Tag Archives: Megadeth

Anthrax haven't forgotten about S.O.D.

Who remembers the Stormtroopers of Death? S.O.D. were one of the most influential Crossover Thrash bands of the mid-80’s. The band consisted of Scott Ian and Charlie Benante of Anthrax, Dan Lilker of Nuclear Assault and formerly of Anthrax, too and some completely untalented, racist fat guy called Billy Milano.

Recently Ian and Benante proved that they haven’t forgotten about S.O.D. when they performered the band’s classic ‘Milk’ during soundcheck, at their current tour with Slayer and Megadeth, with Megadeth’s Shawn Drover and Anthrax bassist Frankie Bello.

Video after the jump.

What are clinics?

Musical clinics, how do they work? I’ve just read an article about Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover doing drum clinics in November (read the article here) and I realized that I don’t even know what the hell a drum clinic is.

A quick Google search gave me exactly 3 results but maybe I’m just too stupid to properly use Google. Google ain’t rocket science though so “What is a drum clinic” should work, shouldn’t it? Oh well. One of these results was pretty helpful though. Some guy on a forum had the following explanation:

“Firstly if you’ve heard of Drumfest or Drummer live then a clinic is a condensed single drummer version of that. Usually around a couple of hours long, its an opportunity to see high profile or just great players and tap into their experience. Content varies but includes solos, play alongs, occasionally a live band, questions and answers, interaction etc etc. ”

Source: Cambs Drumming

Sounds, well, boring. Who wants to see a drummer solo for a couple of hours? If you want to see this particular drummer in action, why not go to the band’s concerts? Maybe I just don’t get it because I’m not a musician myself though.

So apparently guitar clinics are pretty much the same as drum clinics but guitars are more interesting than drums. So drummers are fucked. Sorry Shawn.

Dave Mustaine is megaunfunny

As we mentioned earlier, Megadeth released a new song especially for the new Guitar Hero game.

But now, watch an interview of Dave Mustaine talking about it and trying hard to be funny, after the jump.

Hey Dave, why are you here?
I was hitchhiking and I ran out of thumb!

OMGFUNNYLOLZLMAO!!111111111111111

BulletDeth for myTallica Trivium

The Virginian-Pilot recently conducted an interview with David Ellefson of Megadeth.  When asked about the new generation of bands, Ellefson commented that he thinks Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium are the Megadeth and Metallica of today (which, BTW, in case you hadn’t realised, is the reason for my stupid title).

Normally I’d try to say something funny at this point (and fail), but luckily Ellefson has already done it for me. No need for me to make jokes, just read that again. Trivium? Bullet for my Valentine? Metallica? LOL.

Check out more information on the interview here.

Dave Mustaine is humble

Here’s something I never thought I’d read (let alone write myself): In a recent interview, Dave Mustaine claimed Slayer has the best show and Megadeth just tries to keep up.

What the…? Is this really Dave? Cause usually he’d be like “Yeah, we’re amazing and we pretty much gave birth to metal, the others are just trying to keep up with us, but failing” and then use Metallica’s name to promote his shit and then just deny everything saying he loves everyone, and so on and so forth…

But nowadays Dave is a changed man. Or at least tries to be considering they all want an American Big Four tour… Oh well.

Full interview available here.