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God Dethroned unveil album artwork and tracklist
Dutch Blackened Death Metal legends God Dethroned recently unveiled the album artwork and tracklisting for their upcoming album ‘Under the Sign of the Iron Mask’.
Artwork and tracklist after the jump.
In other news, the Netherlands shouldn’t be a country. Amsterdam on the other hand should be.
Redneck's Lamb of God
The name Lamb Of God sounds like a punchline to a Judd Appatow joke about a Christian Easter meal. Just imagine, Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd are in a cafe, talking about chicks like the awkward but lovable geeks they are, and one of them makes an analogy to sex by using “and I ate her lamb of god like it was Easter in Vatican,” making a clever joke all while being borderline politically incorrect. They laugh, the audience laughs, they make a zillion dollars and I die a little inside.
Anyway, I’m not gonna bore you with my clever script ideas. Lamb Of God‘s guitarist means business, and he’s here to tell us how he stole came up with the riff for their non-hit single, “Redneck.” Read it here, yo.
Black Label Video
You know, Kirk Hammett gets a lot of shit for his overuse of the wah pedal, but nobody really says anything about Zakk Wylde’s. Why is that? Is it because Kirk actually showers?
Anyway, apparently Zakk and his band, Johnnie Walker Black Label Society just shot a video.
“Black Label Society recently shot a video for the song “Overlord”with directors Eric Zimmerman (who?) and Nik Jamgocyan (who?) of Master Cylinder (oh right, now I know </sarcasm>). The track comes off the band’s new album, “Order Of The Black.”
Not only do I not know who the directors are, but I can’t even spell their names properly without insulting some country or culture from God-knows-where. This isn’t really news. Why am I posting it, then? No fucking clue… Why are you reading it, smarty pants? I know you are, but what am I? Fuck off…
Serj has fans?
There’s one thing you need to know about Serj Tankian fans. They don’t really exist. So imagine my surprise when I read that he has answered fan-submitted questions.
That’s like being 25 and hearing Santa is waiting for your letter. I mean, at a certain age you just stop believing in this stuff. Of course, this begs the question “Is your dad dressing up as a Serj fan and submitting questions?” — Good point. I’ll get back to you on that. In the meantime, check out this hilarious pretend game Serj played, after the jump.
When asked why every Armenian surname ends with “-ian,” Serj had no comment.
Slash should write for us…
When it comes to making fun of Guns N’ Roses and Poison, we thought we were actually good. Guess what? Slash is better.
Few excerpts from the interview Classic Rock Revisited conducted with our new hero:
Classic Rock Revisited: [One of the] singers I would have loved to have seen on your solo album . . . is Axl Rose.
Slash: You know, I will be honest with you, even at the sake of it going public, when I was in the middle of this process there were a lot of singers names who flew through my mind during the process. You are living in Singer Land so all you are thinking about is singers. The thought of him crossed my mind at one point. I thought, “Axl could sing the shit out of any of these songs.” I, obviously, never made the phone call because I wanted to put the record out in this millennium.
Classic Rock Revisited: Legend holds that you tried out for Poison but didn’t make the cut. Is that true?
Slash: Yeah, I did. I was living in L.A. and I had just gotten done working in a band with Axl, actually, called Hollywood Rose. Steven Adler was in that band as well. I just quit. I told Axl I couldn’t handle it anymore and I walked. That was right after the first time Axl and I ever worked together. Matt, the original guitar player for Poison, who was actually a pretty cool guy, had gotten his wife pregnant or they were getting married or something like that. He was moving back to Pennsylvania. He goes, “You should try out for Poison.” I hated Poison but in those days you did whatever you had to do to keep moving. Being very ambitious, as I was, I went and auditioned for Poison. I ended up being one of two guitar players left that they were going to pick from. I remember kicking the shit out of the songs they had. There was no denying that I could play them but there was an issue about makeup and stuff. Bobby Dall asked me what kind of shoes I was going to wear. I was like, “What?” It was kind of obvious that this was going to go nowhere. As I was walking out of the audition, C.C. Deville was walking in. He had on pancake makeup and a ton of hairspray. I actually remember thinking right then, “That should be the guy.” The next day I got a call from Bobby and he said, “You know, you are great and all but I think we are going to pass on you and go with this other guy.” It was C.C. and it really did make all the sense in the world. I was in a couple of bands after that and then we started Guns N’ Roses.
Read the entire interview here.
