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Their hips don’t lie

Bellydance Metal band Shakra release new album! Wooo… It’s called “Back on Track.”

Band name sounds like a famous pop star? Check.
Album name sounds like an AC/DC album? Check.

This band has it all.

Anyway, there’s a bunch of teasers, trailers and a release date, but you should know me well enough by now to know I’m not gonna post all that. Go here for more details, or make the jump to watch Shakra‘s hit song, “Waka Waka.”

Great way to end the weekend

I can’t think of a better way to end my weekend than by listening to Jonathan Davis. Honestly. It’s the best thing ever! (right next to inserting needles up my dick)

So this weekend kicks ass cause Mr. KoRn himself decided to upload some solo tracks. Ain’t that sweet?

If you’re like me and you fancy your ears bleeding on a Sunday evening, make the jump and listen to these wonderful songs. Or have some musical fucking integrity and completely skip this post.

For an added bonus, you can also read comments left by Korn fans. Expect a lot of thoughts on pickup trucks and Nascar.

The Big Four love each other. Cue laugh track.

If you’re in the mood for a quick laugh, check out this excerpt I stole from Blabbermouth got from a recent Scott Ian interview. He’s explaining The Big Four tour.

“This isn’t a manufactured thing put together by management or record companies or anything like that. This is put together because these four bands have all been around for so long. We’re still at the top of our game and we all really get along well, and really do love each other, as lame as that sounds for a bunch of metal dudes.“

Read full interview here.

I’ll suspend my disbelief about the ‘manufactured’ part, I’ll pretend I didn’t read the ‘top of our game’ part, but I can’t take the ‘love’ part seriously.

All you have to do is do a quick search on Blabbermouth, and you’ll see how much these four bands love each other. Granted it was never Scott or anyone else from Anthrax doing the ‘loving’ in the press, but still, these bands tolerate each other at best, in my opinion.

I don’t want to make assumptions about people I haven’t met and things I don’t know about. I think it’s great that this Big Four thing is finally happening and I applaud them for ending their feuds, but this whole “ah, we’re all BFFs and are doing this cause we love each other” thing is pretty hard to take seriously. Especially after reading stuff like this.

But, what do I know? Last night I forgot to wipe after a messy shit and woke up with my underwear looking like one of those Rorschach inkblot tests.

Clowns settle feud

Mushroomhead and Slipknot have two things in common. Both bands wear masks. Both bands make bad music. So obviously, fan wars ensue.

Mushroomhead fans are annoyed because their favorite band ‘were first,’ as if wearing those shitty masks ‘first’ is any kind of achievement. Slipknot fans are annoyed because their IQ matches their age.

But according to a recent interview with the ‘original’ gimmicky band, the beef is non-existent now and then my mind drifted off to a different place because who the fuck cares?

If you do, make the jump for the video interview. Then never talk to me again.

Ozzy has a bucket list

Metal legend and bat aficionado Ozzy Osbourne has one big item on his bucket list…

“I often get asked this question: ‘Will there ever be a [new Sabbath] album?’ One thing I can say for definite [is] we are all talking, we are all friends. But it’s been 30 years since we did a studio album — if it’s not something extra, extra special, the people are gonna go, ‘We waited 30 years [for this…]’ But before my life’s over, I would love… my dream is to do the ultimate Black Sabbath album; I would love to do that.“

Listen to the interview here.

Wait… Ozzy was in Black Sabbath? WTF?