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Metallica are keeping it black
Metallica have announced more dates in which they will perform ‘the black album’ in its entirety. Here’s a list of the shows announced so far:
June 01 – Nürnberg, Germany – Rock Im Park
June 02 – Nürburgring, Germany – Rock Am Ring
June 09 – Donington, England – Download
June 10 – Nickelsdorf, Austria – Nova Rock
Playing the Black album is cool in theory, only, what am I supposed to do at the frontlines pressed against the barrier when the shit songs get played? I guess I better take my Game Boy for those moments.
Bleeding Through set to complete new album
Bleeding Through, a band amazingly not named after the female menstrual cycle (I prefer the male menstrual cycle personally), will apparently finish work on their brand new album, The Great Fire, today. The record is due for release in early 2012.
Bleeding Through‘s last album was pretty damn good despite only selling around 3,700 copies in its first week in the US, so I’m actually quite looking forward to this. It seems the band have improved with age, yet their sales have taken a dive. I guess that could mostly be attributed to changing markets and the industry shifting, blah blah etc. Sucks though, Bleeding Through are more than what their image perpetuates.
Friday Top 10: Black Sabbath songs (original lineup)
It’s official, the original lineup has reformed, back to do it all — world tour, new album and destroy all that is not Metal. 2012 will no doubt be a fantastic year for meatheads metalheads like me.
Not long ago I counted down the top 10 Sabbath albums, and now, hot off the news that the original lineup are back, it seems like the perfect time to list the top 10 Black Sabbath songs, only this time I’m going to keep it strictly to songs by the original lineup. It just makes sense.
So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and make the jump!
Rihannica
Rihanna sucks. She doesn’t just suck though, she really sucks (although I wouldn’t complain if she were to suck… never mind). If you like Rihanna, you probably have the taste of a dead corpse (yes, as opposed to those live corpses you sometimes see). Honestly, the day she stops releasing music would be a great day indeed.
By now, you’re probably wondering what Rihanna has to do with metal. Well, it turns out she has sampled some of Metallica‘s ‘Whereever I May Roam’ for her new song, ‘Red Lipstick’, which is just horrendous. First we have to listen to Lou Reed mumbling senile crap over the top of Metallica, and now we have to listen to Rihanna whining over some ‘Tallica riffs. Is nothing sacred?
