Author Archives: Guido

Get admitted to the clinic

I may not know what exactly a clinic is but I’m sure it has nothing to do with the picture above. Why post a picture like that then, you may ask? Well, because I can and I needed filler text for the intro. Worked quite well, didn’t it?

So, as you already know, because you’re reading Dose of Metal daily and all you do in your free time is talk to your friends about our news posts and articles, Megadeth’s David Ellefson and Anthrax’s Frank Bello, arguably the two nicest guys of the Big Four, played a couple of bass clinics together.

But that’s not news anymore, is it? No, but the nice Dave of Megadeth and Bello are joining forces for another clinic and this time Mike Portnoy and Frank Bello’s uncle will join them. Bello’s uncle? Well, Anthrax’s Charlie Benante, you dummy. Know your metal facts!

Want more info about this particular clinic? Make the jump to see the flyer, that has all the infos you need.

Weekly Dose of Metal: Be’lakor

Melodic Death Metal from Australia. If that doesn’t get you interested, I don’t know what will. Be’lakor play a very melodic and at times depressive style of Melodic Death Metal, taking obvious influences from Amon Amarth, among others.

The band started in 2004 and released two albums so far, ‘The Frail Tide’ in 2007 and ‘Stone’s Reach’ in 2009. Both albums follow a similar formula without the band repeating themselves. When I’m thinking about Melodic Death Metal, Be’lakor are one of the first bands that pop into my mind and knowing that there’s a huge list of Melo-Death bands out there, that’s a great thing.

‘Venator’ is the first song on the second album and gives you a nice introduction into Be’lakor’s style of Metal.

Ian out, Kisser in

Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser, you know the guy who can’t make up his mind, will be replacing Scott Ian for eight Anthrax shows in July.

Why? Because Scott Ian and his wife, Meat Loaf’s daughter Pearl Aday, are expecting their first baby. As a representative of Dose of Metal, I want to congratulate Ian’s sperm.

No Kiss for two

I’ll be honest with you. I think Kiss look like a bunch of transvestites and all they do is play shitty pop music and nothing about them is shocking at all. To me, these guys play in the same league as Bon Jovi. I hate both of these bands.

But on to the news. Paul Stanley, the guy with the Peggy Bundy haircut, the star around the eye and the red lipstick said the following about a reunion of the original Kiss line-up in a recent interview:

“The word that comes up is ‘closure.’ We had a good time that deteriorated over time. When we did the farewell tour I realized I didn’t want to say farewell to KISS, I wanted to say farewell to two of the members.”

Now, I know that Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are in the band but that’s it. I also know that they had like 20,000 other bandmembers but I don’t know any of them by name. So, if you’re a Kiss fan, I have some advices for you: #1 Start listening to better music, #2 Stop painting your face, you look like a woman, #3 Use Wikipedia to research who Stanley was talking about.

Spotlight: The Evil Amidst, Immanifest, St. Madness

Time to turn on the spotlight and review three bands that contacted us via our ‘Your Band’ form. If you’re in a band and would like to be featured on this spectacular site, contact us here.

Go on after the jump.