Beyond Magnetic sold twice as much as Lulu

The four unreleased Death Magnetic tracks were sold as an EP on iTunes. Guess what, they sold twice as much as Lulu.

“Metallica‘s four-song digital EP called Beyond Magnetic sold 36,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 32 on The Billboard 200 chart. The effort consists of the quartet of previously unheard tracks that the band unveiled in concert earlier in the month during its 30th-anniversary celebration. All four tunes — “Hate Train”, “Just A Bullet Away”, “Hell And Back” and “Rebel Of Babylon” — were recorded during the sessions for the band’s 2008 Death Magnetic album but left off the final track list.“

Read full article here.

Considering the songs have been available for free everywhere, including YouTube, it’s pretty cool that they sold so many copies. Take that, Lou Reed.

Gwar are pissed at Europe

Following from yesterday’s news that Gwar have cancelled their European tour due to poor ticket sales, frontman Oderus Urungus has gone on a fairly large rant about Europe, their promoters and the state of metal over there.

Maybe it’s just that European metal fans have taste? Ever thought about that Odious Uterus?

Check out a screenshot of the rants below, courtesy of Metal Hammer.

Disturbed meal

Ever wondered what David Draiman of Disturbed eats? Me neither.

Want to see an interview with him talking about his diet and exercise? Of course not.

Why am I posting that video then? To troll.

Gwar are honest about their canceled tour

Gwar recently canceled their European tour. You’d think it was because they wanted to mourn the loss of their guitarist. Nope, that wouldn’t stop them. Instead it was the poor sales.

Hey, at least they’re honest about it. Other bands would have said ‘the timing wasn’t right.’

“Several of the promoters were alarmed by the low ticket sales, and they decided to start pulling the plug on shows. It got to the point where we had lost so many shows that we simply could not afford to do the tour.“

Read full post here.

Listen, I’m no Gwar fan, but I’m very disappointed to hear bands canceling tours left and right because of poor sales. Where is the music industry going? Why is Lady Gaga (uglier than GWAR’s costumes) selling out arenas whilst metal bands have to cancel their tours?

Shit ain’t right.

In Flames have a bass player??

Never would have guessed it…

Anyway, there’s a video of his rig. Not because any of you might be interested, just to prove to you that I am not lying.