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AC/DC exhibition to take place in Scotland

According to Blabbermouth and TheCourier.co.uk, an exhibition featuring rare AC/DC memorabilia will take place in Kirriemuir, Scotland on July 9th.

I’ve got to be honest, I have no fucking idea where Kirriemuir is, let alone how to pronounce it, but it happens to be the original hometown of the legendary late Bon Scott, before he moved to Australia when he was six. The exhibition is taking place on what would have been the late singer’s 65th birthday.

The exhibition will take place at the Gateway to the Glens Museum, so make sure you make your way there come July the 9th, if you fancy seeing some rare AC/DC memorabilia including one of Bon Scott‘s jackets which has never been publicly shown before.

Kiss make the Guinness Book

Nope sorry, we’re not talking about the beer. Even though, I’d rather have a cold Guinness right now, than write about Kiss. But what can you do when you’ve sworn an oath of metal?

So Kiss made the Guinness Book of World Records. How so? Was it about the longest tongue? Most greedy human beings in the history of mankind? No no, I’m just kidding. Please don’t sue me, Mr. Simmons.

They set a world record for “Most Nationalities In An Online Chat.” No shit. They have records for that. How useful. Apparently some website hosted a chat called “KISS Live & Global” representing 92 nationalities from around the world.

Nice. Most useless trivia ever posted on this site.

James Hetfield in the Hall of Fame

Just yesterday none other than Metallica’s James Hetfield was inducted into the Downey High School Hall of Fame.

Wait, High School Hall of Fame? What? Since when do high schools have Hall of Fames? Where was I when that happened and why did nobody ask me about my opinion?

This is not news. Next.

S&BLS: Zakk not so wild anymore

We all know Zakk Wylde. A beer-drinking, motorbike-riding, epic-beard-having, bad-ass motherfucker. Wylde isn’t just his name (his real name is Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt, by the way), he is wild. Or rather, was.

He had to stop drinking, for understandable reasons, a while ago and now he’s going really soft. How? Well, just read the following statement of Zakk about Black Label Society’s upcoming live DVD:

“[We’ll] get a pedal steel player, some background singers, a string quartet…Just go the whole nine yards on this instead of just the full-blown, blow-it-out band. We have two (DVDs) out there with the full-blown band, heavy insanity. This’ll just be something different.”

Full interview here.

I might be the only one but I really enjoyed Metallica’s S&M, and I overall just like metal mixed with piano and/or strings, so I’m actually looking forward to this. Let’s just call it S&BLS for now.

Opeth reveal Heritage

I still remember the first time I ever heard Opeth, it was like sex for the first time. Never before had I heard anything like it, the band literally blew my mind (and I blew my load).

So with that in mind, it is with great excitement that I learn that the band have revealed many interesting details regarding their forthcoming album, Heritage.

“It will be our 10th album/observation,” says frontman Mikael Akerfeldt. “I dig it; we all do. In fact, it feels like I’ve been building up to write for and participate on an album like this since I was 19.”

“It’s quite intense at times in some ‘old’ murky way, and quite beautiful and stark at times, if I may say so myself,” he continues. “It’s obvious I’m going to say nice things about it since I wrote basically the whole piece, but I guess it will raise a few eyebrows and it certainly is an acquired taste.”

“I think you’ll need a slightly deeper understanding of our music as a whole to be able to appreciate this record. I’ve realized my influences for this album are so diverse that I can’t really say what it sounds like. If I can compare it to any other band, it would have to be Opeth, but it’s different from the stuff we’ve done before. I’ve listened a lot to Alice Cooper for the last year, yet I can’t say it sounds like ‘No More Mr. Nice Guy.’ I hope you’ll like it once you hear it.”

Source: Metal Hammer

Now if that doesn’t excite you, you’ve been watching too much porn son!

Opeth have also announced that the first single from the album is to be called ‘The Devil’s Orchard’. Standard and special edition albums, a box set and a double LP pressing are in the works for the album’s September 19th release. Get the tracklisting after the jump!