The Great Kat might’ve been batshit crazy or it might’ve been an Andrew W.K.-style put-on, but after watching the below clip filmed in 1994 (!) in which she describes her new interactive CD-ROM (!) I’m convinced that she was absolutely brilliant and way ahead of her time. Srsly: who else was doing this shit in 1994? For those of you who are too young to remember CD-ROMs (oh gawd I feel old), they were kinda like DVDs with graphical interfaces that included special bonus content you couldn’t get anywhere else ; it was basically like a website on a disc (this was before widespread Internet access and before broadband made streaming video possible).

The money quote: “Within a couple of years everyone will have CD ROMs, everyone will be online, everyone will have a website. As a matter of fact, I’m getting a website. Do you know what a website is?” She adds, “This is what the future is.” This was in 1994, people; no bands had websites yet, and there were certainly no MySpace or Facebook pages. My family was still running a Mac SE at the time connecting to AOL through a 28.8kbps modem… come to think of it, I don’t think we even had a modem yet.

It’s kind of amazing how simultaneously obsessed with the music of the past and locked into the technology of the future The Great Kat is in this clip. She’s so sincere about her love of classical music and so cock-sure of the direction technology will head in the 21st Century… was she onto something or what? Makes me reconsider brushing off her remark about Testament as “mind-numbing, drug-inducing garbage.”

-VN

Thanks: Shane Gillis

It goes without saying that an attractive women at a metal show is about as common as a MetalSucks reader who’s seen a vagina somewhere other than the internet. That’s why things like Revolver‘s “12 Hottest Chicks In Metal” calendar are little more than a cheap lie: a more honest title would be “Complete List of Hot Chicks in Metal.”

With such a shortage of ass, metal hotties are in high demand, and men are forced to make tough choices — and what tougher choice is there to make than the classic game of FUCK, MARRY, OR KILL? If you aren’t familiar, FMK is a game in which you are given a list of three names and must choose which one you would fuck, marry and kill. I figured it would be good practice for readers to choose which metal hotties they would eff, marry and kill — check out the menu after the break!

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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.