Metal posers
Posers. They’re everywhere. However, nothing gets my blood boiling more than “metal posers,” and by that I mean, of course, people who pretend they listen to metal just to seem cool.
And for the record, I used a Guitar Hero picture just because it’s the perfect embodiment of posing – geeks thinking they can actually play instruments. I have nothing against the game per se, I think it’s a fun game for regular people and musicians alike, but some of those people who do ok in the game think they can actually play guitar, and that pisses me off.
So my rant is about posers, read after the jump, it’s not gonna be too short.
The Fatboys are back
Getting excited about Exciter releasing their new album ‘Death Machine’ is pretty hard for me. Why? Because they just posted a new song, cleverly titled ‘Death Machine’, on their MySpace page. And it’s boring as fuck.
If you’re excited about Exciter, check out the album artwork and track listing after the jump.
What are clinics?
Musical clinics, how do they work? I’ve just read an article about Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover doing drum clinics in November (read the article here) and I realized that I don’t even know what the hell a drum clinic is.
A quick Google search gave me exactly 3 results but maybe I’m just too stupid to properly use Google. Google ain’t rocket science though so “What is a drum clinic” should work, shouldn’t it? Oh well. One of these results was pretty helpful though. Some guy on a forum had the following explanation:
“Firstly if you’ve heard of Drumfest or Drummer live then a clinic is a condensed single drummer version of that. Usually around a couple of hours long, its an opportunity to see high profile or just great players and tap into their experience. Content varies but includes solos, play alongs, occasionally a live band, questions and answers, interaction etc etc. ”
Source: Cambs Drumming
Sounds, well, boring. Who wants to see a drummer solo for a couple of hours? If you want to see this particular drummer in action, why not go to the band’s concerts? Maybe I just don’t get it because I’m not a musician myself though.
So apparently guitar clinics are pretty much the same as drum clinics but guitars are more interesting than drums. So drummers are fucked. Sorry Shawn.
Attack rescheduled, UK safe (for now)
The test of true metalhead. Pictured above is:
a) a catholic girl school choir
b) group photo of random Hot Topic employees
c) UNICEF’s campaign photo for scene kids beatdown prevention (titled: “It’s bad enough for them having to pay huge electricity bills due to hairdryer overuse)
In case you said a, b, c, all three combined or shit, you are a metalhead. In case you said Attack Attack! you are a scene kid and you should stop wearing roadkill on your head.
For the normal folk out there, Attack Attack! is that band who was famous for about five minutes last year when they released Stick Stickly video and invented the crabcore subgenre (33% metalcore, 33% electronica, 33% crab… and 100% crap).
Now, I didn’t know these guys still existed, let alone toured, but it seems to be the case. Anyway, the scene kids in UK might slit their wrists, while the rest of you can pull out those earplugs, because they canceled their UK tour (for the moment).
“We are super bummed that we had to postpone due to Johnny’s illness, but we are more excited than ever to have the shows rescheduled already. The UK has been a huge priority for us for a long time and we’re not going to let anything stand in our way. Thank you to everyone who bought tickets so far in advance, and we look forward to seeing all of you soon!”
We’re not too sure if a broken vocoder or a bad case of crabs could be counted as an illness, but so be it. In case you are bored and want to see the infamous lulfest that the video is, make the jump.
Dave Mustaine is megaunfunny
As we mentioned earlier, Megadeth released a new song especially for the new Guitar Hero game.
But now, watch an interview of Dave Mustaine talking about it and trying hard to be funny, after the jump.
Hey Dave, why are you here?
I was hitchhiking and I ran out of thumb!
OMGFUNNYLOLZLMAO!!111111111111111
