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A fear of The Darkness

I think they should call it Darknessphobia. Or how about people with good taste syndrome? In advance I’d also like to apologize to anyone that thought this post would be about Iron Maiden, you must be hugely disappointed.

Instead, I’m talking, of course, about that lame British Rock band, The Darkness, that gained much success at the start of the century for playing a ‘Pop’d’ up, simplistic by-numbers rendition of what vastly superior bands had been doing twenty-thirty plus years earlier.

For those that didn’t know (lucky you), the band reformed earlier this year, playing the main stage at the UK’s Download festival. Speaking with Total Guitar magazine, frontman Justin has announced that their comeback album is nearly finished. Oh yay…

Justin also reveals some of what he likes to get up to in his spare time.

“Do you cup the sack while administering said blowjob? Do you pop a finger up the arse? We have to decide how the happy ending goes.”

Wait, what? What’s that got to do with the new album?

[source: Blabbermouth]

One more time: Up the Irons!

I was just thinking of a headline for this particular news post about Iron Maiden, and ‘one more time’ sprung into my mind. And then I had the above song by Daft Punk stuck in my head. The mind works in mysterious ways.

So let’s get on topic: We’re in for, at least, one more Iron Maiden album! That’s right, The Last Sucker Final Frontier was not Maiden’s last album, according to Bruce Dickinson:

“The singer (…) believes Maiden will make “at least one more album” to follow last year’s chart-topping 15th record The Final Frontier.”

That’s what he said to the Daily Star, and he added:

“Things have been going a bit more prog-rock on our recent albums and the fans seem to love that.”

You know, I’m actually a bit split on that now. I’m happy that Iron Maiden put their retirement on hold (for, what seems like, the 1.000th time), but I was not a big fan of The Final Frontier, nor A Matter Of Life And Death. I don’t dislike Matter… but I do dislike Frontier. Let’s put it some other way, because you simply can’t dislike any Iron Maiden album: I don’t care for The Final Frontier.

So I would have liked the band to go back to their Brave New World sound but, I guess, we’re in for another snoozefest. Oh well, yay either way.

Eating bats is bad for your teeth

I’m here sitting in my hotel, having breakfast and checking the metal news, because a metalhead’s work is never done, not even when he’s away from home.

This is how you know you’re a loser, when even in a restaurant, you’re on your laptop, ‘blogging.’ But personal shortcomings aside, I ran across this piece of news about Ozzy which is pretty funny. Well, anything about Ozzy is pretty funny, including Ozzy himself (most of the time unintentionally).

So, two of Ozzy‘s front teeth fell out. I know, I know, I’ve only Photoshopped one, but it sucks making images on a dumb laptop, so you’ll have to bear with me.

Why did they fall out though? Bad hygiene? Too many bats? Sharon punched him? All of the above? I don’t know, and I don’t care, but every time I find a reason to Photoshop an Ozzy photo and make some bat puns, I do it. Even when I’m away.

So Ozzy, next time you try to bite the head off a flying mouse, at least chew some gum afterwards or something.

Happy Dream Theater drummer is happy

Dream Theater’s Mike Mangini (not to be confused with Mike Mangina, which is my porn name) is very happy to be in Dream Theater. I don’t blame him, I hadn’t heard of him before he joined this band.

“I’m stunned at the crowds on this tour. I really am having so much fun that I can’t wait to get back on stage. One more show: Budapest. As the rest of shows were, too, the Athens crowd just rocked the Earth all the way to Africa tonight. EVERY crowd has simply gotten the band’s message loud and clear and I’m so happy to be a part of all this joy.“

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Five Finger Death Punch are not ashamed

But they should be. Mainly of their music, but also of their name.

The new Five Finger Death Punch album, American Capitalist, apparently has a controversial title. I don’t think it is, do you? Maybe ‘American Communist’ or ‘American Nazi’ would be controversial, but what’s wrong with that one? Just because the U.S. is in debt? Please…

So Jason Hook — the guitarist, in case, like me, you don’t know who the fuck he is — had this to say in an interview:

“You know, it’s kind of like dog eat dog, it’s the survival of the fittest, and we’re sort of putting it out there as a positive thing. It’s like, we are American capitalists, we will divide and conquer, we will — we’re going for the throat and we’re not ashamed to say that.“

LOLWUT?

I’d be more ashamed of that quote right there than of any album title.

[Source: The Pulse Of Radio/Blabbermouth]