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Iron Maiden: The book

Iron Maiden will release a book. When? In May. What about? Their studio time. Why? $$

“John Blake Publishing will release “Iron Maiden: In The Studio” by music biographer Jake Brown. Spanning the band’s entire 30-year catalog, the writing and recording of such classic albums as “The Number of the Beast”, “Piece of Mind”, “Brave New World” and “The Final Frontier”, and hits as “2 Minutes to Midnight”, “Wasted Years”, “Can I Play With Madness?”, “Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter”, “The Wicker Man”, “The Trooper”, “Run To The Hills”, “Powerslave” and “Hallowed Be Thy Name”, among countless others, is chronicled.”

Read full article here.

I’m also releasing a book. It’s called “Dose Of Metal: Sex without condoms” and it will chronicle my sexual escapades on Chatroulette.com.

Big Vier in Deutschland danke schon Rammstein

I have no idea what I just said in the title since I don’t know German but if you do, congratulations. You’ll be able to catch them live, you lucky bastards. Here’s a post from Metallica.com:

“If you’ve been following along, you know that the Big 4 of Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and ‘Tallica already have two shows scheduled in Europe in July… well, the party is expanding! We’re here today to tell you about and addition to the European vacation with a show in Gelsenkirchen, Germany at the Veltins Arena on July 2, 2011.

Tickets go on sale on Saturday, February 19 at 9:00 AM local time at www.eventim.de.“

Full post here.

Beer, wursts and Big Four. Doesn’t get any better than this, unless you also get to bang Megan Fox.

Mustaine 2.0

Say what you will about Phil Anselmo‘s past, but the guy is man enough to admit what he did wrong. Which brings me to Dave Mustaine. I always thought he always blamed the press for some of the things he said, they may misquote and exaggerate, but some words were generally his and no one ever turned “I love Metallica and Slayer” into “I hate Metallica and Slayer!“ — right?

Well, the new Dave admits he was wrong to do some of the things he used to do and I personally applaud him for that.

“I think a lot of it was contingent on me, because I was going through a lot of personal stuff that really put an unnecessary wall between all of us. A lot of it has been publicized, a lot of it wasn’t. Most of it was the much heralded and worn stories of drugs and alcoholism“ says Dave about The Big Four concerts.

Full interview here.

So I’m thinking… Yeah, Dave makes sense and I agree. Then I read this.

“But there was also the other side — the black magic and witchcraft I had gotten into when I was a kid. Fortunately, I’m saved now so I don’t have to deal with that. But God, man, I was going through so much turmoil from what I had done. And it it’s just the consequences of poor choices. People would go, “Man, he has the worst luck in the world.” No, not really. I had practiced black magic and was friends with Satan, so those things kind of happen when you make bad choices.“

Wait… What??

Argh…

Don’t listen to Metallica and drive

Here is a clip from Romania with a Metallica fan too busy listening to Master of Puppets to notice the large SUV cutting him off. Shit happens, I guess.

I don’t know who was behind the wheel but I assume it was Dracula.

Don’t worry, both drivers are fine and have no injuries. I hope they learned their lesson: When driving, only listen to Pantera.

Source: TraficTube

Dave doesn’t like being called a ‘lady’

Jimmy Kimmel sent some Mexican guy to the Grammys and the joke was “a rose for the lady” being said over and over again while that dude was handing out roses. Hilarious, right? Indeed, original too. Genius.

Anyway, the dude went to Dave Mustaine with the same great joke and Dave was not amused. Dave‘s response? “Fuck you! Go away!” then he shoved that guy and threw the rose at the camera.

I can’t say I blame him. He’s there representing metal. You can’t do that to the guy who co-founded two of the Big Four. But Dave, you could have handled it a bit better. Like, I don’t know, saying “Thank you” then headbutting him in his mustache? The possibilities are endless. Aren’t you trained in karate? How about a roundhouse kick?

Video after the jump.