You’re completely right, people take this shit way too seriously while also failing to recognize just how truly horrible it is to even SAY that you wish death upon someone you have never met just because you dislike/hate their music. It’s completely and utterly pathetic and it disgusts me.

Oh yeah? You’re glad he’s dead? How the fuck would you feel if I said, “Your mother just died of cancer? That’s fucking GREAT!” Yeah, I get it, this is the internet and we’re in a community where death is taken perhaps a bit more lightly, at least on the surface through lyrics and violent images and such, than in the “real world”, but there’s not one single excuse for so many people to say they’re happy about this dude’s (or anyone’s) death.

I despise AX7, just like I despise a fuckton of other bands out there. I would NEVER wish death upon them, their families, their loved ones, or their freakin’ pets. You’re right, Eyal, when you say a lot of people need to grow up. This site was pretty bad that day, Blabbermouth is the worst of all.

EXCELLENT POST my friend, and well said. It’s just fucking music, let’s have fun with it (and hopefully that includes laughing at ourselves and the things we like).

PS A7X are/were real fucking good and knew how to get the party started. Backed!

I’m one of the seven ladies here! And I don’t wish death on lame bands. I like one of Avenged Sevenfold’s cds, but I don’t remember what it’s called right now. (Not the newest one.) It’s too bad that their drummer died at such an early age.

I don’t even wish death on my most useless coworker, with whom I do not get along even slightly. I just wish she would go work somewhere else, away from me. And sometimes I want to tell her off, which I do.

Agreed. Nicely said.

You’re right. Shitty music does not a shitty person make. But then again, this callousness we’re all discussing is what comes of celebrity. Give yourself a ridiculous stage name and image, get a haircut like a 1980′s anime character, market yourself aggressively to children, slap your band’s name and your pretty faces on every piece of shit plastic trinket you can think of, and what do you become? A cartoon. And of course nobody gives a shit when a cartoon dies.

Furthermore, I have a hard time believing any of the members of A7X had a problem with the fawning accolades heaped upon them by the slavering, slackjawed masses to whom they pandered. They weren’t crying about being idolized, about being treated like gods or heroes simply for being in a band. They weren’t crying about the money, the drugs, the sluts, the adulation. No, surely not; these were simply the just rewards of their labors. Well, sorry champs, but all that privilege has an inverse. If you’re going to accept the worship of strangers, you’re going to have to accept their condemnation too. That’s the fine print no one remembers to read when they turn themselves into ridiculous caricatures in the pursuit of fame.

To extend the logic, it only makes sense to rail against cruel remarks against dead rock stars if you’re equally prepared to rail against the empty-headed hero-worship of living rock stars. And sadly, empty-headed hero-worship has long been a staple in the world of metal fandom.

Comments? Questions?

Eyal isn’t wrong … but I think he needs to go farther with his condemnation.

The problem is the general nastiness you find on the Web. Go to any message board or comments section and you’ll find people calling each other names and generally behaving like jackasses. Insults rule the day, and any difference in opinion is met with hostility by random trolls. Look at just about any comment secion on MetalSucks: The Web is rampant with rudeness and crass behavior from people who act like tough guys while hiding behind screen names.

Yeah, it’s sick to say, “man, I’m glad so-and-so is dead, cuz his band sucked.” But it’s not that far removed, really from flaming some poor guy – calling him/her “fucktard,” “moron” or whatever – on a message board because he likes a band you don’t like. It’s the same sentiment is the same.

I wonder if some fan ran on stage and shot him in the head, would there be hate for him on the internets.

Drug death = what an asshole for waisting their life
Natural causes = shit happens to good people
Murder = His a fallen god

But if he was a hot chick I’d be really sad for some reason.

Yay for common sense.

Avenged Sevenfold has sold more in 1 week than Daath has in their entire career.

…and they suck.

It’s true, but some of us are just bitter, unfulfilled, aimless, pathetic people.

haha if you think people like that are bad, go read comments on gaming sites like ign. some of them sound so oppressed in real life.

well obviously you read all those comments on lambgoat haha. i think lambgoats purpose is just talk shit, you cant really take it seriously at all.

on the subject of black humour…

I wish Lars had drawn the ace of spades in 1986

And how come Mieszko Talarczyk never got any tributes? Boxing Day a couple of weeks ago was the fifth anniversary of his tragic death, the only tribute to him was a lone Facebook group set up a few years ago.

I never expected anyone to write this piece, simply because the notion that wishing death on people who play music you don’t like is stupid is a total no-brainer.

hey axl and vince… are your hearing what Eyal are saying ??….

next time try to apply those words of wisdom to say…. ummm.. Ozzy Osbourne.

You do have a pretty black sense of humor i must say.

The only thing this article got me thinking was “Why am I wasting my short life reading this garbage article?”

Its great to know that the PC metal community police is alive and functioning though! Where is your band playing next, Woodstock?

Well gosh, Eyal. I’m just so sorry that I snipped at A7X and a hundred other folks just happened to have similar ideas. I’ll try harder to think things nobody else in the 7-billion-population planet would think. :P

I wasn’t huge with the hate. I was just like. “Band sucks, yeah, he died, but the band sucks. He was probably good, but the band sucks.” and something about hoping they break up.

and being glad he wasn’t shot in the face onstage. (or else we’d have a shitload of “The Rev Signature Snare’s & Kicks” flooding the market.)

I could see myself making friends with members of bands I didn’t like. It would have to be on the whole. “I don’t like your shit, but you arent full of shit and the music isn’t full of shit, it just isn’t my cup of tea.” type thing though. The rest though, I would just kind of ignore.

Agreed but only death to Attack Attack because crabwalking isnt cool and i seriously doubt i would or could be friends with them. but nice post \m/

i never commented before but i just had to now. good site.