room and say, “Hm, I could like that cute girl or that football player.” No, you just liked the girl. Man, you need to move fast this odd fear/fascination. Most people who are SECURE in their own sexuality just don’t care.

And by the way, I’ve read those commandments and they don’t say, “These are only for non-believers”. If I’m wrong, give me the verse, in context.

(Sorry Ax and Vinnie, for the Gentile stuff.)

@ Sammy
::I am in no way pushing my beliefs on anybody, I am not trying nor did I wish to offend anybody, Sammy did request these passages::

Read:
Romans Chapter 7
Galatians Chapter 3

First off Dallas thanks for sharing your opinion on ppl and the world these days ….. you just took the words out of my mouth … which i always wanted to say … “I’m not shitting on America, I’m shitting on the people in America who act like they can’t change things. I’m shitting on the people who make decisions out of fear; the people who want the same taste of the week every week; the people who take up space and don’t give anything back except complaints and bad attitudes.” This quote is actually happening in most countries actually. I am a Chinese from Hong Kong, but more internationalized … lived in Dubai, Melbourne and now in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is just as summed up with your words of opinion … GOOD blog DALLAS!! …. hope to get the new God Forbid album soon! … btw … come to Hong Kong!!

Dallas, as ever, thanks for a great read. It was nice to hear this story from you rather than just read that God Forbid decided to play 20 seconds of “Fuckin’ Hostile” on stage at some gig and act like Dimebag gives a shit.

Sometimes I find your articles a little rambling, but that might be the goal. I think maybe the readability of the entries would benefit from some outlining beforehand or something. But your last anecdote about the interviewer giving props to Constitution, that’s awesome.

When Constitution came out, I’d been hearing about you guys for years (I come from Philly). I’d downloaded a few of your tracks and never dug them. I saw that disc in the store one day and just knew the time had come to jive with your guys’ sound. I’m so glad I picked it up, because it is indeed a fucking killer disc.

@dingdong

Dang!!! I got told! Well it looks like I once again put my foot in my mouth. I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents, obviously you’re way more passionate about politics and past/current situations. Kudos to you for being smarter than me!

I appreciate the feedback. It’s really funny though. If you got over to Blabbermouth and read most of their comments it seems like most of them are LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) metal heads. All of their comments reflect EXACTLY my point about what’s been going on in this country. This blog is about the environment and how it affected our last record so the blog is rooted in the writing of our last record. You still get the same comments: “Enough with Dime already!” or “Musicians should shut up and never talk about anything unless their singing!” If they’d be intelligent cattle and READ the whole article maybe they’d realize I can’t separate the experience of writing the record from the election or Dime. Sometimes writing these things opens up a lot of hate but the reason I called up Ax and Vinnie is I had a hunch you guys on this site were not the cattle most appear to be. I feel like Jeremiah Wright sometimes! I enjoy doing these and I hope I can keep a solid schedule once we hit the road with Death Angel. Thanks a lot and it’s my pleasure talking with you guys and giving insight into how the music business is for me personally!

HORNS!

Wow i’m glad some Europe people are paying attention; do y’all SEE what residents of america are forced to deal with? First, we are inundated with this fucktarded, small-minded, assholery; then we get grouped in with these dicklesses (understandably) by non-americans.

And for an encore, some of these reactionary asshats have the audacity to ask me to share my drugs with them, huh mo biscuits? fuuuuuuuck that. i WILL, however, set some drugs aside for that ‘metalgrrl”s kids. they will need them.

homosexuality is a perversion, sexual deviancy, a deviant from the norm if you will. i don’t understand why homosexuality or lesbianism is accepeted as ok, or just normal. if that’s the case, why don’t you stand up for pedophiles? there in itself is the same thing, a sexual perversion. what’s so different?
but isn’t that your arguement? they’re just wired different, but no more than you or me. they just woke up one day and said hey, i’m attracted to little boys/girls. just like homos right? hey i just woke up one day and decided i like other men?

why is there a double standard? you hear about teachers sleeping with their students. when it’s a man he should be hanged. but when it’s a female teacher you hear a bunch of snickering, oh man i was i was in his shoes if i were his age.

watch the documentary ‘deliver us from evil’, off the top of my head that’s what i can remember, later on if you want i can find the ‘scientific studies’ to back my commments up.

plus, a parent never says to themselves, ‘gee i sure do hope when little johnnie/janie grows up i sure do wish they turn out to be gay!’.

I think its good that we are in Iraq. I’m willing to bet that the next World War will be over oil. I hope Bush and future presidents are going to try to squeeze oil out of that hell hole. Unless you all want to get dominated by the communist Chinese, we need more fucking oil. Not to mention the current prices of gasoline and estimated 50 years left of oil reserves.

Misinformed, biased, ignorant and downright wrong. Shame on you pal for bashing the country that has given you the opportunity to make your living playing music. Dimebag’s death had little to do with America. It had far more to do with the demented thoughts and beliefs of a paranoid schizophrenic. You refer to Americans who voted for Bush as stupid. Perhaps you, living in your little rock ‘n roll fantasy world are the stupid one my friend. Your statement “of fact” that Dimbag would have never been killed outside of the United States is laughable and incredibly ignorant. You then go on to make the case that the murder of Dimebag is more important than the US efforts to root out and destroy elements of terrorism and hate. You then go on to say that most American’s are cowards, cut from the same cloth as the paranoid schizophrenic who killed Dimebag, nice job asshole, nice ignorant sweeping generalization. You have zero facts and zero credibility. You speak of cowards yet you seemingly know little or nothing about the heroism, courage and brotherhood demonstrated by hundreds of people that night at the Alrosa Villa. Grow up you ignorant pampered pussy. America is and always will be number one despite fools like you who know little about history. I wonder how you’ll feel in 20 years when your grandkids are forced to continue the fight against islamic terrorist because politicians like Clinton and Obama feel it’s more important to get elected than to stand on principals of national security.

Hey Chris A.,

Thanks for creating a new slag term — “Dimbag.”

I cannot think of a more appropriate term for such a douche as yourself.

Good work, Mr. “Author.”