That’s the only question remaining. Because everyone else, including a struggling songwriter supposedly working with the Diamond one, believed a David Lee Roth imposter who had every other detail nailed was the real deal. First it was reported that Diamond Dave was pulled over while speeding to the hospital for an alleged peanut allergy reaction; then the real Diamond Dave came out professing his love of nuts and declared that the cops who reported the arrest were swindled by an imposter. Mystery Dave even had the hospital nurses hoodwinked, taking two of them to a local bar after being released, “Hot For Teacher” style! Most recently, a photo of Fake Dave has surfaced (pictured here), though his true identity is still a mystery.

No word yet as to whether fake Dave buys pot in Washington Square Park.

Next up for Fake Dave; nose-enlarging surgery?

-VN

Think Satan rests his horns in the holy land? Think again. Revolver Magazine Executive Editor Brandon Geist recently returned from a 2-week jaunt to Israel, and though he experienced a shooting (almost), a militant-started forest fire and an Israeli metal concert, he lived to the tell the tale. Read all about it on the Revolver Blog.

-VN

It’s time for the second installment of our Passover series relating the Ten Plagues to metal. Today we have lice, flies and cattle disease! So metal. Heathens beware… ’cause the Jews besaved.

#3 – Lice: God created a plague of lice from handfuls of dust which swarmed in the air and irritated the skin of the Egyptians and their animals.

Tool – “Sober”: I imagine this dude is so miserable because lice have eaten his skin away. he must have been Egyptian.
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#4 – Flies: God created the plague of dog flies that bit the Egyptians and attached themselves to their eyelids, but the Hebrews were unaffected by them.

The Black Dahlia Murder – “Flies” (live):
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#5: Cattle Disease: Murrain – murrain means a cattle plague. This is a virus that affects cattle and eventually kills them. Most Egyptian cattle were affected by this plague but the Hebrew cattle were not.

Carcass — duh! Sick live clip from 1992:
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-VN

So, for those of you who might not know any Jews (read: those of you outside New York City), this weekend marked the beginning of Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt (for you Christians… you might recognize the story from the Exodus section of that neat little book called The Bible). As you contemplate not eating any bread for a week, we contemplate the 10 Plagues — those most metal of punishments doled by God unto the evil Egyptians — and their metal-inspired counterparts.

1. Blood: God transformed the water in the Nile River into a river of blood for 7 days, causing the death of fish and leaving the Egyptians with undrinkable water. This one is obvious: Slayer’s “Raining Blood”! Awesome live footage.

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2. Frogs: God created a swarm of frogs that came up out of the Nile river and covered the land of Egypt, infesting Egyptian houses. Toads aren’t quite Frogs, but the Toadies do it for me.

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Thanks to the illustrious “metalgf” for her help with these posts. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s plagues.

-VN