Even though we try to lay him down by the fire and give him all the good lovin’ he needs, Satan Rosenbloom is a metalholic, and consequently sometimes cheats on us with Decibel or his own blog, Ceberal Metalhead. And we’ve come to live with that. As long he gets tested every now and again, we’re good to go.

ANYWAY, his latest post at the aforementioned Cerebral Metalhead is about the dangers of headbanging – more specifically, the ill effects it can take on one’s neck. Mr. Rosenbloom is currently suffering through his own neck issues (which were, alas, not brought about by headbanging or any other kind of awesomeness), which led him to think about Evansuckence’s Terry Ballsucko, who, I was surprised to learn, was partially paralyzed after a headbanging-induced stroke. (Think about that for a second: HEADBANGING TOO MUCH CAN LEAD TO A FUCKING STROKE. And here we always thought that moshing and stage diving and getting stuck watching In This Moment while waiting for the next band at Hot Topic Fest were the most dangerous aspects of the metal lifestyle.) This, in turn, led him to seek out a British Medical Journal piece about the potentially terrible side effects of headbanging, as well as some tips on making headbanging a safer activity.

Go here to read Satan’s entire piece. It’s actually really, really interesting stuff.

Also, if you have your own headbanging-induced neck injuries, share your story below!

-AR

I saw Cold open for Marilyn Manson once. Even though it was a good month after Halloween (I recall only because it was Thanksgiving weekend), guitarist Terry Balsucko wore a Michael Meyers mask the whole set and stood almost perfectly still, hunched over his guitar as though he should be in the belfry at Notre Dame; vocalist Scooter Ward stood at the lip of the stage, smoking a cigarette and remaining otherwise completely stationary; and drummer Sam McCandless’ hair was dyed to look like a cheetah’s fur.

Needless to say, it was the most painful forty minutes of my life.

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Fuck Wes Borland, and fuck everyone who supported this lying sack of shit.

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“And the fifth angel blew his trumpet. And I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given him. And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun was darkened, also the air, by the smoke of the pit. And out of the smoke Limp Bizkit reunited and came forth upon the earth; and authority was given them, the same authority as the scorpions of the earth have.

“And in those days the men will seek death but will by no means find it, and they will desire to die but death keeps fleeing from them.”

Revelations 9:1-6

Ladies and gentlemen, Limp Bizkit have reunited.

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