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Welcome to “Question of the Week,” a (not really at all) weekly debate amongst the MetalSucks staff regarding a recent hot button issue.
This week we say farewell to the season by posing the question:
WHAT WAS THE METAL ANTHEM OF THE SUMMER?
The MS staff’s answers after the jump.
Well this is pretty funny.
Reader Zach Gates e-mailed us to say that his friend had actually made a Devin Townsend skullet wig: “It took him forever to MAKE the wig by hand. He got a bald cap and a regular wig and spent a few days cutting, dreadlocking, and gluing the whole thing together.” And while that probably sounds like an insane amount of work for no real reason, Zach’s buddy did get some payoff in the end:
So, yeah, WORTH IT.
In case you somehow forgot, Devin (the real one, not the dude in the wig) is currently on tour with Children of Bodom, Obscura, and Septicflesh. Get remaining dates here. If you do something as awesome as Zach’s friend, maybe you can get yer picher taken with Devy, too!
-AR
If you haven’t entered our super-awesome Obscura vape contest yet, well, there’s still time — but only just barely!!! We’ve gotten some ridiculously good entries, including an entire YouTube video that someone made in order to best demonstrate their own outer-space smoking device. The competition is fierce, but you can still throw your hat in the ring!!!
Get all the details on how to enter (and more about what you can win!) here. Entries are due one week from today — that’s June 17, numbskull — so make sure you don’t let the clock run out on you!
And DO NOT FORGET that Obscura are heading out on their awesome tour with Children of Bodom, Devin Townsend, and Septicflesh starting June 24. Get dates here.
-Axl, Vince, and Everyone at MetalSucks
In an apparent effort to weed out his most King of Comedy-fucknuts fan (Hey, it’s actually not me!), Devin Townsend is selling his old spatula on eBay.
As of this writing, bidding on this most prized of kitchen utensils is up to a hundred bucks. That’s a hundred bucks for a used, burned spatula. About ninety-five dollars more than anyone would ever pay for a new spatula. Just because Devin Townsend, like, touched it.
So, yeah, 4/20 might have been last week, but better late than never — we have an awesome weed-themed contest for you!
Above you see a photo of an awesome, ONE OF A KIND, Silver Surfer-produced, Obscura vaporizer, with a retail value of $600. And we’re just gonna give it away to one lucky winner! Plus, oh yeah, some copies of Obscura’s orgasm-inducingly good new album, Omnivium (out now on Relapse — order one here!), and some sweet Obscura merch, too.
Here’s how you win:
And that’s it! We’re really stoked on this contest — remember, this is a one of a kind vaporizer that you cannot get anywhere else – so get crackin’! The more creative your entry, the better your chances of winning. Good luck!
And after the jump, check out more pics of the vaporizer in question, plus get tour dates for that Children of Bodom/Devin Townsend/Obscura/Septicflesh tour!
This week sees new releases by Graveyard, Periphery, Blut Aus Nord, Septicflesh, Winds of Plague, and tons more. MS new release expert Vic Vaughn takes a looksee at each after the jump!
Oh boy oh boy! We’re just days away from the release of The Great Mass, the new album from Greek metal titans, Septicflesh! But, as per usual, your pals Vince and Axl have managed to wrangle you an early taste of the goods — namely, the track “Oceans of Grey” If you like orchestral, operatic, epic, brutal fucking heavy metal, you will LOVE this… and if you don’t, well, we don’t wanna be friends with you anyway.
Check out the track below, then go here to pre-order The Great Mass before Season of Mist releases it on April 19. Septicflesh have just announced that they’ll spend the summer touring with Children of Bodom, Devin Townsend, and Obscura, which is a RAD line-up. Get dates here!
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It’s been almost a month since Devin Townsend spilled the beans that he was doing a summer tour with Children of Bodom — and now that tour has finally and officially been announced. That’s already a super-sexy package, but Obscura and Septicflesh are on the bill, too, which makes these shows downright unmissable.
And there’s really not much else to say, is there? It’s almost impossible for me to believe that any metal fan doesn’t love at least 75% of this bill.
Here are dates…
Septicflesh (SepticFlesh? Septic Flesh? Can someone please clear this shit up once and for all?) have released the album art for their forthcoming release, The Great Mass, and I have very little to say about it, other than “Me want t-shirt now pleeze.” Seriously. Passover is just a couple of weeks away and I don’t have a thing to wear to my sedar.
No Clean Singing tells me that the band’s own Seth Siro Anton made this art. So, bravo, Mr. Anton!
The Great Mass will be out April 19 on Season of Mist.
-AR
Two years ago Anton OyVey and I get pretty drunk and watched Septicflesh rip about forty people a new asshole at the inaugural Scion Rock Fest in Atlanta; I think most of the crowd was out by the main stage watching some trendy beardo band, but I don’t remember who it was. In any case, their set was friggin’ fantastic, as was watching Anton make invisible oranges and drunkenly stumble/air guitar.
Until that point I wasn’t a big Septicflesh fan, but they made me a believer. So I’m stoked to hear their new album, The Great Mass. And “The Vampire from Nazareth,” the new song they’re now giving away for free download here, suggests that I won’t be disappointed.
When we got an e-mail from reader Aaron Doenges claiming that Septicflesh’s song “Communion” was a rip-off of the old Meow Mix cat food jingle, our natural reaction was “What fucking drugs is this dude on?”
Then we listened to the song.
Holy shit.
In other news, I hear Rotting Christ are working on a metal version of the Doublemint Gum song.
-AR
As a man, I’m painfully aware that at any metal show the chances of me being squeezed between two sweaty fat dudes in the front row for 90 minutes is infinitely higher than me being near anything that remotely resembles a female. I say “resembles” because I still remember the time my buddy wrestled a “dude” to the floor of the Commodore Ballroom after they both caught either end of Jimmy Bower’s drumstick. The look on his face when he heard obscenities yelled at him in a screeched, soprano voice ranks pretty highly among my favorite concert memories.
This time the venue was familiar, the metal crowd certainly was not. Oh sure, I already expected the Cradle of Filth fans who can count more zippers, buckles and chains on their outfits than times they’ve heard their parents say they’re proud of them, but beyond platform soles and midnight blue dreadlocks there were many perfectly normal and some perfectly curvy women in attendance. Now, I’ve never really believed that Dani Filth could be a sex symbol for anyone old enough to buy beer, but I guess being the front man of a popular metal band can make even a hideous midget significantly more fuckable. Then again, the gals probably just came out to hear the music.
Oh yeah, you probably want to hear about the music.
