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No one knows QOTSA. Not even Dave.

Hey, do you know Queens Of The Stone Age‘s ‘No One Knows’ song? I do, but Dave Mustaine doesn’t. At least not by name, which is pretty ironic if you think about it.

When asked in a previous interview what his new album sounds like, Dave described it as a ‘Black Sabbath with a little bit of Queens Of The Stone Age‘ — which I can’t even imagine, really. But in another interview, Dave clears it all up (actually, no he doesn’t).

“Yeah, that’s a really bad quote that’s gotten out there. What I said was that it’s got some really super modern sounds , because that’s Johnny (K, producer)’s style. The sounds themselves ARE – LIKE – OLD – SABBATH! Right? Now, that doesn’t mean that the songs are like old Sabbath songs. The sound is. Some of the guitars. But when you put the guitars all together, you put the bass in there, and the drums, and you add the vocals, it doesn’t sound the same at all. And what I had said about Queens Of The Stone Age, I was talking about guitar sounds. I don’t know that band at all! I know one song. (He sings the riff from ‘No One Knows’)“

Read full interview here.

That makes a lot of sense now, doesn’t it? Didn’t think so. When are musicians gonna stop describing their upcoming albums as “<insert band here> meets <insert another band here>”? It will only enrage, confuse and annoy the fans.

But don’t worry, according to the same interview, the album will be ‘the best thing Dave has done in a long time.’ And we all know Dave likes to keep it modest, so if he says it’s the best, it has to be.  Right? RIGHT?

Make the jump to see the video for the song Dave was humming. It’s actually one of my favorite QOTSA songs.

Today’s Dose of Metal: Pantera

Remember this? I decided I’m gonna post, from time to time, a song from one of the bands mentioned in that day’s news.

DThis time it’s Pantera‘s turn, because of that awkward Phil interview below. Don’t be fooled by the Kiss thumbnail, it’s really Panfuckingtera.

Anyway, I love this song. I’m not a Reinventing The Steel fan at all, but this song kicks ass. Just listen to the riffs. Linkin Park would have made two albums out of the amount of riffs played in this single song.

The video is pretty funny, too. Albeit a bit cheesy, but that small Dimebag kid always puts a smile on my face (not in that way, sickos!).

St. Anger was an isolated incident

We may not be the best metal blog around. We’re even worse than some lame Blogspot ones, at least according to other metal sites (hint hint). But there’s one thing we do well, and that’s having sex. We’re amazing at that.

Aside from sex, we’re also quite good at putting some balls behind our interviews. Insulting our interviewees is the last thing on our minds, but we do try to ask atypical questions. When you read a DoM interview, you know it’s a DoM interview. It has the perfect mix of humor and retarded questions.

Why am I telling you all this? Well, because I just read an excerpt from an interview with Lars Ulrich, and I can’t help but think the interviewer has balls. Leave it to the Brits (it’s from a British magazine called Classic Rock) to ask the right questions.

“Classic Rock: Is it fair to say St. Anger is your worst album?
Lars: I think it’s fair to say that some people think that.

Classic Rock: Would you agree with them?
Lars: I can’t. The way I view the world, I can’t rank them from best to worst. That kind of simplicity just doesn’t exist for me. If I was 14, I could probably do it. Now, the way I see the world is nothing but greys, mainly.

Classic Rock: The drum sound on that record was abysmal.
Lars: That was on purpose. It wasn’t like we put it out and somebody went, “Whoa! Whoops!” I view St. Anger as an isolated experiment. I’m the biggest Metallica fan, you’ve got to remember that. Once again, as we’ve been known to do, once in a while these boundaries have to be fucked with. We’d already done Ride The Lightning, which I believe is a fine record. It didn’t need to be re-done.

Classic Rock: But even the good songs on St. Anger go on forever.
Lars: When we heard the record from beginning to end, I felt — and it was mostly me — that the experience was so pummeling, it became almost about hurting the listener, about challenging the listener, so we left the songs unedited. I can understand that people felt it was too long.“

The interviewer simply went for the kill. But not to insult Lars, just to ask him the questions all of us want to ask. A decade too late, but still.

Now, I do understand Lars had to avoid answering directly, he’s not just gonna admit one of his band’s studio efforts is bad. But did he really have to admit that James’ stage persona is fake and that he is insecure on the inside?

“He’s much sweeter and more vulnerable than people think he is. Most of that toughness, that he-man thing, that was just a façade for him to deal with his own insecurities.“

That will help with James’ metal cred.

The excerpt is from Blabbermouth, read a bit more here. I think you have to buy the magazine to read the whole thing. What’s a magazine, you ask? No idea, I don’t live in the 18th fucking century.

Phil Anselmo got interviewed

I’m not gonna lie, I consider Pantera one of the best metal bands of all time. I’ve watched their home videos countless times, Phil and Dimebag were my heroes.

But today’s Phil can barely string a sentence together. He bursts into laughter out of nowhere, he changes vocal pitch, I really have a hard time following him. I guess it’s the vegan lifestyle of orange juice and soya milk, eh?

Anyway, watch the interview above (if you can). He cites Kiss, Iron Maiden and Metallica as his influences and he talks about which instrument he prefers — the mic or the guitar.

Watch it go. Getcha’ pull.

Today’s Dose of Metal

Since this site is called Dose of Metal, we do a lot of ‘dose of metal’ posts where we give you, well, doses of metal.

I figured I’d add a thematic one, meaning it’s a clip from one of the bands written about in today’s news. Maybe I’ll do this daily, if I can be bothered.

Anyway, I’m starting with Trivium‘s Master Of Puppets cover.  It stops right where the song gets interesting (interlude, first solo, etc…) so I give it a 5 out of 10.