As Metal Director/DJ at WRUV, plus owner of this website, I get sent a metric shit ton of new music every year. I was once able to house my entire MP3 collection on a 160 GB iPod Classic, but as the inevitable digital shift progressed, my virtual library grew exponentially.

It’s a generic jam session with simple superimposition as its best effect; anyone could have shot this. So as we all question why, I’ll cope through limerick (#36!), cuz that’s how I roll sometimes.

Bravewords posted this video of Lou Reed, James Hetfield, and Lars Ulrich explaining some of the background on “Lulu”, a.k.a. The Worst Album of 2011. I react—angrily.

Rating: 0.5/5
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Mind over Metal Limerick 35

If VIKA is not yet in your vocabulary, allow me to etch her into your brain. She plays innovative, catchy covers of classic rock and metal tunes—by herself, without vocals, using only a keyboard. Her incredible setlist includes: Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, System of a Down, Slayer, Motorhead, and more!

Rating: 4.5/5
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On the eighties thrash metal scene, four bands stood heads taller than the rest of the pack: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Today, more than twenty years later, they all finally played together at the 2010 Sonisphere festival, and it’s clear that many things have changed.

Jeramie King is back with THE ABSENCE, and INFERNAEON has brought in Adam Sagan from INTO ETERNITY. The tour with GWAR is still on, and the video will be for their METALLICA cover of “Creeping Death”, directed by Jackass collaborator Mike Busey.

Check the dates for the two-week stretch, plus check out the video for “All The Tears” and get info on a special offer from Listenable Records!

Metallica – “Death Magnetic” [Warner Bros] … simply put, this is the logical musical progression from …And Justice For All and some of their best original material in two decades … at ~75 min, it could benefit from editing, but Hetfield’s meditations on death are welcome compared with the introspective St. Anger and to again hear Kirk Hammet’s inimitable guitar work is beyond comforting … Rob Trujillo is clearly capable of beefing up the low end (check out 5!) and could just be that missing piece they need for the future … 9 is an instrumental … FCC OK … Try [...read more]