Five Finger Death Punch guitarist is a tough guy

It’s one of those lazy Saturdays where there’s fuck all to do, so here I am posting once again on Dose of Metal. That means I’ve already masturbated four times today and I’ve run out of things to do. Lucky you, you get to read another amazing post from me.

In the exciting world of Metal today, is an interview with the guitarist of Five Finger Death Punch, Zoltan, courtesy of Bloody-Disgusting.com. I don’t really know who the guitarist is, nor do I care, but a segment of the chat can be found below.

“we get a lot of flak from people who say, “This is bro metal,” or “This is tough-guy music.” And you know what?! Yeah! It’s like, fuck you! I don’t play music for the pussies. It IS tough-guy music!”

Source: Blabbermouth

Awesome, thanks for clearing that up Zoltan, but that doesn’t really quite justify why your music is so shit. By the way, what was Power Rangers like and was the pink ranger as hot as she seemed on telly?

Jane’s new irresistible video

…is not actually a video, it’s a “lyric video.” I guess the band has figured out that making music videos simply doesn’t impress anyone anymore, so for their new song, Irresistible Force, they just hired someone to do a better job than the usual YouTube clip done in iMovie or iFilm or Windows Movie Maker with slapped subtitles in Comic Sans or whatever. Which is fine by me, because a) If I play music over YouTube, I never usually look at the clip, so b) this gives me the incentive to pay more attention to the song itself.

You’ve probably noticed a lot of bands have started doing this recently, I guess because of the YouTube generation and the shortened attention spams of people on internet generally. Kinda funny how things change, and kinda sad I remember the “good times.” Getting old.

Update: So I watched the video again, and noticed that in the end it says an official “real” video will be coming soon. Getting dumb.

Friday Top 26: Heavy Metal Alphabet

We’ve done so many Top 10’s already, but this time we’ve decided to top it all with a Top 26. 26? There was something with 26, right? You got it! The Latin alphabet, that is used in most countries on this planet, has 26 letters.

So what are we going to do with these 26 letters? Well, every band has a bandname, and every bandname consists of letters. Can you follow me so far? We’re going to list the best band for each letter of the Latin alphabet (including their best song and album).

Ain’t that cool, now? It sure is. Make the jump for 26 letters and 26 ear-shattering Metal bands!

A fear of The Darkness

I think they should call it Darknessphobia. Or how about people with good taste syndrome? In advance I’d also like to apologize to anyone that thought this post would be about Iron Maiden, you must be hugely disappointed.

Instead, I’m talking, of course, about that lame British Rock band, The Darkness, that gained much success at the start of the century for playing a ‘Pop’d’ up, simplistic by-numbers rendition of what vastly superior bands had been doing twenty-thirty plus years earlier.

For those that didn’t know (lucky you), the band reformed earlier this year, playing the main stage at the UK’s Download festival. Speaking with Total Guitar magazine, frontman Justin has announced that their comeback album is nearly finished. Oh yay…

Justin also reveals some of what he likes to get up to in his spare time.

“Do you cup the sack while administering said blowjob? Do you pop a finger up the arse? We have to decide how the happy ending goes.”

Wait, what? What’s that got to do with the new album?

[source: Blabbermouth]

One more time: Up the Irons!

I was just thinking of a headline for this particular news post about Iron Maiden, and ‘one more time’ sprung into my mind. And then I had the above song by Daft Punk stuck in my head. The mind works in mysterious ways.

So let’s get on topic: We’re in for, at least, one more Iron Maiden album! That’s right, The Last Sucker Final Frontier was not Maiden’s last album, according to Bruce Dickinson:

“The singer (…) believes Maiden will make “at least one more album” to follow last year’s chart-topping 15th record The Final Frontier.”

That’s what he said to the Daily Star, and he added:

“Things have been going a bit more prog-rock on our recent albums and the fans seem to love that.”

You know, I’m actually a bit split on that now. I’m happy that Iron Maiden put their retirement on hold (for, what seems like, the 1.000th time), but I was not a big fan of The Final Frontier, nor A Matter Of Life And Death. I don’t dislike Matter… but I do dislike Frontier. Let’s put it some other way, because you simply can’t dislike any Iron Maiden album: I don’t care for The Final Frontier.

So I would have liked the band to go back to their Brave New World sound but, I guess, we’re in for another snoozefest. Oh well, yay either way.