Yearly Archives: 2011
God bless reviews
Ozzy Osbourne is a very contradicting character. He’s a legend, yet he gets laughed at. He helped create metal music, yet it’s MTV that relaunched his career. He can barely string a sentence together, yet he’s one of the funniest people ever. You can’t just put a label on this guy… Or on his wife… Or on his kids… Sometimes they annoy you, other times they make you laugh, other times they make you go “WTF?”.
One thing is certain, they’re all pretty entertaining to watch, albeit in small doses.
So what about his new documentary, ‘God Bless Ozzy Osbourne‘? Well, I wanna see it. I really do. And it recently got reviewed by Entertainment Weekly, and it’s pretty positive… There’s one word in that review that really makes me want to see this thing… They say the film is honest. That’s very important.
If you can make it to the Tribeca Film Festival, check it out. It’s playing on April 28th and 30th.
Headlines!
It’s time for more headlines. News that aren’t worth individual posts. Wait, I shouldn’t have said that, right? Oh well…
Adler’s Appetite revealed their new line-up. Problem is, I didn’t even know who was in the band before and well, I don’t give a shit either. But anyhow, Patrick Stone is their new vocalist and Lonnie Paul will be playing the guitar from now on. Woop de doo.
All Shall Perish announced the title of their upcoming album and it’s going to be called… drumroll please… ‘This Is Where It Ends’ and I can only hope so.
When asked how far into writing a new album Mastodon have been so far, Brann Dailor (drums) said this in an interview:
“It’s coming along really good. We’re just about done. I’m excited to get into the studio and start recording.”
Jamey Jasta recently talked a bit about his upcoming solo album. Here’s what he had to say:
“It’s just more of the thrash and rock element in it. I think there’s a lot more clean singing than I’m used to doing. It’s a lot of stuff that I recorded for other artists, but it ended up sounding cool so I just left it in there. My engineer was really liking the stuff that I was doing. I still have a lot of guest parts on there — Randy Blythe from Lamb of God, Zakk Wylde, Phil Labonte , Tim from As I Lay Dying, Mark Morton from Lamb of God — so it’s just like a fun project before we do the next Hatebreed album.”
And last but not least, the Big Four were presented with double platinum (pictured above) plaques for the Big Four DVD. Picture of the happy guys after the jump.
Review: Tesseract – One
Photo by Kristell Gathoye
A Tesseract is some sort of shape or something (yeah, I do my research!), but this particular review is of a certain Djent band’s debut album, not some mathematical shit. Don’t know what Djent is? Don’t worry; we’ve already got that covered. Don’t know who Tesseract are? Don’t worry; we’ve also got that covered too. We’re just awesome like that.
The band’s debut album, called One, has been released through Century Media Records, and it’s a bit of an odd one, and not just because it’s Progressive and weird (although it is BTW). It’s a weird one (no pun intended – you know, ‘cause the album is called One and all) because it turns out that the bulk of the album is actually made up of the band’s previously released Concealing Fate EP, released some time last year. Then there are 5 new tracks, and by new, I mean most of those are just re-recorded songs that have been heard before in some form or another. I think only one or two songs are completely new. That’s ok though, because the band are still relatively new (At least to most people) and this is their debut, so I’ll let them off.
Make the jump for the review.
Weak Recap: Hello, we’re metal!
We’re one of the last of a dying breed. We’re the Albert Einstein of brutality, the William Shakespear of violence, the Arnold Schwarzenegger of funny, the Michael Jackson of metal. All these comparisons are way off though… because we’re better than those guys and we’re certainly better than anyone else out there, including you!
We’re so good, we’re interviewing each other. Who needs interviews with musicians, who have been interviewed already thousands of times? No one!
So, you want to know what happened this past week in metal? Make the jump, we’ll teach you a lesson.
