In Which We Lost Our MVP

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And now, the week’s top stories!

• Dave Lombardo is out of Slayer again, and we don’t think anyone can replace him.
• We debuted new music by East of the Wall and Lock Up.
• Brendon Small from Brendon Small’s Galaktikon told us about his favorite festival experience, and Alex Skolnick from Testament told us about his live rig.
• West Texas A&M University launched a course on metal lyrics.
• Shock of shocks, David Draiman’s new band sucks as bad as his old one.
• MetalGF saw Gojira.
• We gave you a run-down of everything we know about the new album from The Ocean thus far.
• We tried to figure out what the numbers on Meshuggah’s set list mean.
• Shining won a $180k grant and vowed to tour the U.S.
• We listened to metal versions of theme songs from Studio Ghibli movies.

I hope you all have a very nice weekend. Vince will be back next week so you won’t have to put up with quite as much of my shit. ‘Til then, my lovelies…