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Can you guess what the new Morbid Angel album is like?
Guess which of the following is true: When asked about the new Morbid Angel album Illud Divinum Insanus, David Vincent called it:
a) heaviest one they ever made
b) best one they ever made
c) masterpiece
And the correct answer is: c) masterpiece. Wow, the guy is really trying to sell it. Like, more than the usual (answers a and b). Can we blame him, though? How many times have we called this site and ourselves awesome and amazing? Too many times to count. But in our case, it’s 110% true. In his case, it’s just an excuse for us to make an awesome article out of it. Amazing.
7 inches of 3 Inches of Blood
3 Inches of Blood, have announced the release date for their upcoming 7″ EP, Anthems For The Victorious, as May 12th. The limited edition orange vinyl will feature two brand new tracks.
7″? Three inches of blood? Lulz insert period joke here.
More information can be found over at ThePRP.
Metallica have 700 new riffs
Lars Ulrich revealed in a recent Metal Hammer interview that Metallica have over 700 new riffs to choose from for their new album.
“James told me in Australia that he had over 700 riffs. That was slightly overwhelming. When I spoke to him yesterday, he told me that he’d been playing guitar again in the last couple of weeks. And listen, when James tunes his guitar, he comes up with three to five usable guitar riffs. It’s kind of frightening. James is not allowed to play guitar without being recorded. Literally!“
Read full article here.
I’m not gonna lie, I actually believe that. I don’t think anyone (who knows anything about guitar playing) can disagree with the fact that James is a brilliant guitar player, especially in terms of writing. The question is, what inspires him these days? Is it actual metal, or softer stuff? I think Lars has an answer for that as well…
“The side of Metallica that we are having a lot of fun with right now is the harder, faster, more manic, more out-of-control stuff than, say, the ‘Load’–‘Reload’ British blues stuff. Playing a lot of the full-on metal stuff like ‘Dyers Eve’ and ‘The Shortest Straw’. We played ‘The Call Of Ktulu’ in Australia. Bringing out ‘Trapped Under Ice’ again… It’s just been cool to feel comfortable about embracing that side of Metallica.“
That’s not just ‘a side’ of Metallica though. That IS Metallica, at least as far as most people are concerned. It’s the Load/Reload era that was ‘another side’ of the band. I don’t know too many people who fell in love with this band because of songs like ‘Prince Charming.’
But I’m sure everyone is happy to hear that they’re sticking to the harder stuff still.
Make the jump for a video of two Canadian synchronized swimmers swimming to a ‘Enter Sandman’ and ‘Master Of Puppets.’
Slipknot will continue ‘with or without Corey’
I have absolutely no idea whether this is new news, old news, footage from the future, or if I’m just drunk, but I’ve stumbled across an interview with Joey Jordison in regards to Slipknot‘s future, and he sounds either in a rush, or a little bit pissed…
Joey claims that the band is ready to continue as a band, both touring and with new music, with or without frontman Corey Taylor. Hopefully without… Maybe then we can get more music like this, and less like this.
Arch Enemy is (not) a female fronted band
Which confirms my thoughts that Angela Gossow is in fact a guy. Just kidding lolz, but she did have a say on the whole thing, and here it is:
“What does it mean? That the singer has tits! [Laughs] It doesn’t say anything about the music, or the quality of the musicianship, and that’s something that we’ve always tried to sail around and avoid. It’s a bad thing for us, and other bands go well with it and it’s okay if they’re comfortable with it, but we’re not a ‘female-fronted’ band. We’re an extreme metal band, and that’s all I want us to be remembered as.”
Okay, I agree to the message she’s trying to put out, dumb labels are dumb, but let’s get this straight, if you’re a chick fronting a band, you’re by basic logic a “female fronted band.” You might be extreme, you might be great, you might be shit, but unless you whip out your dick anytime soon, Angela, your band is female fronted.
