IN WHICH WE CHOSE TO ILLEGALLY PIRATE OUR OWN ARTICLES
Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 6:13pm by MetalSucksActually, we don’t have to pirate our own articles. Plenty of other websites do that for us, often without giving us credit or linking back to us. Once upon a time someone even accidentally included one of our bylines in their cut and paste job. Said “writer” apologized but then went on to shamelessly rip us off many more times, which was nice, because it shows his apology was sincere. You know who else tried to pass off someone else’s work as their own? The guy who went on to shoot Dimebag. So good company you keep, fellas.
Here are other ethically questionable decisions people made in the metal world this week:
- Hasidim moshed, we made punny jokes.
- Matt Heafy and Paolo Gregoletto of Trivium asked fans to illegally burn and share the band’s music.
- We’re streaming God Dethroned’s entire new album until Tuesday; listen now! We also debuted new tracks from Animals as Leaders and Burning Human.
- Arch Enemy choose to re-record old material; we choose to stop talking about this project from hereon out (starting… now!).
- Tyson vs. Holyfield 3 Underoath vs. Avenged Sevenfold! We love this kind of shit.
- Some Russian high school black metallers headbanged for show and tell, and we pondered how to improve our corpsepaint skillz.
- The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato sounded off against President Barack Obama. You sounded off against each other.
- We looked at new releases from Chimaira, God Dethroned and Goes Cube.
Next week brings more contests, more interviews, more new music streams you won’t be able to hear anywhere else, and at least one confrontation with a singer Axl once gave a terrible review. Come back and read more. You know you want to.
-Vince and Axl
Hey, so about that Chimaira contest?
Monday.
Excellent.
Also, looking over this past weeks articles, it seems as if Trivium gets the most attention from haters and non-haters. I think that everyone that hates on a band should subsequently post a video of their awesome band playing. Or on their myspace, they must list influences that aren’t: Metallica, Meshuggah, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Megadeath, or any other band that one can conceivably draw influences from.
This is a weak argument at best. Are you implying that because I do not have a band, I am not allowed to criticize a band or their efforts?
I’d love to know your reason for drawing this conclusion.
Why would you criticize a band for the way they right music if you have never been the process of writing music? Obviously everyone hates on Trivium due to the fact they sound a particular way, but you still take the time to post something about a band you hate, making them more available to other people, who would like to know what you are so upset about. I don’t particularly like Mastodon, so I’m not going to go into a Mastodon thread and start shitting up what they do. First, I don’t care that much, second, they make music and I have never recorded a song, so I can’t really judge them on their artistic abilities because I couldn’t do anything better.
I posted some Zune info about Mastodon about a week or two ago. Included in it was part of a press release and Bravewords.com copied me word-for-word, entire story, and even used the image. I contacted them and they apologized and sourced me but I still felt a little raped. Hell, even the magazines get ideas for stories from us bloggers, especially when our feeds go through revolver-blips.
But let’s be honest here; we’re all a little guilty of at least using other sites “ideas” and/or news articles in one way or another.
I kinda like Matt Heafy right now….
Figured they would’ve gone the way of their IDOLS and got pissed off about shared music…guess not.