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Yesterday’s headlines
I’ve been a bit absent from this site for the last couple of weeks because I’m a winner, and I’m #winning, and my goddesses kept me busy. But now I’m back, and because there’s no news for today, I’ll turn back the hands of time (#winning) and give you Monday’s headlines a day too late.
Queens Of The Stone Age (pictured above) are performing on Conan next month. This would be interesting news if the year was 1999.
Texas is a great state. They gave us Pantera. But then they also gave us Hellyeah. Anyway, the city of Austin decided that “Motörhead Day” will be celebrated on March 8th. Let’s be honest, Lemmy does look like he belongs in Texas, so it’s a good match.
In Flames have a new guitarist. I didn’t even know they lost their previous guitarist. Wait, who are In Flames again?
Marilyn Manson walked on a runway at a fashion show, because when you say “Marilyn Manson” you immediately think “model, fashion, runway, hot.” How could this happen? Well, it was in Japan, so go figure.
Mirror, mirror on the wall…
Who’s the loudest of them all? Is it AC/DC? No, it’s not AC/DC. In fact, Justin Bieber is much louder than AC/DC.
What the fuck am I talking about? Loudness war. So yeah, take that fist you had pointed at me back. There’s a geeky event called Dynamic Range Day, and the guys behind it have took some of the most memorable (and/or simply loudest) albums, and made a little graph that shows how albums got progressively louder over the course of the past few decades (and I’d say musically worse, but who’s asking for my opinion).
Wondering who’s the first on the list? Well, click that “continue reading” button then. But trust me, you know.
Slayer return to the stage
Despite every obstacle being thrown in Slayer‘s direction recently (well, old age mostly I’d guess), with Araya being admitted to hospital and Hanneman undergoing surgery, the band finally returned to the stage last night (Friday 4th).
Tom is back pelting those vocals out and smashing the Bass, but Gary Holt of Exodus is still filling in for Jeff, who will be back as soon as he’s fully recovered. Video footage of their live performance at Australia’s Soundwave festival can be found after the jump.
Dusty Peterson at ECCC
Our dear friend Dusty Peterson was the first artist to be interviewed by Dose of Metal, back in September of last year, just a couple of weeks after we started kicking everyone’s ass. Dusty also helped us in late January, when he helped us write two Friday Top 10’s, one about our best news posts and one about our best articles of 2010.
The Emerald City Comicon, in Seattle, WA, started today and Dusty Peterson will be there so go to his table, where he is showcasing his artworks and tell him DoseOfMetal.com told you to say hi.
And while you’re at it, visit his homepage and check out his bad ass art. And then come back and read more Dose of Metal articles. And then go to Facebook and post about how awesome we and our articles are. And so on. You know the deal.
Ride the Master of Justice
Say what you will about 90s Metallica and especially early 2000s Metallica, but you have to admit 80s Metallica kicked ass. And I don’t think anyone can deny the impact “Master of Puppets” had on rock music in general, not just metal, so regardless of your feelings for the band nowadays, you have to respect who they were a few decades ago.
I guess whenever I hear an influential album, I always ask myself… “Did these guys know they were making history when they were recording it, or were they just doing their job without thinking too much of the future?”
Well, someone sort of asked the same question to Flemming Rasmussen, the record producer behind Metallica‘s best albums.
Phoenix New Times: “Master of Puppets” is widely regarded as one of the best heavy metal albums of all time. Did you know you were onto something special when you were working on it 25 years ago?
Flemming Rasmussen: Oh, yes. Right from the demos, we pretty much knew this was gonna be a killer album. I think we all felt that this was gonna be the best Metallica album yet, as we had a bunch of really strong songs. Even the instrumentals were awesome.
PNT: You produced three consecutive Metallica albums — “Ride The Lightning”, “Puppets” and “Justice” — but they have three distinctly different sounds. Was that a conscious decision by you and the band?
Flemming: Yes. The difference between “Ride” and “Master” is evolution, as “Master” is a perfection of the sound we started to evolve on “Ride”. And in my opinion, we did really master it on “Master”. That album sounds so good. When I got onto the “Justice” album, they were a month into the session, and it was a new studio, etc., so we decided on a more up-front and dry sound. As for the mix, they had already hired someone else to do this, so I had no say in that. But it’s still a classic metal album, and the sound has inspired a whole new generation of metal bands.
Read full interview here.
Must be empowering being able to say “I was there!” when talking about the recording of such classic albums. Can you imagine the shame of the people behind “St. Anger” though?
Source: Blabbermouth
