Are you metal, punk?

Helloween, the band who cleverly mixed two words, “Halloween” and “hell” (Helloween, Halloween + Hell, get it? Amazing stuff), released a new music video. And they only have one question… Do you feel metal? Well, do ya, you punks?

Video after the jump…

When asked why the beginning of the song sounds like Mortal Kombat’s theme, Helloween had no comment.

The Sword slays tour

We’ve got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is, The Sword have canceled their European tour. The good news is that they also canceled the remaining U.S. dates they had, so all you Americans saying “Ahh, not fair, Europe always gets the best cancellations” can finally see some justice coming your way.

The reason? ‘Unforeseen circumcisions,’ says their official Facebook page. Although I might have read that wrong…

Rejoice! Trivial Trivium are back

Good news. Everyone’s favorite trivial cover band, Trivium, are heading into the studio in December to record the follow up to 2008’s Shogun. This will also be the first release with new drummer, Nick Augusto (not pictured above).

Who will Metallica Trivium rip-off draw inspiration from next? Lol Who cares?

Headlines

Scott Weiland (pictured above) is drunk even when sober. Hear him mumble in an interview even though he claimed to be on the wagon.

Honda is trying to be cool, so their new minivan commercial features Judas Priests‘ “The Hellion.” See the commercial, after the jump.

And speaking of Judas, Rob Halford was recently interviewed on a radio show named after a Boss pedal (The Metalzone).

Altars of Destruction released a new music video. Is it any good? No. Does it look like a home video from the 80s? Yes. Can I watch it after the jump? Hell yeah.

Girls will be girls

All-girl tribute bands. We all love them, don’t we? AC/DShe, Judas Priestess, The Iron Maidens etc. Why do we love them though? Because it’s chicks playing metal. That’s the very definition of hot.

It got me thinking though. All these all-girl tribute bands are playing Heavy Metal or Hard Rock. That’s pretty sweet already but wouldn’t it be awesome if there was an all-girl Death Metal tribute band? The girls already have all the advantages on their side to make it in Death Metal. They bleed. So once a month, they’d have the goriest performance you’ve ever seen.

Or what about an all-girl Bloodbath tribute band? Or covering Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Roots Bloody Roots or Blood for the Bloodgod?

See? This already looks like a career and that’s more than half of the bands, that are already being covered, could claim nowadays. So girls, if you’re reading this site (and I highly doubt that), start an all-girl Death Metal tribute band. We’ll be the first one to interview you.