Our friends over at Metal Injection have premiered “Let the Sin Begin,” the new video from Five Finger Death Punch Hinder Godsmack Drowning Pool, and let me tell you, the clip is, no sarcasm, a must-watch. Because there’s hot girls in it. And it’s not like there are other places on the internet where you can see hot girls. I mean, it would be even better if these chicks got nekkid, but, again, it’s not like there are just sites all over the internet where you can see hot nekkid girls. Certainly, no such sites exist where you can see hot nekkid girls without irritating monster truck show rawk playing in the background.

So until that time when someone finally, finally, FINALLY launches a website with lots of hot nekkid girls, this video is a must-watch. But if such a site existed, then, yeah, I probably would tell you not to even bother with this.

-AR

American readers may have recently become aware of a new MTV series called Skins, which has been the subject of no small amount of controversy due to the fact that, as I understand it at least (I’ve yet to actually force myself to watch an episode), the show is basically kiddie porn. What these readers may or may not realize is that Skins is actually based on a British series of the same name, and that said British series features a character who is metal head.

And when I say “metal head,” I mean all the worst stereotypes that people hold about metal heads — he’s rude, obnoxious, socially retarded, and, oh yeah, a poseur. (He wrinkles his shirts before putting them on! That’s the exact opposite of what most people do! Weird!!!) He also has ecclectic taste — he seems to enjoy Slayer and Drowning Pool in equal measures. And here I thought he was a Brit, not a redneck.

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You would have to be going out of your way to be ignorant not to have heard about 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner’s assassination attempt on Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tuscon this past weekend, but in case you really don’t ever read anything besides MetalSucks — this dick wad left six people dead, including a nine year old girl and a district judge, and wounded twelve other people (as of this writing, Giffords herself is still in critical condition).

Once I got over the shock of the news on Saturday, my first thought was, “Well, someone’s gonna try and blame this on metal.” ‘Cause in the words of Chris Rock, “That train is never late.” Hell, less than four years ago, after the Virginia Tech shootings, Vince made the same prediction — and he was right. And that was, obviously, not the first instance of scapegoating metal. There’s about as much connection between listening to metal and trying to kill someone as there is between listening to country and discovering a cure for cancer, but it’s loud, angry, rebellious music that often deals in violent imagery, so it makes it easy for people to point the finger at the music we love.

Enter Rush Limbaugh, a political mind adored by millions of free-thinking, well-informed, and perfectly reasonable people around the world.

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So here’s the thing. I do not like Drowning Pool. And I do not like the song “Bodies.” And it’s possible my brain is just complete mush from editing and formatting literally over a hundred year end lists. But I have watched this video three times now, and it has me DYING with laughter. I feel like my mom — “Oh, it’s so CUTE!!!” I don’t know how anyone can not find enjoyment in this, unless that person has no soul. Or hasn’t spent the last three days editing and formatting over a hundred year end lists. That could be possible, too.

-AR

Thanks to both Mike Winston and Kenny for sending this to us.

Well THANK GOD someone FINALLY took a collection of still photos of the “Hottest Gothic Girls” and edited it to the music of Drowning Pool. I was really worried no one ever do this. And they picked a song where the lyrics are just mwah! Perfect-o.

I know that a lot of you reading this think I’m being sarcastic, but I swear, I am completely sincere in my praise of this montage. I mean, do you really think I would make fun of this after reading the accompanying YouTube description?

“These are almost all the cute ones so enjoy and don’t post anything nasty because I’m a goth to and if you do I will delete it”

See! He got almost all the cute ones! (Those last few don’t like to be photographed, so getting all the cutes ones was just unrealistic.) And if we post anything nasty he’s goth to delete the video! (Oh, wait, he meant “I’m a goth, too.” But still, he’ll delete the video!) AND THEN WE’LL BE DEPRIVED OF ITS HEAT FOREVER! Surely, this would be a fate worse than death.

That made so horny, I’m gonna go pour water all over my dick and stick it in an electrical outlet.

-AR

I feel icky just writing about this.

When a young guy like Paul Gray passes away so suddenly, and he’s a rockstar, and he’s a rockstar who has been arrested for crashing his Porsche while in possession of needles, cocaine and weed, your mind, unfortunately, goes pretty much right to one place: “He overdosed.” And after Drowning Pool’s Dave Williams and Evile’s Mike Alexander both died young, and everyone said “overdose,” and then it turns out they didn’t overdose, well – you don’t wanna jump to any conclusions. You wanna wait for the doctors to do their thing and tell you why the guy passed away.

Which is all well and good. But now TMZ (there’s that icky feeling again) has obtained the 911 call an Urbandale hotel employee placed on Monday after finding Gray’s body, and the employee reports seeing a hypodermic needle and a bottle of pills in Gray’s room, and even speculates that Gray died from an OD.

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So unless you managed to stay away from a computer this entire weekend – and good for you if you did – you’ve probably already seen the line-up for Ozzfest 2010, which was unveiled this past Friday evening. While our source was right that this year’s incarnation of the tour would be scaled back – it’s only hitting six cities over the course of about a week and half – a whole lot of the bands we’d heard would be playing the fest aren’t. In fact, if you can’t quite consider it a stellar line-up, that’s probably only because so many great bands were already swept up by other big package tours; maybe I’m being too nice because a large chunk of the second stage consists of bands I really like or at least respect, my feeling is that if this line-up doesn’t send anyone running for tickets, well, it’s not exactly something to be scoffed at, either. My own thoughts on all the bands and artists after the jump… plus dates, natch.

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A reader known only as “Jonas” sent us the below video of 55 Escape, a Norwegian band whose biggest influences seem to be Korn and Linkin Park, not Enslaved and Immortal.

Here’s why I find this band kind of interesting. (And moving forward, please be aware that “interesting” and “good” are not the same word.) When you think about it for a second, nu-metal seems to be a predominantly American phenomenon. Off the top of my head, I’m having a hard time even naming a nu-metal band from any part of Europe, never mind Norway. Jeff Killed John were British, but they didn’t get famous ’til they swapped the nu for core and rechristened themselves Bullet for My Valentine. Am I forgetting a really, really obvious band? Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Godsmack, Evanescence, Staind, Static-X, Creed, Hed P.E., Snot, P.O.D., Puddle of Mudd, Drowning Pool, Saliva, Coal Chamber, Methods of Mayhem, 40 Below Summer, Sevendust, Ill Nino, Dope, Papa Roach, Soil, The Union Undergound… ALL AMERICAN. What the hell? No wonder the terrorists hate us.

Anyway, thanks to these sperm clots for doing their part in making America look good. Hoo-rah.

-AR

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…

-CM

[Corey Mitchell is a best-selling author of and blogs about serial killers, mass murderers, and brutal crimes against humanity. He would also marry P.J. Harvey if he wasn't already married.]

So while it was rumored for awhile that this year’s edition of Ozzfest would be a two day event – but it has now been announced that it’ll be just one single day, on Saturday, August 9, at at Pizza Hut Park* in Dallas, Texas. The line-up will be as follows:

Main Stage
OZZY OSBOURNE
METALLICA
SERJ TANKIAN
HELLYEAH
JONATHAN DAVIS
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY
SHADOWS FALL
APOCALYPTICA
IN THIS MOMENT
All-Star Tribute To “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott

Second Stage
SEVENDUST
DEVILDRIVER
KINGDOM OF SORROW
SOILENT GREEN
WITCHCRAFT
GOATWHORE

Texas (Third) Stage
THE SWORD
DROWNING POOL
RIGOR MORTIS

Actually, that is, by no means, a terrible line-up; if the stages are staggered at all (and I imagine they will be), it would be plenty easy to keep oneself occupied during sets from In This Moment, Jonathan Davis, and HellNo. And I guess it’s honorable of Metallica to let Ozzy play last, even though, at this point, a) they’re much bigger than Ozzy and b) Ozzy has to be in bed by 8 pm. I mean, if I was Ozzy, and I’d spent recent Ozzfests getting blown off the stage by the likes of Maiden and Priest, I certainly wouldn’t wanna follow Metallica. But, y’know, nice of Ulrich and Hetfield to step aside for one night and let the Ozzman cometh.

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We haven’t led you astray yet, right? So far our rumors for Rocklahoma have turned into realities, with the exception of our Motley Crue Sunday headliner prediction which hasn’t yet been announced, but we’ll get to that in a moment.

The same anonymous tipster who correctly told us that Extreme, Tesla, Kix and many others would be announced for Rocklahoma has just alerted us that Sammy Hagar will be filling the final Friday spot. Woah! No word on whether ex-Van Halen and The Other Half bassist Michael Anthony will be playing with him or not.

In addition to that, Motley Crue, Buckcherry and Drowning Pool (which our tipster mis-spelled as Frowning Pool. Intentional or not, I love that typo) will be teaming up for a U.S. Summer tour, and the tour will make a stop at Rocklahoma to fill the remaining empty Sunday slots.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it. And now back to your usual Saturday stoniness…

-VN