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Lady Gaga “gets” metal

When it comes to Lady Gaga, we’re divided over here at Dose of Metal camp. Some of us don’t like her, while some of us don’t like her and want to see her mouth sewn shut. I’m in the second group. If you don’t recall, lately she’s been blabbing about Iron Maiden whenever she gets the chance, and I don’t mind that. But today, I stumbled upon an article on Metal Hammer’s website, where the editor praises her for “getting” metal. She goes on about being in a box at their concert, and suddenly deciding to think outside of the box (excuse the lame pun) and getting into the crowd. To quote:

“We were dancing and singing and everyone was just so into it,” Gaga continues. “And it was one of the first times I’ve been able to just be at a rock concert in a long time. People did recognize me, but it was so kind and warm and awesome. I mean, Iron Maiden is all about, ‘We don’t care who our fans are. We love everybody.’ ”

“And not only that, but when we got into the crowd, there was no pretension. I’m a pop singer — I didn’t know what it would be like in a crowd of a Maiden fans; everybody was hugging me, high-fiving, fistpumps in the air… ‘Oh, it’s so cool you’re at Maiden.’ Jumping and dancing…I mean, it was like absolute no judgment, no prejudice, freedom and love for music. It doesn’t matter who you are; you don’t need to know anything about music to love it. And it was just so… It was just awesome… Maiden changed my life.”

Okay… Why was this so shocking to her? What did she expect, that people would beat her to death? If it came down to that, metalheads would long be extinct because of all the (verbal) fighting that goes inside those circles (well, mostly verbal). Except that, if you are actually normal, you leave the basement virgin type arguments at home, on this site, or wherever the hell you spend your time when you’re not masturbating, while you listen to whatever the hell you want to listen to. In my 25 years of life, I’ve yet to find a metalhead that didn’t enjoy at least some other music besides it. If you happen to know somebody that actually fits that description, feel free to call them a tool. And if you’re wondering “OMG has Dose of Metal gone soft?” the answer is – obviously yes, because I just wrote an article about Lady Gaga. And I’m still more metal than you. Fuck off.

The moral of this story: I have no clue. I just dislike her music, and find her theatrics incredibly annoying. But of course if we were at a show together, I’d treat her the same way I treat every other human being, metalhead or not: if they’re female, think about what their boobs look like, if they’re male, wonder if their dick is bigger than mine. Lady Gaga’s in the second group.

Haunted Flames

*sigh* Lame title on my part, but it’s been reported that a new supergroup consisting of members of Swedish giants In Flames and The Haunted has formed, and the band will be performing at the new Sonic Rock Circus festival, set to take place on September 30 at Klubben in Stockholm, Sweden.

The band are called The Resisitance and feature Marco Aro on vocals (ex The Haunted), Jesper Strömblad and Glenn Ljungström on guitars (ex In Flames), Alex Losbäck Holstad on bass, and Chris Barkensjö on drums.

Normally I would make some sort of joke about how mediocre In Flames and The Haunted are right now, but this band might actually turn out to be pretty good. Plus Marc Aro was a part of The Haunted way before their mediocre period.

More information as well as pictures of the band and their logo can be found at Blabbermouth.

BlackGates release final song of 3-song demo

If you don’t know BlackGates by now, you’ve surely missed out. We’ve interviewed two of the four bandmembers — Jeremy Von Epp and Dan Nelson — and now the band released the final song, called ‘Vacant,’ of their 3-song demo on their Reverbnation page.

Head over there right now or use the player below to listen to all 3 songs.

And now, make the jump for some pictures of the studio, the band recorded their demo at.

WAR! New Sabaton video

What can you expect from a music video of a band that, pretty much, solely sings about war? Well, I won’t answer that question. Just watch the video above.

If you’re wondering why the title of the video says “2010,” don’t worry. It didn’t take us half a year to finally write about it. The song, ‘Screaming Eagles,’ is taken from Sabaton’s 2010 album Coat Of Arms and the video was shot in 2010. You see, it didn’t take us half a year to write about it. It just took them half a year to release it.

It is forgiven as soon as you hit the play button though, because the video — and especially the song — kick massive amounts of ass.

Shining release first music video

I certainly fell in love with Shining’s music over the past couple of months and I can’t wait for the forthcoming 7th album VII: Född Förlorare.

You can watch Shining’s first ever music video, for the song ‘Förtvivlan, Min Arvedel,’ above or the uncensored version of the video after the jump. Be warned, it included scenes of self-mutilation and drug usage.

Shining’s Niklas Kvarforth has the following to say about the video:

“We know we are going to get heavily criticised for some of the scenes but it’s nothing more than you will see as soon as you switch on a television or watch a movie, or walk down a city street come to that. But we’re Shining and it’s always open season on Shining when it comes to people who have neither understood, nor taken the time to try and understand, where the band is coming from”

Read the full press-release here.

And now, if you’re not a wuss, watch the uncensored music video of ‘Förtvivlan, Min Arvedel’ after the jump.