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2 shades of grey

Two of the greatest mediocre Metal vocalists of the last 10/15 years are joining forces for a New Year’s Eve concert. If celebrating New Year’s, drinking, partying and having un-protected sex is a little too adventurous for you, why not just go to sleep at an Aaron Lewis (Staind) and Corey Taylor (Stone Sour/Slipknot) concert? The gig will be at Carol Morsani Hall at The Straz Center in Tampa, Florida on December 31st. Sounds like a blast right? Maybe Corey will come out in his slippers and with a pipe.

Find more information at this location.

Corey wants a U.K. number one

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman, Mr “I want to slit your throat and f*ck the wound” Corey Taylor, has joined the other pop artists in their bids for a U.K. Christmas number one. Not sounding desperate at all, Santa Taylor, has promised fans a “huge surprise” if they do get him to the top spot in the U.K.

His biggest rivals come from the X Factor winner, John Cage‘s 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, Trashmen‘s Surfin’ Bird (they have good taste in the U.K.) and basically every single other song that’s currently in the top 75.

Check out the video for the song after the jump, or read more information over at Blabbermouth.

Ozzy rates his own album

Legendary vocalist and Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, recently revealed his top 10 albums of 2010. Being not biased, and completely modest, Ozzy didn’t include his own album in the top 10… Or rather, you wouldn’t think he would, but instead he only went and ranked his own album at the number one spot. Wow, the audacity of the man. But he did also include Korn in his list, so you can just dismiss his top 10 now.

Check out Ozzy‘s top 10 list after the jump if you’re interested (and you shouldn’t be).

Jagermeister do music

You know, when I first heard that Jagermeister would be doing a US tour, I booked my ticket to the States straight away. And then I heard that this isn’t a ’round the US trip, involving drinking lots of Jagermeister and generally doing what I do best; getting incredibly drunk. No, this is actually a Metal tour. So I can hear you crying out now “what’s wrong with that Mark?” I mean you’d think that’s even better wouldn’t you? Well, Hellyeah are playing… Need I say anymore? So of course, I cancelled all my plans and just went to the pub instead.

Also on the bill are Buckcherry, All That Remains and The Damned Things. Dates after the jump.

Whitechapel announce UK tour

Fortunately Whitechapel have absolutely nothing to do with chapels, so if you’re a UK citizen, fear not, this is not an announcement of some Christian fellowship tour (hey, it is Christmas, it could happen). Unfortunately though, this is a deathcore tour. So you might have to avoid this one if you value your hearing and don’t want to witness hundreds of oily skinned, sweaty kids with straightened fringes break dancing in the middle of pits.

As always, dates and venues after the jump.