Tag Archives: Metallica

The Big Four Guitar World cover is here

The Big Four are featured in a Guitar World issue and we got the cover exclusively! If by ‘exclusively’ you mean ‘stolen from Blabbermouth.’ The cover is after the jump, and by the looks of it, the magazine itself features a poster of Dave and Jaymz fist-bumping each other. Sounds awesome, too bad this isn’t 1985.

Anyway, the site Glenrock Patch conducted an interview with Scott Ian, Tom Araya and David Ellefson about The Big Four and you guessed it, same type of questions, same type of answers. Read the predictable article here.

If you’re going to the NY Big Four show, we’re hosting a party on Skype for you guys, we can all like, videochat and drink beer together!!! [/lies]

Friday Top 10: Live videos I enjoy

It’s a very slow Friday here at the Dose of Metal office, probably because we don’t have one.

Anyway, since we don’t have a great Top 10 for today, instead of just not posting one, I’ve decided to do a half-assed one. Well, everything on this site is half-assed, so this would be more of a ‘quarter-assed’ article.

So this is a list of ten live videos I enjoy. If you can’t cope with so much mediocrity, please understand that it’s not our fault our moms drank vodka during our pregnancies.

We also used that photo of a crowd that a reader sent to us, just to show how racially diverse we are, yo.

Rent Metallica for your birthday or Bar Mitzvah

As we told you before, Metallica had to play yet another corporate gig. Why wouldn’t they, Lars had two dollar signs surgically attached to his eyeballs back in 1990.

The video above is from that gig. It’s actually pretty massive, looks like a real concert.

Watch that nerd film the whole thing on an iPad. Doesn’t surprise me, the gig is for a website. I assume they all went for a beer-and-Android-kernel-exchange after the concert.

Great! Another Metallica book

I get the point of an autobiography. Even if it has a ghost writer, it may still make for a pretty interesting read. Musicians have interesting lives — the tours, the drinking, the drugs, the STDs. Big musicians live a life of luxury and excess and have quite a few stories to tell.

What I don’t get is when others write biographies. Great, some dude knows a few things, read a few interviews and has an opinion. The nerve of that person to write all that crap. Wait, I actually do that too. At least I blog, though. Get with the times, lulz, who reads books anymore?

Anyway, such seems to be the case with yet another Metallica book: Enter Night (by Mick Wall)

This guy says Dave being kicked out made the band more focused, implies that Cliff wouldn’t have liked Metallica‘s replacing him so fast and says a bunch of stuff about Jason.

You can read the full interview with the author here.

How on Earth can someone know what a dead person would have wanted? And why would Cliff not want Metallica to keep going, or be ‘upset’ about being replaced? He seemed like a pretty cool guy, who wants to die and ruin careers and lives in doing so? If I died, I truly want everyone who knew me to move on as quickly as possible and not let my death get in the way of their lives. I didn’t know Cliff, but I honestly doubt he would have a problem with Metallica ‘soldiering on’ and becoming so big. And finding a replacement fast was a instrumental to that success, cause they were pretty big around those times.

But that’s just my opinion, at least I don’t write a book about it. I never understood how people can just cash in on famous people by writing unauthorized books about them. Meanwhile I’m registered as a sex offender for stalking Miley Cyrus a few years ago.

Fair? I think not.

Weak Recap: Solo style

Hey, it’s another Sunday, and you know what that means, time for your favorite weekly interview. The one we do with each other.

Except, you’re not getting one.

Apparently, other people at Dose of Metal obviously have this thing called “life” and they’re too busy with their “girlfriends.” You know where that leaves me? Same place I was last week — alone in the room, wishing I had enough money to buy myself a plastic one.

I’m just kidding, blow up dolls are for pussies, real men pleasure themselves. And by that, I don’t mean I can reach my penis with my mouth. I just make the best use of my hands. Speaking of my hands and wonderful results, make the jump to read my solo recap.