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Pestilence frontman an articulate man

The mainman of Dutch Death Metallers Pestilence, Patrick Mameli, was recently interviewed by Blistering.com.

Some of the excerpts of the interview can be found over at Blabbermouth. Patrick talked about some really interesting stuff regarding the band (zzzzz), but the only thing that’s going to make headlines is that he expressed his wish that he could beat up ‘any fucking person on Blabbermouth’.

Nice bloke.

Pestilence‘s new album, Doctrine, is being released in North America on July 19 via Mascot Records.

Yes… it’s that time… Headlines!

Is ‘Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?’ an album you really enjoy?  If so, go over to AOL and stream the remastered version. I’ve listen to a few of the remastered songs and they sound great! If you don’t own the album, I suggest buying it because a) it rules and b) you can’t go wrong with a lot of bonus tracks!

Jag Panzer lost a guitar player. No, not the one that we interviewed earlier this year – it was the other dude. Christian Lasegue (pictured above) left the band for “college studies.” ‘The Scourage of the Light‘ is one of the best albums of 2011, so it sucks when a band as good as Jag Panzer doesn’t sell much. Oh well, that happens a lot in the metal world.

Fair To Midland posted an acoustic three song set. One of the songs can be viewed it here. My apologies for posting this.

Puscifer recently debuted their new single ‘Man Overboard’ from their upcoming new album, ‘Conditions of My Parole‘, over at Spin. Come on, Maynard! Enough of this Puscifer junk!  No one likes this project. Be kind to your fans and release new Tool or A Perfect Circle albums.

Photo credit: U. Bechstein

St. Anger was an isolated incident

We may not be the best metal blog around. We’re even worse than some lame Blogspot ones, at least according to other metal sites (hint hint). But there’s one thing we do well, and that’s having sex. We’re amazing at that.

Aside from sex, we’re also quite good at putting some balls behind our interviews. Insulting our interviewees is the last thing on our minds, but we do try to ask atypical questions. When you read a DoM interview, you know it’s a DoM interview. It has the perfect mix of humor and retarded questions.

Why am I telling you all this? Well, because I just read an excerpt from an interview with Lars Ulrich, and I can’t help but think the interviewer has balls. Leave it to the Brits (it’s from a British magazine called Classic Rock) to ask the right questions.

“Classic Rock: Is it fair to say St. Anger is your worst album?
Lars: I think it’s fair to say that some people think that.

Classic Rock: Would you agree with them?
Lars: I can’t. The way I view the world, I can’t rank them from best to worst. That kind of simplicity just doesn’t exist for me. If I was 14, I could probably do it. Now, the way I see the world is nothing but greys, mainly.

Classic Rock: The drum sound on that record was abysmal.
Lars: That was on purpose. It wasn’t like we put it out and somebody went, “Whoa! Whoops!” I view St. Anger as an isolated experiment. I’m the biggest Metallica fan, you’ve got to remember that. Once again, as we’ve been known to do, once in a while these boundaries have to be fucked with. We’d already done Ride The Lightning, which I believe is a fine record. It didn’t need to be re-done.

Classic Rock: But even the good songs on St. Anger go on forever.
Lars: When we heard the record from beginning to end, I felt — and it was mostly me — that the experience was so pummeling, it became almost about hurting the listener, about challenging the listener, so we left the songs unedited. I can understand that people felt it was too long.“

The interviewer simply went for the kill. But not to insult Lars, just to ask him the questions all of us want to ask. A decade too late, but still.

Now, I do understand Lars had to avoid answering directly, he’s not just gonna admit one of his band’s studio efforts is bad. But did he really have to admit that James’ stage persona is fake and that he is insecure on the inside?

“He’s much sweeter and more vulnerable than people think he is. Most of that toughness, that he-man thing, that was just a façade for him to deal with his own insecurities.“

That will help with James’ metal cred.

The excerpt is from Blabbermouth, read a bit more here. I think you have to buy the magazine to read the whole thing. What’s a magazine, you ask? No idea, I don’t live in the 18th fucking century.

Phil Anselmo got interviewed

I’m not gonna lie, I consider Pantera one of the best metal bands of all time. I’ve watched their home videos countless times, Phil and Dimebag were my heroes.

But today’s Phil can barely string a sentence together. He bursts into laughter out of nowhere, he changes vocal pitch, I really have a hard time following him. I guess it’s the vegan lifestyle of orange juice and soya milk, eh?

Anyway, watch the interview above (if you can). He cites Kiss, Iron Maiden and Metallica as his influences and he talks about which instrument he prefers — the mic or the guitar.

Watch it go. Getcha’ pull.

Queensrÿche want you to think they’re hip

Geoff Tate, vocalist of Queensrÿche, conducted an interview recently with a magazine from the U.K.

Basically, Geoff discusses how he is glad people listen to music these days on their iPods and iPhones and that he doesn’t miss the vinyl days one bit.  He also denies they are prog metal and that rock music is dead.

“Rock is pretty much dead. If you look at the numbers, it’s definitely not the music of the times anymore. If it’s gonna keep moving, bands need to embrace new ideas. There’s a lot of elements to rock that, mentally speaking, are kinda boneheaded. Like the whole “chunk-chunk-chunk” guitar progression — the stuff you play when you’re learning the damn thing. You would hope bands would get beyond that.“

The rest of the interview can be found in the latest issue of  U.K.’s Classic Rock magazine (people still buy music magazines? Lolz).

If you want to check out their most recent snooze fest single, ‘Get Started,’ then click here.  Or you can click here for a better Queensrÿche song.