Megazombie Tour
Rob Zombie and Dave Mustaine have one thing in common. They're both involved in unintentionally hilarious movies. Dave was in Some Kind of Monster, Rob directed a few 'horror' films.
But now the guys have two things in common: They're touring together!
These are the dates:
May 11 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
May 12 - Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavilion
May 16 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
May 18 - Grand Rapids, MI @ The Deltaplex
May 20 - Columbus, OH @ Rock On The Range
May 22 - La Crosse, WI @ La Crosse Center
May 24 - Sioux City, IA @ Tyson Center
May 25 - Wichita, KS @ Hartman Arena
May 26 - Pryor, OK @ Rocklahoma
I'm seeing Megadeth again this summer. Not much else to say, really. I just am.
Lemmy is outraged!
Lemmy is apparently pretty pissed off about the new Motörhead box set being sold at $600 in some places. I'll say, that's quite a lot, isn't it?
"Unfortunately, greed once again rears its yapping head. I would advise against it even for the most rabid completists!"
Read full article here.
I advise you to buy it. And if you're gonna spend $600 on that, might as well spend $1,000 on the complete collection of Dose of Metal article, printed on glossy paper for your needs. Email me for more info.
Mordax have a music video!
Mordax are from Denmark, and we've talked about them in the early days of the site. Back then we still had all our photos in black and white, and they were an unsigned band from Copenhagen.
How things have changed, because Mordax are now signed, and we're the biggest metal site in existence. Ok, so we're not really the biggest, but I think we're the biggest metal site that is called 'Dose of Metal,' so that has to count for something, right?
Check their video out, then go to their site for more metal wizardry.
Torture Killer chose death
Torture Killer released their debut album For Maggots To Devour in 2003 and Matti Liuke sang on said album. Juri Sallinen replaced Liuke on a split EP with Satujumala in 2005. Chris Barnes, of Six Feet Under, replaced Sallinen on Torture Killer's second album Swarm! just to be replaced by Sallinen again for their third album Sewers. Fast forward to 2012 and Pessi Haltsonen replaced Sallinen and is about to release an EP with Torture Killer, called I Chose Death.
Despite changing their vocalists more often than changing their socks, Torture Killer's backing band has been rather stable since its inception. And that's exactly where they're very strong. I've always liked Torture Killer for their riffing and melodies. I Chose Death doesn't seem to stray away from that too much and I really like the first song of said EP, which you can listen to below.
Make up your mind about it yourself by listening to it. Torture Killer aren't groundbreaking but I've always had a soft spot for them and I'll definitely get that new EP because they never disappointed me before.
DeVries out, Hughell in… Stroud out, DeVries in
Matt DeVries (picture above on the left), who left Chimaira to join his former Chimaira bandmates Rob Arnold and Kevin Talley in Six Feet Under last year, left Six Feet Under. Former Brain Drill and Vile bassist Jeff Hughell (pictured above on the right) joined Six Feet Under shortly afterwards.
DeVries isn't unemployed now though. Matt joined Fear Factory to replace Byron Stroud (pictured above in the middle), who joined 3 Inches of Blood earlier this year.
To make matters even more confusing, I will now give you some of the official announcements by the bands about their new bassists and I'll black out the names so you'll have absolutely no idea who is talking about whom.
"... is proud to announce our new member, bass player ... He's an amazing musician and I have been a fan of his work since first hearing ... a few years back. We feel with the addition of ..., all the puzzle pieces are in place and the killing machine known as ... is now a true force to be reckoned with! Prepare to be toe tagged and body bagged."
I wonder who said that.
"We are very excited to have ... playing bass for ... We feel he is a great addition to our touring lineup. He has been a friend for a very long time and he is a great musician who will be a perfect instrument in the ... machine."
Hmm, there's a big hint in there about who the band is. Read all the links I provided above and you'll soon know where the announcements came from. Yes, you have to work for your news on Dose of Metal. Nothing is for free here!
North Korea: The sequel
Kim Jong-il is dead, long live Kim Jong-un.
Also, remember the band called North Korea? We wrote about them last year when they released their first EP, The Basement Tapes Vol. 1. New year, new tapes, and the band have earlier today teased the release of the second EP, (shockingly) called The Basement Tapes Vol. 2, scheduled for release on 02 / __ / 2012 -- meaning sometime in the next two weeks. We'll keep you posted with the news of the release.
You can download the first EP (I recommend it) in exchange for a tweet or a Facebook post on this page and you can see a live clip for Master Plan B above.
Meshuggah’s new song title is long
What you can hear and see above is Meshuggah's new lyric video for their recently leaked track Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion.
I have no idea if the track is supposed to indicate that their new album is a concept one dealing with the rise and fall of emo subculture, but hot dayum, that's long. That's what she said, herp.
Anywho, it's fucking Meshuggah, you either love it or you kinda suck.
Acoustic nu metal dubstep Korn cover will bring you success
We all know Korn as the band who invented metal ten years ago. They also reinvented it last year with their metalstep project, and it seems now they're about to do the same to acoustic music.
A while back Metal Hammer posted about the above cover of Korn's Narcissistic Cannibal by British rock band The Dirty Youth. Seems that the band heard the song, and decided to take the band on tour with them for some European dates. Our only guess is that they'll also write a "revolutionary" acoustic album together. Oh wait...
Foo Fighters win the right to be featured on this website
Because they won a "metal" Grammy. A lot of people got super pissed off about this, because the category they won is called hard rock / metal.
To explain: Dear metalheads, hard rock / metal means hard rock OR metal. Not hard rock and metal.
Either way, blame the people at Grammy's who lumped bands like Dream Theater, Mastodon, Megadeth with Sum 41 and Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl did rock out a Slayer shirt (as seen above) so that makes it completely okay, right?
The thing I only care about is finding out if Skrillex won the best singer Grammy <3
#OccupySabbath
Seems a lot of fans feel pissed off about the whole Black Sabbath without Bill Ward situation, so much in fact that they're willing to do the only thing that really counts: gathering on a Facebook page!
No, seriously there's a Facebook page called 1,000,000 Black Sabbath fans say yes to Bill Ward which has been making news lately because it was made to show off the discontent most Black Sabbath feel about this whole "reunion without one member" thing. There's also an online petition organized at change.org, so you can check that out as well.
Now, I don't want to be the cynical asshole, and I actually liked the page myself (and I'd recommend everyone else doing it as well, it's better than just bitching), but I'm not sure how well this will work. Currently, the people who liked the page amount to about a show and a half the band could do on the tour. What's I'd suggest doing, and don't take this advice unless you're really butt hurt about this: Boycott the tour. That's where the biggest money is, and that's the only thing that might send the message across. If you bought the ticket, ask for a refund, because you've most likely bought it when the shows were branded as the "reunion" tour, which the new one won't really be.
In short: #OccupySabbath! I AM THE 25%! Let us know if you have any other ideas. Tag your tweets with my highly original protest hashtag.
Jack Douglas wanted Stephen King to write lyrics for Aerosmith
Whilst we can certainly see why one would think Steven Tyler belongs in the Stephen King universe, the idea of him writing lyrics for the band seems kind of odd. Everyone else thought so too, apparently, but producer Jack Douglas really meant it, yo.
"They looked at me like I was crazy. I said, 'No, I'm serious. If there's anyone who's going to inspire him, it'd be Stephen King. Steven doesn't need melody — he needs someone who's going to inspire him as a wordsmith. I don't want a guy who's just writing hits right now.'"
Read full article here.
Stephen King is a rock/metal fan, so maybe he would have said yes... Someone needs to adapt a Stephen King book and use the screeching sounds from Tyler's national anthem performance to scare the audience off. Fuck it, Stephen Kings needs help from Tyler, not the other way around.
Dave Mustaine says Metallica jam was ‘magical’
As we all know, Dave joined Metallica on stage at their 30th anniversary shows... Dave seems very happy about that, since he keeps saying how great it was. Which is cool, considering the way he talked about Metallica a few years ago...
“I think you can see from the way the guys lit up that it was mutually beneficial for everybody. We all expected something magical to happen, and it did. We were playing stuff off the first record that I’d written in my teenage years. It was a blast.”
Read full article here.
Aww, Dave is in love. <3
Mustaine Spitz Metal
Remember Red Lamb? Well, their album is finally out. Seems like Mustaine's only been co-producing and writing some music and lyrics, but anyhow, you can check it out here. That's it for now, kthxbye.
New Chimaira line-up releases a brand new song
Bass, Bass. Wir brauchen Bass Bass...
New Chimaira bitches!* They gone all old school german rap on us. And like Martin Luther King, they have a dream. I don't recognize anyone in the band, but isn't Chimaira like all new people anyway? Maybe their dream is to get some of the old people back?
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