Author Archives: Alex
Alter Bridge have a video interview
Alter Bridge got interviewed.
Whoever interviewed them uploaded the clip on YT.
Blabbermouth posted about it.
Alex read it on Blabbermouth.
Alex decided to post it here, too, in spite of being a day too late and pretty uninteresting.
You are now reading this lazy article.
I’ve wasted your time.
Supreme Pain have a new drummer
Dutch metal band Supreme Pain (who?) announced a new drummer: Eric De Windt. (who?)
According to Supreme Pain…
“Eric is a very experienced musician and was part of many bands, such as Severe Torture (vocalist), Sinister (vocals on ‘Aggressive Measures’) and Prostitute Disfigurement, Inhume and DESTROYER666 (drums). At the moment he is also drummer for the Dutch death metal band Temple.“
Yeah, I don’t know who any of those guys are, so they might as well make up some names, too, just to add to his resume.I do like those names though… Prostitute Disfirgurement, Destroyer666, those are all names I used on AOL’s messenger a few years ago. Awesome.
I guess you can watch videos of the band performing with him after the jump. Good on ya’ if you know who they are though, I don’t — nor do I want to find out.
Dimmu Borgir got interviewed.
Slow news this weekend, and very lazy writers… So I’m gonna post a bunch of video interviews cause they require little to no effort on my part.
Rolling Stone’s Top 100 guitarists of all time makes Alex laugh
So Rolling Stone magazine has a new Top 100 out, and it’s about the best guitarists of all time… Now, I do know how hard it must be to put such a top together, you have to take a lot of things into consideration, and no matter what, people will always be disappointed.
But I really think this Top is overall a piece of shit. I’m sorry, nothing against the magazine, but it just makes me laugh.
James Hetfield is ranked 87th. Dimebag is ranked 92nd. You know what Tom Morello is ranked? Fucking 40th.
I mean I got nothing against the guy, but how can the guy who uses every pedal in the goddamn universe rank about 50 places higher than two of the most influential metal guitarists? He’s even four places higher than Mark Knopfler, and that really is an amazing guitarist. Take away all of his pedals, what does Tom have, anyway, when compared to those three?
Kurt Cobain is also ranked higher than Dime and Jaymz.
Now, about the first places, I do agree with them. Jimi Hendrix is, of course, in first place, followed by Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Other wonderful guitarists are very high up, which is another plus for the article — Chuck Berry (7th), Eddie Van Halen (8th), Angus Young (24th) and Tony Iommi (25th).
I do have a problem with Keith Richards getting number four. I mean, I love the Stones, and I think they’re wonderful — they also put an amazing show live. But is Keith really above all those other names? I know it’s probably his writing, not his proficiency, that got him there… But the fourth guitarist of all time? I don’t think so. Are they biased cause they share (almost) the same name as his band?
The whole top is a mess, and metalheads got fucked. Rolling Stone usually has great articles, so how could this happen?
Oh, the guy who plays guitar in Blink-182 was one of the voters. Alongside him, Billy Corgan and a shitload of people I never heard of. Well, with such a roster of amazing talents (such as the dude in Blink), no wonder they screwed it up.
Good job on *most* of the first places, but shame on you for neglecting or underestimating some fine metal guitarists. Hope you redeem yourself, Rolling Stone.
You can read the full article here. Keep in mind that it has that awful image scroller thing, so you can only browse it one name at a time. If you want a headache-free list of the Top 100, make the jump.
