Drunk man searches for Ozzy

This story is one we can all identify with, I’m sure.

According to the Tahoe Daily Tribune, an 18 year old teenager was arrested early Monday morning after he went on a drunken hunt for Ozzy Osbourne, which led to him throwing a flower pot through the glass panel of a front door at a South Lake Tahoe, California home. And no, it wasn’t Ozzy‘s home.

But honestly, who can say that they’ve never done this before? This used to be a regular Friday night event for me.

The man allegedly caused $8,000 of damage. Read more on the story at Blabbermouth.

Tuesday Trivia: The longest Metal songs ever

So it’s that time again, it’s the weekly feature, Tuesday Trivia, which, erm, we haven’t actually done in a couple of weeks now. Apologies about that, but we are all regular guys, with day jobs, and we’ve all been super busy recently (did I just say super busy? Ugh never mind). But what do you care? I know, I need to stop babbling.

So what’s this week’s Tuesday Trivia on? Well, Metal as a general rule, is an ambitious genre and bands are always trying to out do eachother. Metal also doesn’t confine itself to “rules” and if they want to write a song that’s longer than the average length (which is 3:30 for those interested), then they’ll damn well do it. So, with that in mind, this week’s Trivia is about the longest Metal tracks.

Make the jump for the longest article ever (just kidding, it’s not that long).

Judas Priest clarify “Farewell Tour”

If by “farewell tour” they mean it’s not a farewell tour at all…

Judas Priest have one again decided to clarify the meaning of their farewell tour, on an online posting on their official website. Why? I can only assume some people are still confused. I don’t understand why all the confusion though. I mean, what does “farewell tour” say to you? It means the band are planning a final tour before they go into retirement, doesn’t it? Oh no wait, with Judas Priest it just means that it’s going to be their final world tour, and that they will continue to write music and tour, just not big world tours.

Seriously though, I’m beating a dead horse here, as are the band. We get it, you wanted to hype up a tour by screwing with semantics. Good for you.

“We would like to clarify a situation that seems to be confusing a few people out there.

When we issued our press release to announce the farewell tour – we stated that it was the last major world tour for Judas Priest – nothing has changed – we didn’t say it was the end of the band or that we were going to retire or the band was going to break up……….. Just that it would be the last major world tour we would be doing which is still the case.

We have plans for a new album (which we have already announced in an earlier press release) plus possible future releases and we would still consider doing the odd live show – if it is something special or for a great cause – but no more world tours.”

Source: judaspriest.com

Metal Hammer’s Golden God results

The UK’s Metal Hammer hosted their very “special” awards ceremony, The Golden Gods, last night. We at Dose of Metal at times have considered hosting our own awards ceremony, but ultimately we’re just not self-indulgent or pretentious enough to attempt such a feat. Actually, it’s just we’re too lazy, poor and not big enough to pull it off. Instead though, we can just look at other award ceremonies, and criticize them, which is exactly what I’m going to be doing.

Winners include Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rob Zombie and many more. Find the complete results, plus my own little thoughts and criticism below.

* Best New Band – The Damned Things —- Meh, debut was catchy, but overall fairly mediocre.
* Metal As F*ck – Nergal (Behemoth) —- No argument here.
* Best Underground – Primordial —- Also no arguments here.
* Dimebag Darrell Shredder(s) – Gus G. (FIREWIND, OZZY OSBOURNE) —- Yeah, Gus is pretty awesome.
* Breakthrough Artist – Sabaton —- Who??
* Best UK Band – Iron Maiden —- Of course. Question though, do Iron Maiden win every year? 😛
* Best Live Band – Skindred —- Skindred? Fuck off.
* Inspiration Award – Twister Sister —- Twisted Sister? No thanks
* Best International Band – Avenged Sevenfold —- Fuck off.
* Best Album – “Absolute Dissent” by Killing Joke —- Haven’t heard it yet, so unsure on this one, but I bet there’s better.
* Event of the Year – “The Big 4” coming together for first time ever in the U.K. —- Yeah, as a UK citizen, this is awesome.
* Riff Lord(s) – Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein (DOWN) — Down are great, but there’s a lot of riff lords I guess.
* Spirit of Hammer – Diamond Head — Yeah, I guess I’m cool with this.
* Icons – Judas Priest —- Undeniably deserving of the title.
* Golden God – Rob Zombie —- Rob Zombie sucks.

Yahoooo

Some fucking brilliant news for all you Metalheads this morning, Disturbed frontman David Draiman has announced the band will take a break after their South American tour. I mean it’s a bit shit for you South American guys out there, but just think, you only have to endure one last tour and then you can kiss this band goodbye, for at least a while. Disturbed have been disturbing me (I’m hilarious right?) for years with their music, so I’m looking forward to this absence, even if it’s just a break.

Seriously, life could not get any better than this right now. Well, apart from if I got a real job, or a girlfriend, some money would be nice too, perhaps a car, some friends, but they’re all on my list after “Disturbed stop making music”.

More information over at Blabbermouth.