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Mushroomhead still exist?

Super original masked (face-painted?) Metallers, Slipknot Mushroomhead, have shocked people across the world, by not only showing that they still exist, but that they also have a new album out, titled Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children. Guess it describes Mushroomhead fans perfectly – Not very nice of the ‘shroomyheads to say though. Ouch.  The entire album is available for streaming at AOL Music.

Check out the Slipknot Mushroomhead video preview after the jump.

Halford likes cars

Judas Priest legend, Rob Halford, has a brand spanking new album coming out tomorrow (if you’re American that is.  If you’re from the rest of the world, it’s probably already out), and once again he has a shit cover for the album.  The album is titled Made of Metal, and what better to represent Metal than… NASCAR? What is Halford thinking?

So, should you care? Probably not; it neither has the words Judas nor Priest, in the title, and his last solo effort wasn’t great, so I think I might just give it a miss. At least the man doesn’t need to mask his vocals with horrid chorus and auto-tune effects like another certain Metal legend though *cough* Ozzy Osbourne *cough*

See what the album artwork looks like after the jump (seriously, I wouldn’t bother though).

Fact of the Day

Many rockstars and musicians suffer with drug addiction and alcoholism during their careers.  However, not Gene Simmons of Kiss.  Instead, Gene Simmons is apparently addicted to sex, and claims he has slept with more than 5000 women in his lifetime.

Us clever-clogs at Dose of Metal, after much calculation, worked out that this works out at around 5000 minutes Gene could have spent thinking up new ways to sell out write music.

I wonder if he uses those “Kiss Kondoms”… *shudder*

Picture after the jump.

I actually bought this crap: Staind

More than ten years ago, Nu Metal was at the peak of its popularity.  Kids everywhere were wearing backwards baseball caps and baggy pants, and instead of just whinging about their parents like the emo kids of today, they were full on breaking stuff (see Woodstock 1999).

At some point during this peak in popularity, a band that actually differed greatly from their contemporaries in Nu-Metal, Staind, burst onto the scene.  Note, however, that by “different”, I do NOT mean in a good way.  In addition, apparently they weren’t different enough to not follow the trend of taking a word, spelling it wrong and using that as the name of their band.

Somehow, and I have no fucking idea how they managed to pull it off, Staind  tricked people into thinking they were a cutting edge Metal band.  Read on after the jump to see what I make of the band.

Steven Adler (who?) wants GNR reunion

Steven Adler, original (ish) Guns N’ Roses drummer (AKA the one from GNR no one really cares about), is still after a reunion.  It may have been 23 years since Appetite for Destruction was released, and 20 years since Adler was fired from the band, but he’s still banging on about Guns n’ Roses and looking for a reunion of the “original lineup”.

In a recent interview Adler claims that the reason he wants a reunion so badly, is that the original band never finished what they started.  The problem with this claim though, is they did finish what they started Steven, they just finished without you.  Let it go.  Or do what Axl did, and hire a bunch of professional musicians and pretend you’re still Guns N’ Roses. I hear that’s working well for him.

Funny that the only member really looking for a reunion is the one that needs the cash…  Check out the interview over at Blabbermouth.