MS Maniac Tiagon sent us a link to a new track by the French “mighty shredketeers” (his words) Gorod. I’d never listened to Gorod before, but the “shredketeer” classification certainly seems apt and I highly approve. Gorod play the kind of progressive / technical death metal peddled by bands like Arsis, Obscura and Psycroptic; aka they’re fucking awesome. Do yourself a favor and go listen to their new song “Disavow Your God” on their MySpace page right now. The band expects to have an album out this summer on Willowtip.

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As I Lay Dying have a new DVD, This is Who We Are, coming out April 14 on Metal Blade. I’m extremely curious to see it because, for whatever reason, I don’t feel like I know very much about these dudes as people. And that’s why I love these documentaries that are getting release so frequently these days; as much as I love, say, Chimaira’s music, watching their DVD The Dehumanizing Process made me feel like I really understood each member as a unique personality. And I think that’s invaluble – and a definite advantage that this generation of bands has over their elders, who didn’t come up in a time when making these sorts of things was easy and cost effective as it is today.

But back to that As I Lay Dying DVD: here’s a clip, where the band discusses one of their first big tours, as support for the aforementioned Chimaira (remember when Mark Hunter had dreads?). Consider me enticed…

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I really like this video for “Flatline,” a new song by Duff McKagan’s Loaded. Sure, it was clearly done on the cheap, but it has a good sense of fun, and the song is a catchy lil’ hard rock ditty, which is more than I can say for the Marilyn Manson songs. Plus, it has cute girls and a little bit of cleavage, so it can’t be all bad.

Sick, the new album by Duff McKagan’s Loaded, will be out April 7 on Century.

-AR

[via Noise Creep]

Generally speaking, all evidence suggests that Sharon Osbourne is a real bitch. This is not news. So when I saw the headline SHARON OSBOURNE Goes Off On Reporter on Blabbermouth, I kind of naturally assumed that some reporter had asked Sharon an honest question that had in some way suggested something insulting, and Sharon, not being the kind of person who likes it when someone speaks truth to power, flipped her shit.

Turns out that’s not really what happened at all; in fact, it would seem that Sharon is, for once, the good guy in this particular fracas.

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Holy motherfuck was this band good. And for the love of jeebus, Jupiter was a great fucking album! If you disagree, you’re a ninny. Riffs this big don’t just write themselves, after all.

If anyone were to ever ask me what my favorite albums of the 21st Century were, Jupiter would surely be near the top of it. Hmmm.

Watch the Bostonians slay live in Baltimore in 2004.

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Usually when you see a video with performance footage, the original studio recording of the song is still layed over the imagery. But the new Metallica video, for “Broken, Beaten and Scarred,” actually uses audio of the band playing the song live.

It’s actually kind of a gutsy move, and I sincerely appreciate what ‘Tallica was trying to accomplish. But Hetfield’s voice doesn’t sound all that great to me (no shock there), and the song itself only sounds kinda sorta okay.

Watch below, then weigh in with your thoughts.

-AR

HOLY SHIT, THERE’S A BAND CALLED CRYSTAL VIPER.

And they look and sound more or less exactly the way you’d expect a band called Crystal Viper to look and sound.

Plus, they’re Polish, and their singer’s accent is so strong that at first I thought she was, in fact, singing in Polish.

(I know what you’re thinking. Does this make me a stoned idiot, or make the singer unintentionally hilarious? To which I say: Can’t it be a little of both?)

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This is getting silly.

Here are the new new details for tomorrow’s night’s Bonded by Blood/Exmortus/Witchaven show:

Maric Lanes
1945 49TH St
Long Island City, NY 11105

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I understand that most readers of this site hate Marilyn Manson, and from a certain perspective, I understand why. But Manson is one of the last consistently decent purveyors of pop metal, and, well, some days I loves me some pop metal.

That being said… these two new Manson leaks from his forthcoming The High End of the Low are just terrible. I think that most fans were hoping that the return of Jeordie White Twiggy Ramirez to the fold would mean the return of the rock to Manson’s music – something a little more in the vein of “Irresponsible Hate Anthem” – and this just isn’t that. Which might be fine – personally, I like the Twiggyless Manson albums – but these songs are weak.

The first one, “Arma-God-Damn-Mother-Fucking-Geddon,” has one kinda funny lyric (“First you try to fuck it, then you try to eat it,”), but otherwise sounds like some third rate hipster bullshit; the second song, “The Wow,” is pretty much just a stright-up rip-off of NIN’s “Only.” Seriously. It’s stupid.

Here are the songs. A third, “We’re From America,” will apparently be avail for free download from Manson’s website later today. Although, after hearing these first two songs, I’m not very excited.

“Arma-God-Damn-Mother-Fucking-Geddon”

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MetalSucks, MetalInjection and BITPOM, in conjunction with EMI (which serves such labels as Century Media, Nuclear Blast, Earache, Candlelight, Season of Mist, Willowtip and Crash Music), are bringing metal to the masses with an extensive “March is Metal Month” campaign with independent retailers across the U.S.

During the “March is Metal Month” campaign, we’ll be running a series of 3 weekly “Show Us Your Metal” contests. To enter, take a picture of yourself at a record store doing something metal; throwing up the horns, making sweet love to a David Lee Roth Crazy From the Heat EP, posing in front of a Beyonce endcap in corpsepaint, buying something that costs $6.66, etc. Be creative! Send all submissions to news AT metalsucks DOT net along with your full name and address and “MARCH IS METAL MONTH” in the email subject line.

Congrats to Jake Kobrin who won last week’s prize, a ridiculously awesome Cynic box set, for the picture at left.

This week’s prize: Signed CDs and posters from Psycroptic and All Shall Perish, courtesy of Nuclear Blast. Send in all entries by the end of Tuesday, March 31st to win!

…from Metal Injection:

A collection of every time Slayer has said “Satan” and “Hell” in their self-written studio albums (does not include covers). “Satan” and “Hell” are said 88 times, not including the times they are repeated, such as in choruses or verses. Needless to say, this video is “funny as hell”. Fuckin’ Slayer!

Awesome!

-AR

Everything about this makes me giggle. I mean, when he throws those lil’ horns and corrects “Satanic” to be “Slaytanic,” it’s hard to believe this fella was in Exodus once upon a time. It’s like listening to my dad try to talk about Slayer.

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That makes me feel old somehow.

Here’s Aerosmith doing “Mama Kin” in 1977.

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Believer have made a downright biblical return from the dead this year with the release of Gabriel, their first album since 1993’s Dimensions. If you were still stomping and screaming at your parents for attention in the line for the Peter Pan ride at Disneyworld (and I know I was) you might not have been listening to Believer back in the day. However, you may have heard of one of their better known cohorts such as Atheist and Pestilence and much like those bands, Believer were experimenting with a lot of technical brilliance and progressive depth to make some very impressive metal. The day after Gabriel’s March 17th release, vocalist/guitarist Kurt Bachman was kind enough to talk to me about the making of the new record, kids these days, reunion mania and how they never really wanted to be known as a Christian band.

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I’ve never gotten to see Metal Skool, f.k.a. Metal Shop, live, because, well, I loathe LA and don’t go there very often, and they don’t come to NY.

BUT… I do all about them and their alocohol soaked, celeb-magnet live shows… which we have, in fact, posted about before.

So. The group has changed their name – again – this time to Steel Panther. They’ll be releasing an album, Feel the Steel, on June 9 on Universal – yes, they are on a major label. Honestly, I don’t know if it will be hilarious or wear out its welcome after a few listens (’cause let’s face it, often times joke bands really don’t work outside of a live setting, if at all), but, hey, I’m curious.

Here’s their new video for “Death to All but Metal.”

-AR

What do Twisted Sister, Great White, Kix, Nelson, Danger Danger and Anthrax all have in common?

They’re all playing this year’s Rocklahoma Festival.

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I love this band. If you don’t, you’re a ree-ree. Songs this good don’t just write themselves. End of story.

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It was over a year ago that we first got the news that Bret Michaels was writing his autobiography (and by “writing,” I mean dictating to some dude named Shane Stanley who had to do all the actual work); the book, Roses & Thorns (nice title, schmucky), will now finally a get a release on June 23, according to People.com.

Granted, this will not be a good book. The chances that it’s as decent as The Dirt are pretty slim; hell, the chances that it’s as good as Slash are pretty thin (and even Slash was only okay). But, there is a lot of room for comedy here, especially if Michaels takes himself too seriously which, chances are, he will.

Here are things I’m looking forward to reading about in this tome:

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OK, so far it seems like a one-off thing, but how incredibly awesome must it have been for Seattle concertgoers to witness 3/4 of Soundgarden reunited onstage together with Tad Doyle this past Tuesday night? (Thanks to fellow twitterer Mark Carrass for alerting me to this. Social networking fucking rules.) Sure, the (literally) massive grunge veteran doesn’t have the vocal range of Chris Cornell, but watching this sweet video footage of the band playing “Nothing To Say” makes it evident that that’s beside the point. You wont have to dig much deeper on YouTube to catch the clip for “Spoonman” featuring former Cornell cohort Tom Morello on rhythm guitar. Fortunately, no Audioslave songs were performed.

Mr. Cornell could not be reached for comment (I tried!), as he is currently in Chile in support of his latest solo album which nobody seems to like.

-GS

[Gary Suarez feels as if a weight has been lifted. He also writes for Brainwashed and usually manages the consistently off-topic No Yoko No. Say, why don't you follow him on Twitter?]

It’s a simple, yet controversial question. Vote below, then tell us why in the comments.

First person to say “Gary Cherone” gets banned.

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