Tag Archives: Metallica

Big Four Headlines

You know how we do a headlines post every now and then, summing up lots of news into one post? Well, over the past couple of days, there have been some news on Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer so I’m just summing those up in a Big Four headlines post. Awesome, right? In-fucking-deed. Let’s get it on.

Lars Ulrich gave an interview to The Press-Enterprise, talking about the Big Four, Metallica being “pretty adventurous” and ‘tallica’s 30th anniversary. Read it here.

Kerry King gave an interview to The Desert Sun, where he talked about Gary Holt replacing Jeff Hanneman, Slayer’s 30th anniversary (I’m having a déjà vu) and the possibility of Slayer retiring. The link to the interview is down at the moment of me writing this, but you can try it yourself here. Here’s an excerpt of what he said about the retirement question:

“I remember people started hitting us up after ‘Christ Illusion’ — ‘How long do you plan to keep going?’ We are making relevant, good music. We’re still putting on good shows and having fun. That’s what it’s all about.”

King also gave an interview to LA Weekly and shared this interesting tidbit about Jeff Hanneman:

“He’s trying his ass off. He’s been talking about playing [the “Big Four“] show [on April 23 in Indio, California], but I just don’t see how physically he’d be able to do that. I’m just being realistic.”

Read the full interview here. Meanwhile Dave Mustaine is praying for Hanneman. I’m sure that’ll help him.

David Ellefson went down memory lane, visited the birthplace of Megadeth — where he met Dave Mustaine in 1983 — and shot a video. Watch the video after the jump.

Scott Ian gave an interview to The Desert Sun (I’m having a déjà vu once again, what the…) and talked about the Big Four (déjà… ah, fuck it) and about Anthrax being “a better band than we were even in 1987 or 1988”. Read the full interview here.

And now make the jump for that video Ellefson, arguably the nicest guy of the Big Four, shot.

Weak Recap: We’re amazing

This is our fifth Weak Recap, which means we ran out of writers to interview so I’m back interviewing Guido. God dammit. At least old man river up there approves.

In case you aren’t familiar with this recap thing, it’s a way for us to whore ourselves interview each other by recapping the week’s news. Pretty cool, right? Wrong… It’s lame and self-indulgent but hey, at least it’s original. Most other sites just do basic lists. Blah, we do shit properly, yo.

Make the jump and if you’re truly bored.

Musicians suck up to Metallica

The Big Four — Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax — are heading over to Indio, California next Saturday April 23. So in honor of this glorious event, ARTISTdirect.com editor author Rick Florino spoke to a few musicians (and I use the term “musicians” loosely) about the first time they heard Metallica and what the band means to them. It’s a truly interesting read… About as exciting as cancer.

Rick spoke to a ton of artists, including Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor, who used the interview to promote his own book. Smooth. Find more on this story over at Blabbermouth, with excerpts from Slash, Jonathan Davis and Sully Erna.

Anyways, if you’re wondering about myself, the details about the first time I heard Metallica can actually be found in my $19.99 autobiography entitled Mark of Dose of Metal – A Metal Journey. Be sure to pick it up..

Stephen King hearts Metallica

Stephen King is a bit like Ozzy Osbourne. His 70s work is legendary but he’s done so much filler stuff since then, it’s hard to take him seriously nowadays. Which is probably why he doesn’t really like Ozzy or Black Sabbath. But instead loves Metallica.

“Metallica, Anthrax. I still listen to those guys … There’s a band called The Living Things that I like a lot. Very loud group. I never cared for Ozzy very much. [Black Sabbath] doesn’t really work for me. ‘I AM IRON MAN!’“

Read full interview here.

I don’t think anyone blames him for not being a huge Ozzy fan but making fun of Black Sabbath? Really? Ozzy should send an evil clown to haunt this guy…

When asked if he he’s honored by this statement, big horror fan Kirk Hammett had no comment. He just said ‘tee hee hee’ and wept.

Tuesday Trivia: The most listened to metal band ever

First of all, iPods don’t have any commercials with metalheads, so blame Apple, not me. Anyway, in his Weak Recap a few weeks back, Guido joked stated that we are super-awesome. Something like the super-heroes of metal. And no, not that Kiss movie… Lulz.

He was right, though — we’re all-knowing, and tonight only, I’m dropping knowledge and revealing the metal’s best kept secret – which metal band is the most played one ever. Hurry, make the jump.