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Today’s Dose of Metal: Metallica with Dave

Since Dave wants a band with James and Lars so badly, thought I’d show you guys this clip from 1983.

Yes, that is Metallica with Mr. Mustaine performing ‘The Mechanix,’ the original version of ‘The Four Horsemen’ before Dave was kicked out. He would, of course, eventually release it as Megadeth with the original title.

By the way, make sure you watch it in full HD. <insert sarcastic emoticon here>

Dave Mustaine wants to form another Metallica

It’s been my a dream of mine to see Dave join Metallica on stage, and I kinda lived that dream when I attended the Big Four Sofia show and they all played ‘Am I Evil’ together for the first time. Dave seems to want to take that a notch further:

“I’ve talked to Lars and James about me and David [Ellefson] doing a supergroup record with Lars and James. Well, James never said ‘no,’ but it’s still kind of out there in the air. I’m gonna keep hammering on him. It’s on my bucket list.“

Really? That sounds to me like Metallica all over again. Now, a few thoughts on the matter:

1. Supergroups never work properly. The chemistry of the musicians is way more important than the individual talent or fame, so putting the best musicians in a room together will not guarantee success. The whole concept is flawed to begin with. The only thing separating this would-be supergroup from others is the fact that they did play together before, but it’s still a shot in the dark.

2. There’s a reason this didn’t work the first time. Three big egos clashing. They have quite the history, would they really be compatible now, with all the extra baggage?

3. Wouldn’t it be a bit hypocritical if James would start a side project after forcing Jason not to make one himself?

Don’t get me wrong, I’d pay good money to see this ‘group’ live, but something about the whole process seems like it will just fail, mostly on a personal level, but probably on a professional one as well. I’ll be the first to listen to their songs if they do pull it together though.

Listen to the full interview here.

Source: 97.1 The Eagle Rocks / Blabbermouth

Smoke on Enter November

Probably the dumbest news title yet, but “Smoke On The Water,” “Enter Sandman” and “November Rain,” in that order, were voted as the top 3 songs of all time by Swedish radio listeners.

The ‘Top 666 Songs of All Time’ was compiled by Sweden’s Rockklassiker 106.7 station. That’s right, the entries were voted online, so you know the top is bogus since most people are dumb and have shitty tastes in music.
Fourth after GNR‘s classic is AC/DC‘s even more classic “Back In Black,” followed by Metallica‘s “Nothing Else Matters.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love all five of those songs, but are they really the top songs of all time? Not really, some of them are not even the bands’ best songs.

But hey, again, this was voted online, so let’s not give it more credit than we should. Full top after the jump.

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!

Today’s Dose of Metal: Jaymz birthday edition

James Hetfield just turned 48, so I thought it’d be fitting to use this live clip of ‘Nothing Else Matters’ as today’s dose of metal.

This is actually a great performance of the song, from Big Day Out 2004. I wish they still sounded like that, I mean I get they won’t sound like in the 80s and early 90s, but at least early 2000s.

Then again, back then they used to perform ‘Frantic’ live, so maybe it’s better this way.

So enjoy this classic Metallica ballad, the one Metallica song every chick knows. I recommend learning it on guitar, too. It will get you laid. You’ll be fucking fat chicks in no time.