Author Archives: Guido

Kerry King performs with Megadeth (Video)

As reported earlier today, Kerry King of Slayer performed with Megadeth yesterday at the last concert of the ‘Big 3’ (Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax) tour, in California.

This marked the first time Kerry King performed with Megadeth since 1984, when King joined Megadeth for a short time.

Watch the video of ‘Rattlehead’ being performed by this bunch after the jump.

Axl Rose doesn't like Bentley's

According to TMZ.com Axl Rose got sued by Bentley Financial Services for beating the shit out of a car.

Well, not really but according to the lawsuit, Rose owes the company $73,976.42 in payments and fees on the car, which he returned months after the actual due date and had some serious damage (the car, not Rose).

The car, a 2006 Bentley Flying Spur car,had a cracked windshield, two damaged tires, broken glass on the left rear tail light, two dented doors and a gouged bumper. Also, he allegedly turned in a “mismatched spare key” and a “broken remote key,” and he was 42,397 miles over his contracted limit.

Sounds like a drive-by on Slash gone wrong.

Source: TMZ.com

Anthrax haven't forgotten about S.O.D.

Who remembers the Stormtroopers of Death? S.O.D. were one of the most influential Crossover Thrash bands of the mid-80’s. The band consisted of Scott Ian and Charlie Benante of Anthrax, Dan Lilker of Nuclear Assault and formerly of Anthrax, too and some completely untalented, racist fat guy called Billy Milano.

Recently Ian and Benante proved that they haven’t forgotten about S.O.D. when they performered the band’s classic ‘Milk’ during soundcheck, at their current tour with Slayer and Megadeth, with Megadeth’s Shawn Drover and Anthrax bassist Frankie Bello.

Video after the jump.

New Down album in 2011

According to Pepper Keenan we’re getting a new Down album in Summer 2011.

“Right now we’re working on new material, so we’re trying to keep up more of a brisk pace, once we get some new shit out. We’re moving backwards towards the “Nola” sound, go-for-the-throat kind of shit. We’re not putting too much time into the production of it, like the last two records we did. Which I enjoyed doing, but now it’s time to go backwards a little bit, have some fun. So maybe this summer.” […] “2011 summer. Bank on it, kid.”

When asked about the rumors that Down are going to release an EP, Pepper had the following to say;

“Well it’s more than a four-song EP, but we’re talking about finally getting this thing together. I don’t wanna go into any detail yet, but it’s going to be pretty massive. The first EP will be the first section of a whole big deal we’re working on. It’s gonna be fucking nuts.”

Read the complete interview here.

And now a wild guess: The next Down album is going to be called… Down V (because ‘Diary of a Mad Band’ was Down IV). Oh yeah, I’m smart.

John Bush doesn't want Anthrax

One of the former Anthrax singers (#7 and #9) John Bush recently did an interview for the Mars Attacks podcast, talking about why he didn’t want to re-join Anthrax on a permanent basis, after playing a couple of concerts with them last and early this year.

“The main factor was that I felt like it wasn’t really time for me to resume my lead singer role in Anthrax on a permanent basis. I kind of felt like not enough time had elapsed. You’ve gotta remember that the last Anthrax record was ‘We’ve Come For You All’, of original material, so if I would have [gone] back in and re-recorded [the vocal tracks on the unreleased Anthrax album ‘Worship Music’, which was completed with lead singer Dan Nelson] and resumed my position in the band, there would have been nothing in between that, and I just didn’t think that was… It didn’t feel right.”

On not joining Metallica in the early 1980’s, despite being asked to, Bush had the following to say;

“[Joining Metallica] just wasn’t my fate, it wasn’t my destiny. It would have changed metal in the most gigantic of ways and I wasn’t meant to do that. Of course I was always flattered that those guys had an interest in me way back. You’ve gotta remember — this was, like, around [the time of the release of Metallica’s] ‘Kill ‘Em All’ [1983]. It was way back early in the stages of their career and Armored Saint. And Armored Saint was doing well; we were starting to escalate in our popularity. So I didn’t wanna just go join some other band. I was , like, ‘Hey, this is my band, these are my friends. You guys are great, but I’m cool here.’ So it wasn’t my destiny and I can’t even imagine what life would have been like; who knows what would have happened? I would say it would have much more of a bigger mistake to not join Anthrax.”

Read more excerpts of the interview or listen to the whole podcast here.