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 Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 10:30am by

The most interesting headline to come across my RSS reader this morning was this one from SMNnews.com: “Fozzy Song ‘Martyr No More’ Streaming.” Fozzy is still around? Fozzy of wrestler Chris Jericho fame? No shit.

A side project for Stuck Mojo guitarist Rich Ward at best and a musical outlet for Jericho at worst, apparently Fozzy have a new album coming out called Chasing the Grail. I’m not sure I’d ever listened to a Fozzy song before today, but you know what? “Martyr No More” ain’t bad at all for what it is. Rich Ward is a great songwriter and a surprisingly tasty guitar player, and though his sound hasn’t changed much, or really at all in 20 years, you have to give the guy credit for being several years ahead of the rap-metal curve (for better or worse). Take latter-day Stuck Mojo and remove some of the cringe-worthy rapping (not for nothin’ I’ve actually dug some of Mojo’s later material) and you’ve got Fozzy, which is actually kind of an upgrade. If you can just ignore all the auto-tune on Jericho’s voice, you’ve actually got a pretty decent song here. Certainly not gonna reinvent the wheel, but a good song.

-VN

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  • Shinaain

    These dudes were never trying to reinvent the wheel or be cutting edge. They were just having the best possible time making music. If nothing else, their videos (and shtick) were freaking hilarious. Anyone remember all the 20 Questions interviews Jericho/”Mongoose McQueen” used to do for Metal Sludge back in the day? Classic.

  • http://www.welovemetal.com We Love Metal

    This was great. Man thats a good song. If Metal could just have some more guys that realize that a great beat with some cool riffs is all we need.

    • Metal Fuckin’ Dave

      I’ve been trying. God knows I can’t play technical shit.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

    Not bad… the main riff sounds like a cross between Pantera and The Sword, and the vocals didn’t completely ruin it for me.

  • Mike

    The solo by Jeff Waters was awesome. The rest was crap.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason Crispen

    alright more bleeding cowboys font!!!!

  • stinkybritches

    I never thought I would see a Stuck Mojo reference here. The song was okay, I listened about a minute before stopping it.

  • http://www.youtube.com/nobudgettelevision C.J. the D.J.

    The fast part was good, didn’t seem to bring up the intensity though. Just felt like a different song.
    Mostly I like Fozzy, not my favorite band, but good.

  • http://www.hibernum.net hibernum

    Ok Vince, here’s the thing about Fozzy Osbourne. It isn’t bad, but it isn’t that great either. To kill a stranger wasn’t bad. But wasn’t great. I thought this band was done. Jericho had quit wrestling to do Fozzy full time, but Fozzy wasn’t successful, and he went back to wrestling. Weird.

    Ok, now for the Stuck Mojo DDP video for Rising:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0NpeWe5sGk

    Ok, now someone else post that video of DDP on MTV getting hit in the head with a stopsign by Raven. Ahhh, good times!

    • Joshie

      ahh…i used to think Raven was so badass when I watched wrestling…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Dasher/30826541 Matt Dasher

    Wocka Wocka Wocka

  • Sammy

    I expected terrible, given that I’ve never liked anything they’ve done in the past. It’s not terrible.

  • Sammy

    I expected terrible, given that I’ve never liked anything they’ve done in the past. It’s not terrible. Except the double time part with the solo. That is beyond terrible.

  • metalguy

    now predator rides a horse?

  • You Don’t Know Me

    this is pretty okay. never been a big fan of Fozzy but this is good. If a new Fozzy album is coming out, I wonder if that means Jericho is taking a leave of absence from wrestling. That would suck since he’s one of the WWE’s best heels right now. It would be a shame to see him go.

    • Mark

      I doubt it, Fozzy had three albums under their belt before he took a leave of absence to tour with them. And even then, Fozzy was only one of the many reasons he took a sabbatical, the main on ebeing he was burned out and needed time to recover. I doubt he’d walk away now that he’s performing the best he’s ever done.

      Having said that, I’d love it if Fozzy came back to Dublin to tour this album. They’re not the greatest band going, but fuck me, do they put on an awesome show…

  • Failure

    fucking lame.

  • Fufkin

    Leagues above Stuck Mojo – Rich Ward has the main band / side project thing the wrong way round imho