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Bret is still not healthy

Say what you will about Bret, his wig or his music, but you can’t deny that he’s been pretty optimistic considering his health problems. He’s had some more, by the way:

“While recovering from heart surgery, Bret Michaels suffered a massive drop in blood pressure, but his doctor found the cause and the singer is doing better again. “

Read full article here.

So after struggling with diabetes his whole life, he’s had a mini-stroke, went into a coma and had heart surgery and he’s still having problems. Listen, I’m not gonna crack any jokes, considering how much shit he’s been through, he seems pretty cool about. I once got an awful cold that kept me in bed for 3 days and I whined like crazy…

Get well soon, Bret. We want to keep making fun of you without feeling guilty about it.

Chris Barnes on Six Feet Under’s future

Does Six Feet Under have a future? I was thinking about that yesterday, after Terry Butler and Greg Gall announced their departure from the band. Today, Chris Barnes released a message to all Six Feet Under fans via their homepage.

“To the loyal fans of Six Feet Under–

Our long time friends and bandmates, Terry Butler and Greg Gall , have decided to move on and depart from SFU. Steve Swanson and myself are grateful for all the fun times we’ve shared together through the years, and wish them the best of luck in their musical endeavors.

just to fill you all in, Steve and myself are very excited about the future of the SFU, and i have been working hard on writing the new SFU material for the past 4 months with a new writing partner.

i will make this guarantee and promise to all the fans of Six Feet Under; the new line up will be a DEATH METAL force to be dealt with, with the long awaited addition of a brutal as fuck drummer and riffs that will rip your face off, vocals ala 1993-1995…

thank you all for your continued support and devotion, see you soon!”

Sounds good to me. I’ll be blasting ‘Haunted’ all day today.

6 Feet Under – 2 = 4 Feet Under?

Terry Butler and Greg Gall, bassist and drummer of Six Feet Under (more like formerly of Six Feet Under), quit the band to focus on other bands. Terry Butler now officially joins Obituary on bass. That only leaves Chris Barnes and Steve Swanson in the band.

Butler released the following statement to Blabbermouth;

“I would just like to put it out there that Greg Gall and I have parted ways with Six Feet Under.
As many of you know, I have been helping Obituary out on bass over the past year and now will be officially joining them as a permanent band member.
Being in Six Feet Under for 16 years, I have had the pleasure of meeting a lot of our dedicated fans and have made many friends along the way. I hope to see you out there!
I wish nothing but the best for Chris Barnes and Steve Swanson in their future with Six Feet Under.”

Now there’s only one question unanswered. If 2 members of Six Feet Under leave the band, does that equal “6 Feet Under – 2 = 4 Feet Under” or “6 Feet Under – 2 band members (= 1,5 Feet Under each) = 3 Feet Under,” indicating that each member equals 1,5 Feet Under to add up to the original 6 Feet Under?

Amon Amarth release first single

Yesterday, I posted about Amon Amarth premiering the first song of their upcoming album ‘Surtur Rising’ on Full Metal Jackie’s show. If you’re like me, you listened to the shitty webrip, anxiously waiting for a better version.

Wait no more because you can now listen to ‘War of the Gods’ on SurturRising.com in great quality. Also, you can pre-order the album in multiple different versions, i.e. with a bonus live DVD, that was recorded in Bochum, Germany in 2008 over the course of 4 days and includes all four first albums played in its entirety. I actually wanted to go to those concerts but I didn’t. I could cry endlessly because I didn’t. Oh, how stupid am I for missing that?

Anyhow, go to the site and listen to the song now or make the jump for a high quality YouTube video with the audio.

Testament are studio bound

Legendary Bay Area Thrashers, Testament are heading for the studio in March to record the follow-up to The Formation Of Damnation.

I could spend hours typing up all the details, or you could stop being lazy and just watch the video after the jump. Or you could do what I’m doing, and that’s watching a beautiful romantic comedy called Snow White Bangs 7 Dwarfs. It has a fantastic script and wasn’t filmed on a crappy camcorder like the video below.