Author Archives: Guido

New Anthrax album in September (?)

I would still give my left arm to hear the original version of Worship Music, with Dan Nelson on vocals, but Anthrax are moving forward and Worship Music, with Joey Belladonna on vocals, has a release date.

Yes, you read that right. It finally has a release date. When? According to Blabbermouth, who got that news from Rockline Radio, it’s set to be released on September 13 (in the US. One day earlier in Europe).

On the Rockline website, in the Calendar, you can find the following date:

9.12.11
Anthrax
National Radio Premiere: “Worship Music“

So, that’s finally some good news about ‘Thrax. Let’s hope they’ll stay true to that date and not postpone it again.

Kerrang votes Most Influential Rock Bands

So first off, I need to set the record straight. I’ve never bought or read a Kerrang! magazine myself, just like I’ve never read a Metal Hammer magazine. The only metal magazines I get once in a while are Nuclear Blast’s BLAST! magazine and a couple more Merchandising magazines. I’m informing you of that because I want to make clear that my following rant is not meant to be offensive towards a magazine I’ve never even read myself.

With that being said, Kerrang! magazine are having a Top 10 — about the most influential rock groups of the last 30 years — in their next issue and, at first look, it’s incredibly bad and people on other websites are already bitching about it. But you have to take three things into consideration before you make a judgement about said list.

1. The list was voted by the readers of Kerrang! magazine, therefore it’s not Kerrang’s fault if the list is garbage.
2. A Top 10 list, especially about a topic like that, is pretty hard to tackle and some people are always going to disagree with some, or all, of the places.
3. Commenters on Blabbermouth are bitching. So fucking what? That’s all this site is known for.

Now, make the jump to finally see the list and to read my comments about each band, that made the list.

Kiss make the Guinness Book

Nope sorry, we’re not talking about the beer. Even though, I’d rather have a cold Guinness right now, than write about Kiss. But what can you do when you’ve sworn an oath of metal?

So Kiss made the Guinness Book of World Records. How so? Was it about the longest tongue? Most greedy human beings in the history of mankind? No no, I’m just kidding. Please don’t sue me, Mr. Simmons.

They set a world record for “Most Nationalities In An Online Chat.” No shit. They have records for that. How useful. Apparently some website hosted a chat called “KISS Live & Global” representing 92 nationalities from around the world.

Nice. Most useless trivia ever posted on this site.

James Hetfield in the Hall of Fame

Just yesterday none other than Metallica’s James Hetfield was inducted into the Downey High School Hall of Fame.

Wait, High School Hall of Fame? What? Since when do high schools have Hall of Fames? Where was I when that happened and why did nobody ask me about my opinion?

This is not news. Next.

Video of the Week: Black Label Society

An obvious choice, for a huge Pan-fucking-tera and Dimebag fan like myself, Black Label Society’s tribute to the late Dimebag Darrell — ‘In This River’ — just had to make Video of the Week sooner or later.

Even though the song wasn’t written with Dime in mind, as it was written prior to his death, the video for this song is probably still the greatest tribute to the late guitar-god. And the song just works perfectly here.

Just sit back, hit play and remember one of the greatest metal guitarists of all time. Getcha Pull.