Man oh man, does that Samael concert in this video for “Black Hole” look like fun. Or, at least, what I can see of it looks like fun, when the director isn’t trying to give me a seizure from flashing shit at me.

Seriously, why not just put out a cool performance video? ‘Cause this is just weak.

Not a bad song, though. Not bad at all.

-AR

So as it turns out, Courtney Love is – no shock here – a fucking liar. Despite her protests to the contrary, not only did only did Love sign off on the use of a Kurt Cobain avatar in Guitar Hero 5, but she cashed the nice, fat check she was given for the use of said avatar. Nice.

The Great Kat was/is (does anyone still care about her?) more coherent than Ms. Love, but no less aggressively nuts. I was never a fan, but for those of you who were/are, I have but one question: why?

-AR

Thanks to Shane Gillis for the video.

The Intarwebs have been buzzing and seething over the inclusion of Kurt Cobain as a playable character in Activision’s popular Guitar Hero video game, his digitized ghost forever doomed to perform Bon Jovi songs at the whim of teenage boys. Most rational people assumed that this perceived offense against the deceased grunge rocker was the fault of his widow Courtney Love, who would have had to sign off the creation of this virtual atrocity. When called out on this via Twitter, by British music journo and former Cobain family friend Everett True, the unflaggingly graceful Love took the usual high road and launched into an inscrutable six hour tweet seizure railing against, among other things, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.

Anyone with a fucking brain in his skull (NO PUN INTENDED!) should immediately question the notion that Grohl has any control over Cobain’s likeness. Logically, that responsibility would rest with the executor of Cobain’s estate. But of course, we’re talkin’ about COURTNEY FUCKING LOVE here, so logic goes out the window from the start. Fortunately, Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic have formulated a much more coherent response to the growing outrage expressed by Nirvana’s sanctimonious fans, most of whom have grown up to be the type of corporate sellouts that Cobain so obviously disdained.

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We’ve all been cringing at Courtney Love’s latest desecration of her dead husband for a quick buck. Thankfully, the Hole frontwoman and executor of Kurt Cobain’s estate isn’t standing in the way of an absolutely awesome reissue of Bleach, Nirvana’s classic grunge/sludge debut. First released twenty years ago on Sub Pop, the album has been remastered for the label under the direction of bassist Krist Novoselic and original producer Jack Endino.

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If you’re famous, one of the biggest problems with being dead is that you lose all control over how your “estate” (read: family that needs money) uses abuses your legacy. Case in point: Kurt Cobain is apparently going to be in Guitar Hero 5.

Now, I’m not one of these people who has a problem with Guitar Hero or rhythm games in general – I find them entertaining, and I’m not an alarmist who thinks they mean kids are gonna stop learning to play real instruments.

But I feel like Cobain is definitely the kind of stick-up-his-ass dude who would have a problem with Guitar Hero. Still, Francis Bean gotta eat Courtney Love gotta shoot up, so there’s Kurt in all his pixelated glory.

I’m shocked that Dimebag hasn’t been included in a rhythm game yet. I’d wager that his estate is working on that right about now.

-AR

A tweet from The Syndicate alerted me to this story about the recent re-launch of Buddyhead.com, “the original snarky music website.” Seems that Buddyhead founder Travis Keller made some off-the-cuff comments about Manson’s fashion sense (or lack thereof). Manson, in turn, decided to take the high road but issuing an open challenge to bloggers everywhere:

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When I first heard that Courtney Love was going to release her long-delayed solo record under the Hole name, I considered it “a huge fuck you to co-founder Eric Erlandson.” Though the argument has been made that the influence and involvement of Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan may have had more to do with the band’s successes than the work of its official membership, I wondered how it was even permissible for her to utilize the name. Surely there had to be legal hurdles to be dealt with that couldn’t be dismissed without consent from former members. (I mean, Axl Rose effectively destroyed Guns N’ Roses by compelling his bandmates to relinquish all rights to the name.) So I’ve been waiting for Erlandson or someone from Hole’s management to comment on Love’s unilateral decision to shamelessly cash-in on the Hole brand. Well, at last, he has:

Furthermore, guitarist Erlandson insists a contract Love signed with him in 2002 bans her from using the name Hole for any future ventures, unless he’s involved. He tells Spin magazine, “We have a contract. She signed a contract with me when we decided to break up the band, which was like 2002 or something, so I really don’t have comment on it except that I know my part in that band. The way I look at it, there is no Hole without me. To put it blunt. Just on a business level… Somebody told me (about Love’s plans) and it just sounds like something… it just sounds like the usual. I love her a lot and I wish her the best, and I’m open to discussions regarding the real Hole, and if she has a solo album together, I think that’s great. I think she should finish it and put it out and do that.”

Of course, Love has responded to this seemingly sound logic with her usual grace, tact, and impeccable grammar… via Twitter.
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Paleozoic UK-based periodical NME reported today that Courtney Love will release her long-delayed second solo record as a Hole album. Apparently, none of the band’s other members will actually perform on the record, save for a possible appearance on backing vocals by Hole’s last bassist Melissa auf der Maur. With a brazen move that would make Burton and Dino blush, the Gratest Bloggre On Earht has effectively delivered a huge fuck you to co-founder Eric Erlandson by co-opting the name in an attempt to save her perpetually disintegrating career.

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The Huffington Post is reporting that Courtney Love and The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke are secretly dating. I find that kinda funny, given that The Wrestler features a line about what a pussy Kurt Cobain was, and Rourke is a known accomplice of Axl Rose, who famously feuded with Love and Cobain back in the day.

But there’s nothing funny about the way Courtney Love’s face looks.

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At this point I don’t think it’s news that Courtney Love is a mental case who’s in severe need of being flattened by a truck, but her latest stunt might really take the cake. In the new issue of Heeb magazine (which is a pretty funny publication, in case any of my fellow Jews aren’t aware of its existence), Love – who claims that she’s a) sober (uh-huh) and b) part Jewish (“I’m a Buddhist, but I do identify with Judaism in the sense that it’s in my bloodline,” she proclaims) – has this to say about the Chosen People:

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Blabbermouth posted the following live vids of a reunited At the Gates playing “Suicide Nation” at the Electric Weekend Festival in Madrid and Cavalera Conspiracy (a.k.a. the semi-reunited Sepultura) performing “Sanctuary” at the Netherlands’ Pinkpop festival this past week. And even though the Cavalera Conspiracy footage is pro-shot and the At the Gates footage is from some dude’s cell phone, I gotta say, I think ATG sound like they have their shit together, while the Cavaleras could use some more practice. I’m all for a punk rock down n’ dirty ethos in metal, but they sound looser than Courtney Love’s vagina.

I guess I’ll know for sure how these bands are live when Vince and I check ‘em out later this summer. In the meantime, feel to free to argue amongst yourselves.

AT THE GATES – “SUICIDE NATION”

CAVALERA CONSPIRACY – “SANCTUARY”

-AR

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with Billy Corgan? The Associated Press reports that the bald rock god, a mere shadow of his former self, is suing his record label of 17 years, Virgin Records, because said label’s “use of the band in a ‘Pepsi Stuff’ promotion with Amazon.com and Pepsi Co. threatens their reputation for ‘artistic integrity.’”

ARTISTIC FUCKING INTEGRITY?! Is this shithead completely fucking bonkers or what? You wanna talk about damaging your artistic integrity, let’s talk about how you’re doing Smashing Pumpkins “reunion” without 50% of the Smashing Pumpkins. Let’s talk about your decision to include photos of Paris Hilton in your album’s liner notes. Or let’s just talk about the fact that you made a really, really shitty album. Ya think any of that shit might’ve damaged your so-called “artistic integrity,” Billy? Fuck, Trent Reznor even called you “corporate.” And what’s the photo above this article, Billy? Oh, yeah. It’s a picture of you. With Courtney Love. At the fucking premiere for the movie Freedom Writers. Your artistic integrity is about as intact as Edsel Dope’s career, so let’s cut the shit. If you’re pissed that the label fucked you out of royalties for using your image and/or music in a soda ad, that’s one thing, but don’t bitch and moan about artistic integrity.

There’s only one bald Billy making relevant alt rock right now, and that’s Billy Howerdel. While we’re waiting for his new album to get released next month, someone please beat Corgan to death with a sock full of quarters.

-AR

Last week we posted Courtney Love’s latest display of English language prowess blog offering, in which the Hole frontwoman poo-pooed beer, remarking “Beer isnt even GOOD. i mean REALLY. ‘ahh ahm a gonna belly up to the sports bar and have a brewski y’all want one?’ i mean who has really had more than TEN beers in thier life on my blog?”

Well, approximately 30 of you disagreed with Court and shared your opinions with us on her reverse-sexist tirade, including one commenter named “cherry” who may or may not in fact be Courtney Love herself. Cherry’s style of prose and firm grasp on the English language mysteriously resembles Love’s, and though we can’t be sure, Cherry’s avid defense of Courtney and Dave Grohl-bashing are mighty suspicious. We also find her choice of posting name highly curious (and time — 5:04am!) , given that 5 hours after said comment was posted, Love put up another blog on her MySpace titled “beer”; we think the 7th word looks familiar:

hey now..i LOVE that Belgium Cherry beery and Frambois beer and Ale and Stella and shit i mean Budweiser CULTURE its all about the fucking m,enfolk and their goddammed football , ilove me some basketball if im inthe good seats atthe lakers and i do lobve bnaseball buti just hate budweiser culture its annoyingly obvious i hope that clarifies mty fox talking point issue wich seems tohave taken off.

Ah, so we get it, you just frown upon Budweiser and the men who drink it! Way to be so egalitarian; only high class beer like Stella and “Belgium Cherry Beery” will do for you! Excuse us low-class metal farts for getting confused by your Olde English prose. At least we write in the first person rather than pretending to be your own fan named “cherry.” Also Court, in all honesty, some good ol’ Bud might do you some good; get some meat on those bones.

-VN

From the famous blog of one Courtney Love:

i would never votefor a presidenty based on the “person id most like to have a beer witH” Fox transparently obvious talking point. Its maddeningly sexist and mostly its DUMB.
Beer isnt even GOOD. i mean REALLY. “ahh ahm a gonna belly up to the sports bar and have a brewski y’all want one?”
i mean who has really had more than TEN beers in thier life on my blog?
Guess what ? Ill bet the farm my blog subsribers are in NO WAY “beer drinkers” AND ill alsop bet they are fucking VOTERS, so shut this shit up

Beer is sexist? It’s not good? This is crazy talk! It’s also extremely classist and elitist. Excuse us Courtney, for we can’t afford the top shelf apple martinis you’re so accustomed to drinking.

What percentage of MetalSucks readers have had ten beers in their life?

-VN

Courtney Love’s latest 2,000+ word blog entry (and I use the term “word” loosely) is another A+ exhibition in spelling and grammar, with a page-long rant about colors:

mauve i love mauve ill buy mauve if the packaging doesnt lok faux victorian- and anythinbg wedding cake inspired- any sort of bridal thing i always look twice at- i love3 that nude peach that is almost skin like in vintage clothes and i got a fantastical opera coat a dar dar k chiocalate brown with coral lining but i hate salmon but im callinthis coral as it was so fabulius itacal- i think i got a real vionette dress too0- chriust i sound like jack white- i do like red white and black really-= no i love aqua- variations of aqua- i love berry as ina clear berry lip= i like a really really loght pink as i think of fucshcia denim and metallic gold as paris h, too much- hmmm- maybe some of you are mor eimaginative than me- those kali pictures from india all blue skina nd orange and saffron roibes and rubies emeraLds etc- i live green outside but i love autummn more ( we dont have that in la but we do in LONDON and new york and wellsoon be in BOTH!)id hAVE TO SAY I LOVE CREAM . ;ike tea dipped white and plum and i love a beuatiful purple and periwinkle blue always takes my cake-

Got a headache yet? Then there’s this bit about the recording of her new album:

when i first stazrted this endaevor almost 4 years ago ( yeah but ONLY 74 DAYS IN THE STUDIO ALL IN) i had these niave barely there little songs this paino sinmset ,marwuis i gave to Visionare because i loved the idea of anything being in Vinyl and becaus ei knew that it would never opthewr wise see the light of day, so yes it goes on and on – bu tthaqtsx because itll cvome out when its ready although the date has not changed

Does anyone know what a “sinmset” and a “marwuis” is? Because really, I’d like to know what those will sound like on her new album.

-VN

According to her latest blog post, Courtney Love has attempted to call the IRS to clear up some ID theft and credit card fraud incidents:

whats your best suggestion for clearing up old id theft but MASSIVE old id theft open corps you knew nothing about bogus tax stuff- mine e3as to directkly c all the irs wgh ignored me til my audit THEN they started listening…..now she wants me to back up EVERYTHING ican back up most of it witha document- i feel as tho my karma is good emnough that i wont get burned sonc eim not the one that did the plethora of oh every whiote collar crime you can think of from morgtage fraud to notary fraud to a MASS id fraud abnd 20 some corps oppened on my name, i just found 18 amex histories in the history amex szent me NONE reflected ( wel;l 4) in my legit ss but theres a fake ss number they used too

I can just picture the poor IRS pencil-pushers when Courtney calls up; “Hey, Joe, it’s Ms. Love, AGAIN.” Joe: “Uh, tell her I’m busy and I’ll call her back.” (snickers).

But I mean really, didn’t she steal her own identity years ago with all that plastic surgery? –OR– Serves her right for stealing Kurt Cobain’s identity for profit. <zing!>

-VN

Courtney Love has posted another well-articulated blog on her MySpace page, full of beautiful prose, impeccable spelling and grammar as usual. In this episode, her response to accusations that she slammed Madonna (“i dont think i salmmed her i think ipraised her business acumen- and her ability to not screw up a good thing- im far m,ore self destructive quite obviously and shit.”), and her musings on adjusting to real, working life:

Even though im an artist- yeah we too must suffer Fica scores and worse than those who arent – because we are treated like utter shit if we even allow th eslightest thing to escape and iveallowed others to take care of my shit for so longa nd im so ANGRY – at them obviously but at myself- this chaos has got ot be cleared before anything can move and sometimes i do not care about records or movies or any dammed thing – until the stuff is clear and clean and a simple life is lived = with dashes of fabulousity and very nice floral arrangements …..

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Amazingly “Buddhism” is about the only word spelled correctly in Courtney Love’s latest psychopath rant MySpace blog entry, posted Sunday. Seriously, you have to read this thing, or at least give it your best effort; the old “monkeys on a typewriter” saying never held more water. Here, the singer riffs on a failed business partnership with (I think) Madonna:

DEAMND paper on everything
legibel all sneaky bits up front
force people to signa contract of your making
so im agonised and hur

t , beyond what i can express and i express it publically because imn SICK of it so sick that im not trusting anyone withjout paper paper apApr graphs and accountibility – and if you ever see a real estate or other cobntract getr some one with an mba to give you a WRITTEN cliff notes of the sneaky bits and fuckings your getting an dthen you can negiotiate-=
so my whole lofe has been decimated and eithe rthis person makes a major restituion in many ways not just fiscal or i move onto a different paradigm – sans some one iove considcered my best friend for years and its not going to driveme into the anguish or pain pr mental opr phsyocal break down im sick of the stress this dynamic betewwen me and this person si caussing me

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