Get your free Dia De Los Muertos album

Are you guys excited for the new Dia De Los Muertos album!? What, you’ve never heard of them? No, me neither. But don’t worry, because they’re given away their album for free, over at www.DDLM.net, so it’s not like it’s actually going to cost you anything, other than your time.

“We are very proud of finally being able to deliver this album to metal fans from all corners of the globe, regardless of their financial situation. We don’t want your money. True metal has never been about milking money out of the fans. If you like the band, we only ask you to download this album and play it as loud as you can! Metal to the masses!” comments the band’s drummer, lfonso Pinzón.

Source: Blabbermouth

Dose of Metal attempted translation*: ‘We can’t sell our music, so may as well give it away for free and hope it grabs us some attention and hype, so later down the road we can make money other ways.’

*May not be accurate, or even close to being correct. Come to think of it, I’m not even sure Dia De Los Muertos are really a band. I may have dreamt this after sniffing glue sticks, ’cause I’m hardcore.

‘Bang your own head, not a seal’s’

Talking of sexism (see previous post), Alissa White-Gluz of The Agonist recently had something important to say in a video, but I wasn’t paying any attention ’cause she’s hot. No, but seriously, of course I was paying attention.

Alissa has joined with peta2, the youth animal rights organization, for an advert opposing Canada’s annual seal slaughter. The ad shows Alissa above a photo of a baby seal who is about to be clubbed and reads, “Bang Your Own Head, Not a Seal’s.” More information can be found over at Blabbermouth.

A lot of people aren’t fans of Peta for whatever reason, but I think we can all agree that cruelty and abuse of animals is absolutely despicable, vile, and can not be accepted.

Girls have balls too

Why can’t women drive? Because there’s no road between the kitchen and bedroom. Why can’t women sing Metal? Because that is neither sex, cleaning or cooking.

But seriously, sexism is something I cannot condone. Just check out the girl above screaming her way through Heaven Shall Burn‘s To Inherit The Guilt. She does a brilliant job, putting most men to shame, and certainly has more balls than myself. She needs to find herself a kitchen band ASAP.

Weekly Dose of Metal: Old Man’s Child

Everyone knows that Dimmu Borgir fucking suck, right? I don’t have to go into detail here. There’s one member in that band who’s very talented though and that’s guitarist Galder. Galder joined Dimmu Burger in 2000 but started his own band in 1993, called Old Man’s Child.

What does the name stand for? The Old Man is supposed to represent the Devil, so it’s The Devil’s Child.

In this on-and-off project, Galder plays all instruments, except the drums, himself. Old Man’s Child released seven albums so far, the latest, ‘Slaves of the World,’ being from 2009. Here’s a song of that album, called ‘The Crimson Meadows’.

Some boring headlines

Time for some headlines, folks, and trust me, they’ll bore you to death.

Queensrÿche (pictured above… i think… it’s not the 80s, is it?) are talking about their new album and, you guessed it, it’s “going in another direction.” If I had a blowjob for every time I heard that…

Lars Ulrich is an actor now. A photo of him on the set pictured and I can only describe it with three letters: LOL

Nevermore are embarking on a clinic tour around Serbia, Italy and Greece. I wish Paramore would do the same. I heard Serbian laws for rape are pretty forgiving.

Nick Oliveri is not working with Homme yet. He squashed those rumors in a recent interview. Too bad the one spreading them was himself.