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Asomvel singer died
Asomvel frontman Jay Jay Winter (pictured above, on the far left) was killed in a car crash. It makes us sad whenever we lose a metalhead, even if he’s from a band most people probably haven’t heard of. Here’s what happened:
Jay Jay Winter, the lead singer and bassist of the U.K.-based metal band Asomvel, was killed in a car crash this past Monday, October 18. He was 43 years old.The surviving members of the band said in a statement, “Jay was driving home when en route he was forced off the road by another driver’s incompetence. Jay later died in hospital from the injuries he sustained.”
What can we say, except R.I.P. And instead of a minute of silence, take a minute of your time and check the band’s MySpace page.
Dead… By April
Dead By April, the band I didn’t know about until like 3 minutes ago, have lost their guitar player. He didn’t die, he quit. I’m so crushed over this, I’ll be spending the rest of the night drinking my ass off. Here’s the announcement:
Guitarist Johan Olsson has left the Swedish “pop/metal” band Dead By April. He says in a statement, “We have had some differences and been going in different directions for a while and there’s always a certain point you reach when you need to really decide if you can go forward together or not. So I have decided to leave Dead By April to focus mainly on my own music and bands. Also give time to my other projects like my clothing company, Suckerpunch Clothing, as well as of course my family and friends.
Let me take a wild guess, one direction was pop, the other was metal? Judging by the fact he has a clothing company, we’ll label him pop. If you happen to like this band, feel free to compare the before and after albums (if the second happens) and let us know what has changed, since I saw one of their music videos (you can too if you continue reading) and I don’t plan on doing anything similar ever again.
A perfect rehearsal
Attention Maynard James Keenan A Perfect Circle fans, the band just posted rehearsal footage online. I know what you’re already thinking, Maynard is a genius and the band is the best ever so this clip must be awesome… Let’s balance that out by me saying it’s nothing other than 37 seconds of random noise and artsy lame camera angles. Angry about that? Angry I posted a picture of Billy Howerdel instead of you know who? Then you know how Maynard felt when his wine business didn’t earn him enough so he had to reunite this band… Video after the jump.
Gene Simmons vs. Anonymous
What’s funnier than a bitter 61-year old arguing with a bunch of teen “hackers” with too much free time on their hands? Especially when that old guy is Gene Simmons, and when the kids are Anonymous… Probably a lot of things, but you make your choice of the humor sites you visit…
Anyway, do you remember how about a week ago I wrote about how Gene Simmons is threatening to sue everyone who downloads music (that’s pretty much half the planet). The exact words being “Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars.”. It rubbed someone the wrong way, so Anonymous launched a DDoS attack and screwed up his website. The old guy got angry, the kids did it again. His rant after the first attack is pretty funny (by my low standards), so read it after the jump.
New "Dead Kennedys"
Pictured above is the real band. This news article is about the tribute band, who nobody cares about enough to even take a picture of.
In my book, Dead Kennedys have been dead ever since Jello quit. But the other guys from the band seem to disagree. Probably because the bills don’t pay themselves, and using old fame is easier than doing stuff on your own. Anyway, it seems that the band (call it as you wish) recently played two new songs for the first time, called You’re Such A Fake (what a hilarious title coming from them) and Area 51. They also played a reworked version of MTV Get Off The Air, called MP3 Get Off The Web, which is about “people downloading MP3s and how much they suck for doing it.”. And that is what really pissed me off. Why? Because of this:
Not involving myself and whether I agree with downloading mp3’s or not, can this excuse of a band be any further away from what they used to stand for? I don’t think so. Videos after the jump, if you’re one of the very few people who care about Dead Dead Kennedys.
