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Iron Maiden mastermind

I always thought being a huge fan of a band was about their music and the way you relate to it, not about how many obscure facts you know about them. But I must be in the minority, because whenever I talk to a fan about his favorite band, he always seems to sheepishly insert or allude to trivia nobody gives a fuck about, just to prove how big a fan he is. Oh right, so you know in what year Lars Ulrich bought his first condom? You must get Metallica, man.

Anyways,  there’s a British show called “Mastermind” which glorifies these types of fans, and right now it’s Iron Maiden‘s turn. Some 27 year old fan will apparently answer questions about his favorite band on TV or something like that, I really didn’t have the patience to read the whole article. Think you do? Then read it here.

Make the jump to see a Metallica fan on the very same show. Make the jump off a bridge if you knew all the right answers, too.

Def Leppard are going on tour

According to Blabbermouth, Def Leppard might be going on a two-month tour with Heart and Kansas. Or are they doing the tour in Kansas? Fuck it if I know.

Well, on one hand, I don’t really care, but on the other hand… Well, there’s no other hand.

Lemmy likes the penny

There’s a beer commercial featuring Mötorhead playing a slowed down version of “Ace of Spades.” Why did they do it?

“We got paid a lot of money” said Lemmy.

Wow, what a surprise. And here I was thinking you just did it for the fans, cause they like beer. At least he’s honest about it.

Make the jump to see the ad.

Chester has an opinion.

Every time a tragedy occurs, you get an onslaught of celebrities commenting on the event in the press, as if anyone really cares what they think.

To be fair to Chester Bennington, he’s not a celebrity, so his commenting on the recent Arizona shooting makes sense. Especially since he’s also from Arizona, so, you know, he must ‘get’ it.

“We live in a crazy world. There’s no explanation for it. I personally feel that violence and war and murder are primitive, and I think that we’ve evolved as a species beyond that. Unfortunately some people still feel that’s a means to an end”

Read full interview here.

I’d take Chester a bit more seriously if he didn’t have two huge earrings with the symbol of death on them. Or if he wasn’t responsible for either this, this, this or this. But I know what he means.

When asked if he’d make an exception and get primitive on Mike Shinoda’s ass for turning Linkin Park into Daft Punk, Chester had no comment.

Trent Reznor is ruining another film

I don’t know about you guys, but watching ‘The Social Network‘ with Trent‘s soundtrack felt like trying to watch a movie with someone blasting NIN next door. So you can see why I’m so excited to report that he is scoring yet another film.

“Trent Reznor revealed in a streaming video interview with The New York Times that he is composing the score for “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”, the American film version of the best-selling thriller about an underground computer hacker teaming with a journalist to investigate a dark conspiracy. The director of the movie is David Fincher.”

Watch interview after the jump.

I have an idea. Trent should just score every movie that comes out. Or they could come out without a soundtrack and you just take your iPod in the cinema and blast some NIN. It all sounds the fucking same, anyway.