An interview with Disturbed’s Dan Donegan, from We Love Metal (by way of Blabbermouth)… the debate over what is or is not “nu metal” continues!
We Love Metal: A lot of people on the Internet call DISTURBED “nu” metal. Do you consider yourself nu metal?
More br00tal than a hasid in the moshpit. More br00tal than a cage match between Pig Destroyer and Suffocation. More br00tal than a monkey murdering a carpet salesman. So br00tal that MySpace apparently wouldn’t even post it.
The song is “Gypsy Kids” from the record New Distances. Enjoy.
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NARROWS: GYPSY KIDS (2009) 872 x 480 from My Black Cat on Vimeo.
Metal trends come and metal trends go. In these Webernet-enriched times it happens faster than ever before. Whereas we used to have two or three loose sub-genres of metal cooking at any given time, now we’ve got tons of ‘em — some good, some not so good. So, in the current metal landscape, what micro-genre most needs to be obliterated from the world’s collective hard drives? Vote below then mouth off in the comments.
Behemoth, a.k.a. our favorite Polacks who aren’t Vader, have been added to three dates of the MetalSucks co-sponsored Summer Slaughter tour. Y’know, in case Suffocation, Necrophagist, Darkest Hour, Origin, Born of Osiris, and a plethora of other awesome bands wasn’t enough for you.
These are the Behemoth-sized dates:
07/05-Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Room
07/06-Calgary, AB @ The Whiske
07/07-Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
Of course, even if Behemoth won’t be on your local Summer Slaughter stop, it’s still a rad tour that you should check out. Get a full list of dates here.
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Our brothers from other mothers at Metal Injection, via a website called GrowUpPunk, have found this other website, Coolbuzz, which sells various childcare products – e.g. cribs, carriages, etc. – that is clearly directed at headbanging parents… who hate their fucking baby. I mean, look at what passes for a crib, rocking horse, and stroller:
Over the past few days, people have suddenly been leaving comments on our entries on wigger slam and the whole Waking the Cadaver versus Metal Inquisition debacle (In case you don’t recall, the short version is: Metal Inquistion‘s Sergeant D. called Waking the Cadaver “wigger slam,” and Waking the Cadaver vocalist Donald Campan consequently go so angry he let his retard flag fly and physically threatened Sergeant D., as is the custom amongst gentlemen.). Given that these are old stories (in one case well over a year old), I was more than a little curious to see what the comments were and who was leaving them.
Now I’m 99.9% sure that it was either Campan or a friend of his. To wit, this comment left by a reader calling himself “Eat Me”:
When will this horrible, horrible, horrible trend die out? Certainly not any time before June 16th, when Brokencyde’s new album, the appropriately titled I’m Not A Fan… But The Kids Like It comes out. Tours like this one are criss-crossing the country, Revolver is shilling for Hollywood Undead, and there’s a new crunk-core band popping up on the radio seemingly every week. Times are grim, my friends.
Here’s Brokencyde’s new video for “Booty Call.” Watch, fear for the well-being of our nation’s children, then hit up @brokencyde on Twitter and tell them how much they blow.
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Sorry there was no logo last week, kiddies. I was sick. Suck it.
ANYWAY, the logo from two weeks ago belonged to a band called Dead Raven Choir, and for correctly identifying said logo, Brent Hacker, Jake Haber and Rodney Wilder all win copies of special Roadrunner Records Top Shelf 2 Disc Edition of Type O Negative’s classic 1993 album, Bloody Kisses. Congrats, dudes.
Don’t go slitting your wrists if ya didn’t win one this time; the metallic maniacs at Roadrunner have bestowed upon us two (2) more copies to give away this week.
This version of Bloody Kisses comes with a second disc of bonus tracks, PLUS an awesome booklet that includes a really, really, really detailed interview about the album, conducted by Decibel’s always awesome J. Bennett. Here’s an excerpt:
Who’s the girl moaning on “Machine Screw?”
KEYBOARDIST JOSH SILVER: That was an ex-girlfriend. But I didn’t actually screw her; she screwed me. And I mean that in every sense of the word… Type O has obviously spent a lot of time, regardless of what album it is, mourning relationships. Obviously Peter has had some troubled ones. “Nothing but love songs” – that’s been our slogan forever. They’re all love songs.
In conclusion: if you already know and love this album, this version will give you way more insight into its creation; and if you don’t know and love it, here’s your chance to own something awesome.
All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl AT metalsucks DOT net. We’ll randomly select two winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce his or her names next week.
This week’s logo comes to us from the reader known simply as “Max.” And the answer is, um, prettygross. Good luck.
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Yes, the Tony Awards. Like the Oscars, only even gayer.
The band, whose song “Nothing but a Good Time” is featured in the Tony-nominated “Broadway smash” Rock of Ages, will perform said number alongside the cast of that show, according to Variety.
The show will be hosted by Doogie Howser Neil Patrick Harris, and other performers will include… Liza Minnelli.
In other news, Sebastian Bach is jealous.
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I was a little taken aback when I was this editorial in the New York Times this morning, written by former Guns N’ Roses/current Velvet Revolver bassist/current Loaded front man, Duff McKagan. Not so much because I was surprised to see that Duff is literate – he has a column in Playboy – but because the byline features his birth name, Michael McKagan.
Maybe it’s wrong of me to assume that the Times was being snotty – perhaps it was his idea to use his real name in the Paper of Record – but the whole thing is just kind of a head-scratcher.
No word yet on whether or not Axl Rose will now start writing for the Washington Post under the name “Bill Bailey.”
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P.S. I interviewed Duff back in April. The MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys have been dragging their feet getting that shit transcribed, but at some point, you’ll get to read it.
I don’t want to say too much about Ox because Sammy O’Hagar is working on the review even as I type this, but the album rules. Hard. I won’t even argue about it; people that don’t like it are no friend of mine.
Lambgoat is currently streaming the entire album. Check it out before it’s released on Relape on July 9.
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Last week we told you about the epic, Roman-themed band Ex Deo, spearheaded by Kataklysm’s Maurizio Iocono. You could be a hipster-metal fart-knocker and roll your eyes at yet another pagan metal band, or you could take my word for it and click “play” on the fittingly epic video for “Romulus,” the album’s title track, below. This shit is epic. Did I say “epic” enough times yet? Grand. Colossal. Monolithic. All of these adjectives describe both the band and this video.
The video (and song) tells the ancient Roman tale of Romulus and Remus, and was filmed by director Stanimir “Staca” Lukic in Belgrade, Serbia. Romulus comes out on June 19th in Europe and June 30th in North America on Nuclear Blast Records. Catch Ex Deo on the Paganfest Europe tour this fall.
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The official studio recording of the new Suicide Silence track “Wake Up” (which we’d previously heard only as a live bootleg) is now available for streaming – but not through one of the usual webernet outlets you’d expect. Nope, the track can be heard only on the band’s merch site, which is run by the company Third Degree.
I certainly understand the thinking behind that – might as well try to sell some t-shirts while you have everyone’s attention – and I’m not annoyed or angered by the decision, because the listener is under no obligation to buy anything. It’s more like the way you have go through the entire mall to get to the movie theater (I’m speaking from my limited experience in the suburbs, by the way). I do wonder if the band’s merch sales will increase at all as a result.
How did we miss the fact that Suffocation appeared in a History Channel commercial? Feel free to chime in with “this is old” comments; we know, but it’s still brutal and it’s still hilarious. Thanks to MS Maniac Brock for sending this in.
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Here at MetalisNotGood, we take our stony music quite seriously.
Duh.
So clearly we’re rabid fans of the almighty Tee Pee Records, a label known for representing the best in stony bands from the US and abroad…..in this case, ‘abroad’ means Canada (why not?), and the band you oughtta check out is Toronto’s Quest For Fire. This is music for taking bong hits in the eye of a hurricane to — the songs shift from calm, haunting, almost-drony creepers to raucously boogie-stomping classic rock-ish ragers…..their self-titled album (due out on June 9th) definitely exhibits
range in mood whilst retaining a specific ‘sound’ throughout.
Metal with a capital KILL, this is most definitely not — but fans of shweet/shwirly/shtony bands like Dead Meadow shan’t be disappointed.
You can currently catch these craysee Canucks on the road with The Pink Mountaintops…..tour dates on MySpace, but NYers be forewarned — they’ll be in Brooklyn this Friday night and Manny-Hatty on Saturday. Light em up!
Visit Quest For Fire on MySpace
-KW
Loyal MetalSucks Maniac Steve S. sent us an email a couple of weeks back with a link to this video, asking us, “Who the fuck is Reb Beach?”
Dear Steve,
FAIL. EPIC FAIL.
Sincerely,
Vince and Axl
Steve comes close to redeeming himself with the following observation: “the editing makes it all dramatic.” Indeed, Steve, indeedily-do. We still love ya.
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So by now everyone and their mother knows that The Dillinger Escape Plan have parted ways with longtime label Relapse Records. But one of the big, nagging questions – especially coming off the tremendous success of Ire Works – has been “Why?”
Well, our friends at Metal Insider recently caught up with DEP guitarist Ben Weinman to get some answers. Here’s an excerpt:
From the “I swear to God I’m not bitter” files: former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno apparently went off during a Q&A in Argentina last month, comparing Steve Harris to Adolf Hitler for his (allegedly) tyrannical grip over the band, which Di’Anno also called “boring.”
First of all, there’s a lot of things you can call Maiden, but “boring” is not one of them. You’ll only find Maiden boring if you hate having fun. Or happen to have your panties in a twist because you’re not in the band anymore. And being in the band is the only worthwhile thing you ever did with your life. And it was decades ago. And you’re nowhere near death. And people won’t stop asking you about it.
You didn’t really think we’d let the release of God Forbid’s new video for “War of Attrition” pass us by, did you? Of course you didn’t. At the MetalSucks Mansion few things are certain outside of death, taxes, and God Forbid news.
Check out our recent interview with Doc Coyle at New England Metal and Hardcore Fest, and while you’re at it read Dallas Coyle’s latest blogs too.
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I haven’t listened to Facelift in the longest time, but last week I gave it a spin and suddenly remembered how much more I like side-B (remember those?) than side-A. Not that side-A doesn’t rock, ’cause clearly it does, but goddamn, there are some under-appreciated gems on the flipside.
One of those is “Sunshine,” a song I always thought was fucking epic, even if I have no idea what the fuck Layne Staley thinks he’s singing about. “Then some dude came down to touch the mother/Mother touched, and dude ain’t here no more.” Uhhh… okay, Layne.
Here’s the band performing the song at the Silver Dollar Saloon in Michigan in ’91.
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