Facebook > Iced Earth fanclub

If you’re like me, you’ve joined the Iced Earth fanclub and are now disappointed to see it being shut down. But besides you and me, nobody else really joined it, so don’t feel bad.

“On September 1st of this year, we launched the official Iced Earth Facebook page. We had no idea what would happen. All we knew is that other bands were on Facebook, and hundreds of fans requested that we be on it as well. So we asked our publicist, Bill Murphy, to create the official Iced Earth Facebook page for us.“

“With the world’s economy in such rough shape, and people having to scrape together their hard-earned money to buy basic necessities,” Schaffer said, “we thought we could best serve our fans by giving them communication, interaction, access to the band, fun giveaways, and exclusive news on Facebook, without charging them a dime.“

Read full article here.

Translation: Nobody joined our fanclub (except Alex and some other guy) because Facebook and Twitter rendered fansites and fanclubs obsolete. So we had to shut it down and rely on Facebook, and we’re gonna brag about how many ‘likes’ we got so you don’t think we’re unpopular or something.

Rent-A-Metallica: The setlist

Metallica are now playing private parties and bar mitzvahs. They just did a private gig for Activision, so check out some fan filmed videos and their abridged setlist, after the jump.

If you have a private party and would like them to perform, all you gotta do is ask, man… And pay, of course…

When asked if he’d kick the shit out of 90s and 2000s James Hetfield, 80s James Hetfield had no comment.

Firewind of Change

Greek metal band Firewind have supported Scorpions on their recent big stadium show in Athens. And yes, the only reason I’m posting this is because I couldn’t miss the opportunity of using the pun in the title . But hey, they don’t get to appear on a site as awesome as this every day, so it’s a win-win situation, really. See a few videos after the jump.

More shows? Hellyeah!

If you’re into metal and cowboys, you’re in for a treat, because your favorite band, Hellyeah, just added a few more county fairs and rodeo shows to their current tour. They’re also releasing a new single called “Cowboy Way“.

On a side note, I wonder if I could have squeezed in a few sodomy references in there… Too late for that now! Make the jump and see their December dates.

Head hit himself in the head

Brian “Head” Welch, the former guitarist for Korn, and current solo Christian artist touring bars and writing more books than he has probably read in his life, recently spent a good portion of his live show bleeding from his head. No, you can’t make shit like that up. Apparently, he banged his head against the mic stand. Hmmmm, yeah… Maybe if by “bang” he means “got in the way of” and by “mic stand” he means “an unidentified object from the audience”. Unfortunately that part wasn’t caught on video.

What’s fun is fun, but the beginning of the video you’re about to see if you make the jump goes into the “WTF” category, the guy is definitely suffering from a bit of an identity crisis, to put it nicely. He plays a few Korn songs after that, which makes it worth the watch. Or not.