I had never heard of The Raid before last week, when it debuted at the currently-in-progress Toronto International Film Festival to rave word of mouth. I’ve seen a lot of comparisons online to John Woo’s Hard Boiled, which is high praise indeed. And the trailer (below) certainly looks quite kick-ass. (And very violent. I guess that makes is NSFW. Fair warning.)

Unfortunately, The PRP tells me that — as the above headline states — Linkin Suck’s Mike Shitoda is scoring the film. I don’t know if that’s his music in the trailer or temp music, but it certainly sounds Linkin Suck-ish, which is a bummer. Hopefully, Shitoda’s musc will be innocuous in the final film, and therefore won’t distract from all the ridiculous gore that I’ll be paying to see.

No word yet on when The Raid is getting a wide release, but here’s the official synopsis of the film, courtesy Collider:

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Holy crap. I don’t even really mind some of Eminem’s older stuff, which can be a lot of fun, given the right circumstances (namely forties, weed, and a bunch of white dudes feeling nostalgia for ten years ago). But this if AWFUL. I mean, it’s still better than Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, mostly ’cause Eminem is a wwwwaaayyyy better rapper than Fred Durst or Mike Shitoda, but that’s like saying it’s better to lose your finger than your entire hand, y’know?

-AR

[via Metal Army]

I’m sorry, but a reader named Mike Garba sent this to us over the weekend, and I just got around to looking at it, and it’s fucking hilarious. And while I happen to be fortunate enough to have a blog that people read, I am going to use it to share this with as many people as I can. Because this is love. Pure love, all over your face.

So much better than Mike Shinoda.

-AR

Mike Shitnoda, the ugly Backstreet Boy wannabe who raps for Suckin Suck, recently gave an interview to MTV discussing the band’s follow-up to their last album, Farting Right in Iron Maiden’s Eye Socket. Here are two statements Shitnoda made during that interview that I find fascinating. And by “fascinating,” I mean “delusional.”

“It’s been going great, I feel like it’s an entirely different process and an entirely different style of music than anything we’ve done before. It’s hard to place. People keep asking me, ‘What does it sound like?’ and it’s hard to describe.”

No, it’s not hard to describe, Mikey. It’s going to sound exactly like every other Suckin Suck song ever written. Because all your songs sound exactly the same as that initial shitty song which made you famous. This isn’t my opinion. This is a fact. People have scientifically proven that all that your songs are the same. One dude even made a video about it. Look:

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Projekt Revulsion – er, Revolution – Linkin Suck’s answers to Ozzfest/Summer Sanitarium/summer package tour of your choice, has announced its line-up for this year’s edition, and in addition to headliners The Chester Bennington Comedy Hour, the mainstage will include Chris Cornell, The Bravery, and Ashes Divide. Second stage performers will include Atreyu, 10 Years, Hawthorne Heights, and Armor for Sleep.

Okay, so I’m dying to see Ashes Divide live (or, for that matter, hear their album in its entirety – I don’t know how the label has done such a solid job of preventing it from leaking with only a week left ’til its release, for but good for them), but otherwise, this has to the tour to skip this summer. As of late, Chris Cornell seems to be going out his way to become a caricature of his former self, 10 Years, Hawthorne Heights and Armor for Sleep all blow goats, and even though I liked some of Atreyu’s pre-Lead Sails offerings, their live show is a painful demonstration of how reliant they are on Pro Tools and other studio chicanery.

I don’t know much about The Bravery but they strike me as the kind of band that is listened to exclusively by anorexic hipsters in skinny black jeans. Actually, they seem kind of out of place on this tour.

It’s interesting that Linkin Suck are booking a tour that’s so light on heavy bands. I wonder if that’s because they’re booked elsewhere or because Mike Shitoda and company are deliberately trying to distance themselves from the metal world that has so forcefully and maliciously busted their balls for the past seven years. Debate amongst yourselves while I pray for an Ashes Divide solo tour.

-AR