Interview: Maddox

Many of you may be wondering why a metal site would choose to interview someone like Maddox, since he’s not a musician. The photo above answers all your questions. Maddox (on the left) is punching a The Black Dahlia Murder fan. If that doesn’t give him enough credibility, I don’t know what will.

Maddox is the man behind The Best Page in The Universe (second best, in our opinion, but we’re probably biased), a site I’ve been reading for over a decade. He’s been a huge influence on my writing and my sense of humor, and apparently I got him into Swashbuckle.

This may not be your typical DoM interview, but it brought a few metalhead pirates together — my life is complete.

Make the jump and find out what metal Maddox listens to, whether or not he’ll ever consider including us in his future books, and what suggestions he has for our site’s design.

Daily Dose Of Metal: Rammstein

I usually don’t pay much attention to my dreams, but last night I had a weird one – it included Rammstein. I don’t remember much, but the image of Till is still strong in my head.

What does it mean? Am I trying to cope with some thoughts about large husky men on a subconsious level? Or is my subconcious telling me to buy tickets for the show? I hope it’s the second one, because I woke up with a boner.

Either way, a good thing came out of it, today’s Daily Dose. I picked one of my favorites from Reise, Reise, simply because I can actually understand around 90% of Dalai Lama without the need of lyrics and those awful online translators. And well, the song is fucking grooving, just tell me that “Hörst du denn den Donner nicht?” and the part that follows doesn’t make you want to jump outside of the nearest window.

Iced Earth scared me for a moment

Hey you Dungeons and Dragons dorks, good news — Iced Earth have re-recorded their well known song “Dante’s Inferno,” and they’re offering it as a free download. Even better news — you have to give them your email to hear it, which I simply won’t do, so I didn’t have to listen to it. A win-win situation if you ask me.

The song can be found here, and Metal Hammer also has a few details on the new album and their fresh new singer (who probably isn’t in the picture above, but hey, I can’t do everything).

Generation Kill treat you with a song

Rob Duke’s (Exodus) crossover side project Generation Kill have an album coming out September 16 (in Europe, 11 days later in US), and it’s called Red, White And Blood. Which I read in my head as “red, white and more red.” Should you give a shit? Well, why do you always have to turn to me, make your own mind for once.

To make it easier for you, the band has posted an mp3 of the title track for download at this location, but I’ve taken the extra effort and made it available to stream with one click of the button right here on the website, just because I care about my lazy readers <3 And since I’m that nice, I’ll also warn you and tell you the song features lyrics such as “I don’t know but I’ve been told, Eskimo pussy’s mighty cold” AND The Star-Spangled Banner, but does it work?

Listen to the song below, see the tracklist and the album cover after the jump.

Tour story, bro — Every Time I Die writing a book

Aaaah, the wonders of the internet. The most advanced technology in communication the world has seen, spent on countless hours of arguing about which operating system is better and which Metallica album is the worst.

Where was I? Oh yeah. If you follow Keith Buckley and Every Time I Die camp on Twitter, you might remember their hashtag meme #tourstories, which they’ve used to crowd source the most interesting fan submitted tour moments (dropping some new media terminology up in this bitch yo), and according to band’s recent tweet, they are turning it into a book.

remember #tourstories? its now becoming a book. send your story to @_tourstories to be a part of the next true great american masterpiece

The band promised to review everything submitted, and the most interesting stories might get a full page interview along with the 140 character tweet.

There you have it, if you ever wanted to be a part of an internet meme, in an old school book format (paper and shit), this is the perfect opportunity to contribute. Photos of the tweets can be found after the jump.