January 2010
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JULIA HAS A QUICKIE WITH CHRISTOPHER AMOTT
Elise was up first, now it’s my turn. I was lucky enough to be able to sit down with Christopher Amott of Arch Enemy when they rolled through NYC last week and we talked about vegetarianism, YouTube… and 70’s style pop/rock? Seeing them perform at the Nokia was just the cherry on top. No wonder they were the band that got me into metal in the first place…
Your brother...
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ELISE YOU WILL HATE
I’ve been pretty slow on posts this week because I’ve been hard at work at a guest blog I just did over at Stuff You Will Hate. Sergeant D recently requested my expertise on tween TV, and I gladly jumped on board. I’m definitely not as funny as those SYWH peepz, but I sure had a good time writing this. Check it out here, and let me know what you think!
And if the post...
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D. RANDALL BLYTHE: MOVIE STAR?
Oh boy. This might be an even worse decision than the time he decided to pick a fight with Mark Morton (<3!) in Scotland.
My love Randy Blythe decided to go the Rob Zombie route and dabble in the movie biz. The film is called The Graves, and GOLLY does it look GORY. There’s more blood in that trailer than there is at your local blood bank (hint hint, PSA, the time to donate is...
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WANNA HEAR AN AWESOME LIVING COLOUR COVER????
Well, you came to the wrong place. Fast forward to the :55 mark to see what I mean.
The lulz just never stop on this show. Thank you, American Idol.
-Elise
P.S. Yes, that is Avril Lavigne as the guest judge for this episode. Yes, she is wearing a hoodie with devil horns on it. Yes, she is 25 years old. And no, she is not a fan of grownup clothes.
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IF CATTLE DECAPITATION GOT INTO FASHION...
…would it kinda look like this?
Huffington Post reports that a new line out of London called RP/Encore makes their uh… statement by turning dead animals fresh off the grill kill into wearable accessories.
Oddly enough, the designer, Reid Peppard, is a vegetarian. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t be too into eating animals either if I was sticking my hands in their dead carcasses all...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKE PATTON!
Mike Patton: the man, the legend…turns 42 today. Kinda makes ya wonder if he’s hit his Midlife Crisis yet. Snort, snort.
Happy Birthday, Mikey! See you in a few months, hopefully.
<3 Elise
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YAYYYY SPORTS!: WHY FOOTBALL IS MORE METAL THAN...
I find that most metalheads aren’t that into sports. Truth be told, I’m not that into sports either, but I do like college football and basketball- It helps when your college team is actually good at them (we’re still working on the football though; baby steps.)
Since I try to go to as many SU games as I can, I’ve noticed that both sports have their metal moments, but...
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WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS LIKE A MUSICAL REFERENCE
I thought a little bit more about yesterday’s post on Slayer Espresso, and it still weirds me out that the company claims to NOT be a direct reference to the band. You hear the word Slayer…you automatically think of the band, right? But there are so many other bands that we could say have “ruined” the English language for us. Whenever I hear any of the following words,...
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE METAL-NAMED ESPRESSO...
I recently received word on a new coffee shop that just opened up here in New York called RBC NYC. They are home to a very special piece of equipment known as the Slayer Espresso machine. Yes, you read that correctly. Someone created a most epic ($18,000) percolator, and appropriately named it the SLAYER.
It’s easy to figure out what my first thoughts were: Was this named after...
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STRAIGHT OUTTA DETWAT: THE TACO BELL DRIVE-THRU...
So you’re driving in your car on your way to grab a case of Miller Lite. Casually flipping through the stations, and all of a sudden Lamb of God starts pumping through your speakers. “WHAT THE FUCK?!” you say, “did I accidentally press ‘disc’? Whats…going…on?” We, as metalheads, are ‘lucky’ to have a genre we can call OURS....
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FASHION FOR THE MOSHING MASSES (SAY THAT 5 TIMES...
Did Jamey Jasta go high fashion or something? Because the models at DSquared’s Fall 2010 show are lookin’ pretty hxc, yo. Blood, black eyes…even wrist bands and baggy shorts.
SMASH YOUR ENEMIES IN STYLE! lulz
-Elise
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A GUITAR I MIGHT BE ABLE TO PLAY
And now something really neat-o for your humpday slump.
I’ve always been jealous of those of you that can play the guitarz. Perhaps it’s the reason I love Rockband- it’s the closest I can get to the real thing. Anywho, this might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen (this week). I’m sure it’s not as easy as it looks, but I’m sure as hell willing...
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WUSSY WEDNESDAY - 1/20/09
Totally going out on a complete limb this week. Wussiness- especially MY wussiness-manifests itself in many different forms, not just in musical tastes. As you know, I can be a little bit of a video game nerd. Usually Guitar Hero/Rockband is my expertise, but lately The beardo and I have been playing a lot of Mario; namely the New Super Mario Brothers for Wii. He found this little gem last night...
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LONG COATS ARE NOT GENRE-SPECIFIC
Shania Twain was the guest judge on American Idol last night, and it felt like I traveled straight back to 1997….because after all these years, that ho is STILL wearing those stupid long coats. Remember this little number from the “That Don’t Impress Me Much” video?
After a couple minutes, I remembered someone else who likes to dress like she’s in the...
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MAYHEM FEST LULZ
According to the Mayhem Fest website.
Korn
Rob Zombie
Lamb of God
Five Finger Death Punch
Atreyu
Norma Jean
In This Moment
3 Inches of Blood
Hatebreed
Chimaira
Shadows Fall
Winds of Plague
Ummm….I cannot speak for anyone else but myself….but it’s like my own personal HELL. A set-up for a really bad joke, maybe? I understand a lot of people like these bands, but this tour...
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TRIVIUM LOVES TURKEYS AND TWO-TONE SHOES
What could be better than paying for winning tickets to see your favorite band? Meeting the band? Sure, that’s cool. But give me a premise that’s new and exciting- screw the traditional meet and greet! LET’S BOWL BITCHES.
Trivium has announced that Ticketek is having a drawing where when you buy a ticket to the Soundwave Festival you’re automatically entered for a...
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THE COUGHING, SNEEZING, SORE THROAT, RUNNY NOSE,...
Hatebreed is postponing the first three shows of their headlining tour because Señor Jamey Jasta is sicky icky. I think we all know what’s wrong, and there’s only ONE way to fix it:
Get well soon, buddy.
-Julia
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WHEN MY WORLDS COLLIDE: MEET IRON WEASEL
Anyone who knows me, knows that my true expertise is kiddie television. I pretty much got my PhD in it. In fact, I could probably start my own version of Stuff You Will Hate devoted only to Disney and Nickelodeon TV shows, but….I’ll just stick with this for now.
Anyway, a new show that ALL OF YOU ARE TOTALLY GOING TO HATE is starting tonight on The Disney Channel Disney XD,...
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WHEN GAGA GOES METAL, ALL GOES TO HELL
I don’t know why we end up talking about Lady Gaga so much or when it started, but at least it hasn’t gotten old for me yet.
Lady HooHah was on Oprah and performed a montage of her singles, but let’s just say it wasn’t the easiest performance of her life.
EXHIBIT A: The Outfit. I see where you’re going with this, Ms. Halford, but it seems as if the metal...
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THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY FAITH NO MORE TRIBUTE BANDS
I’ve been sitting here, waiting and wishing for these damn FNM tour dates to be announced so I can finally think about something else….and my friend sends this my way: A Small Victory, a FNM tribute band from right here in Brooklyn. AWESOME! Sort of. They sound kinda ehhh. Well, they have a show at Club Europa with a PRIMUS tribute band next Friday. I’m not sure I can go,...
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YOWZA
If I wore these, I’d…..
a) Be about 6’5.
b) Be a metal trophy wife.
c) Look like a stegosaurus.
d) OOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!
e) All of the above.
-Elise
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ELISE HAS A QUICKIE WITH DEVIN TOWNSEND
Yes, everyone…RiB is growing up. I did an interview, and it looks like Julia and I will be doing quite a few more in the future. This is how I like ‘em: short and sweet. Here’s my first “Quickie” with the man responsible for my #1 album of 2009: Mr. Devin Townsend. You can currently catch him on tour with Between the Buried and Me, Cynic, and Scale the Summit. ...
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STRAIGHT OUTTA DETWAT: I LOVE HOMOSEXUALS, BUT...
YOU. YOU THERE! HEY! YOU LOOK LIKE A FAG. Yes, you. Stop prancing around and pay attention. All of you hardcore “dancers” out there ruining the pits, this one goes out to…you.
There is nothing I hate more in this world then hardcore “moshing”. Well, besides Lady Gaga, but that’s a conversation for another day. When I go to a show to watch a band and...
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WUSSY WEDNESDAY - 1/13/09
You may remember from my Best of 2009 post that I had a couple favorite cheesy pop songs. That’s right, I’m not afraid to admit shakin my ass from time to time. But for some reason the musical powers that be don’t want this one particular tune to leave my brain anytime soon, as I have been dancing around a lot more than usual this past week. God help me. At least...
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PANTY RAID! MEET MR. JANUARY
Straight off the success of our dear Angela Gossowski’s first post (‘sup HU4L!), New York’s own talent booker/show promoter extraordinaire Rich Hall shot me an IM demanding that he get to write for RiB, too. “No Rich Hall,” I said. (Rich Hall is a full-name person) “You’re a boy. This is a girly blog.” He then pitched me a marvelous idea. ...
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FOR WHOM THE WEDDING BELL TOLLS
Well well well, looks like the love bug is going around these here metal parts. Wedding season is typically in the spring/early summer months, but I guess that cheesy pretty shit doesn’t fly for us. Getting married in the DEAD OF FREEZING COLD WINTER? Sounds like a pretty brutal idea, or perhaps a new song title idea for Mayhem… OR rather, Behemoth?
Couple #1: Nergal and Polish...
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SOME ARTS & CRAFTS FOR YOUR SUNDAY
I don’t knit, so I’m not really sure why I was snooping around this chick’s blog. But I noticed she had made a Nine Inch Nails beanie and thought it was pretty friggin’ adorable. She actually went through the trouble of creating the pattern for this herself, too. (I could do without that stupid pink part at the bottom, but whatever.) Anyone could go and buy band...
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SCREAM FOR YOUR SUPPER
Something that’s been on my mind this week is the topic of singing (clean) vocals vs. screaming/growling etc (from the BOWELS of your lungs. THE BOWELS!). Do the vocals of the music define whether it is or is not METAL?
Now in my opinion, the vocal quality- the range, the tone, the quality, glottal, even the volume of the voice doesn’t make or break the classification of...
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BLACK METAL 'CLARITY'
Just found this little treasure over at the Washed Up Emo blog. I’m not sure if this is old, but looks like Jimmy Eat World have jumped on the ironic-metal-merch bandwagon along with Tegan & Sara’s black metal-inspired shirt and John Mayer’s tour crew shirt. (Any others out there? Send them my way!)
I’m sure some die-hards are going to be offended by this kinda...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, \M/ELVIS!
If people are going to keep celebrating Dimebag’s birthday, we should all celebrate Elvis Presley’s, too. Once I had an argument with someone over whether or not “old standards” like Elvis or The Beatles had any profound effect on the “tuff” music we listen to now. I firmly believe that they did. Not necessarily for music stylings, but for...
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AND SPEAKING OF SHAT...
Might THIS be the Cunt-a-Doodle Do he is referring to? Truth be told, this actually sounds completely normal if you close your eyes.
People keep asking me where I find all these weird ass videos. Well, this one was passed along to me by a very “indie” friend of mine who’s on a hunt for his Hipster Wife. Sadly, I can not accommodate him.
-Elise
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TIME. THE FUCK. OUT.
You know what I think is funny? YouTube clips, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, little nugget babies making funny faces… cutting yourself doesn’t exactly rate on the hilarious scale in my book.
sarrah3tears 33 minutes ago in reply to allhailundeadi know! you know what’s funny? i had a friend who killed herself, actually. who used to cut herself. who was fucking IN LOVE with...
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THE RETURN OF SHAT
I heard through the grapevine that Shat was making a new album a few months back, and it looks like it’ll be here sooner than later! According to Buddyhead, Shat’s newest jam, CUNT-A-DOODLE DO will be recorded later this month, and their MySpace says it’s due out in March! Some “possible” song titles are listed below:
1. SMOKE POT 2. CELL PHONE, WALLET,...
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STRAIGHT OUTTA DETWAT: ANGELA GOSSOWSKI TAKES THE...
Ladies and gentlemen: we’ve expanded! Today marks the debut of our new contributor: Angela Gossowski, who will now be authoring some longer-form posts in her column called STRAIGHT OUTTA DETWAT. No, she’s not blonde…but this blog was never meant to revolve primarily around our hair color. AG simply fits in with our brand of silly, outspoken, girly metal humor…so it was a...
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LOOSEN UP MY BUTTONS, TORCHE (UH HUH!)
Yesterday, Deciblog posted the video for a new Torche song, called “King Beef” and I’m completely in love with it. It kind of sounds like something you could belly dance to, or something they’d play inside some sort of torture chamber. Maybe I’m belly dancing so I can convince the guard to set me free?
Anyway, “King Beef” will be a track on a new...
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WUSSY WEDNESDAY - 1/6/09
Speaking of Nirvana, and since the MTV Unplugged album is one of my favorites ever, I decided that this week we’ll go WAYYYYYY back to the OG version of “Where did you sleep last night?” A mid-morning, “know your roots” kind of wussy wake-up if you will. Keep it real, y’all.
-Julia
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WHOA.
You may have noticed a lack of Julia posts on the site recently. Well, I’m still around, no worries- I just got caught up in the holiday bustle, my bad. In any way, I hope you all had a most metal holiday and rockin New Years, and speaking of the latter, here are some resolutions of mine that I wanted to share with you all, and what I want to bring to RiB in 2010:
MORE POSTS, MORE...
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SUICIDE CYRUS FTW
Ya know…the weirdest part about watching this is realizing that I actually like Miley Cyrus way more than I like Suicide Silence.
Deathcore…more like Deathwhore. Snort, snort.
-Elise
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THE NIRVANA MASHUP MASHDOWN
People get so pissed off when you mess with Nirvana, so here we go again…
It’s nothing new that people like to cash in on Kurt Cobain’s life…but I can’t help but feel that the reason for “jamz” like these is because a lot of people who don’t primarily listen to rock still sort of consider Nirvana the most “extreme” thing they’ve...
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PSHHHH, WHATEVER COREY TAYLOR
I have a picture with Penn Jillette, too. Quit actin’ like you all cool n shit.
[via VegasNews]
-Elise
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CAN THE HATERZ AND HEADBANGERZ UNITE FOR A COMMON...
A few days ago, I did a post about how a member of Hollywood Undead is competing on American Idol this season. That’s right, kids. I broke the news. In a few days, when those big-timers at Blabbermouth finally do a post on it, you’ll know you heard it here first. Anyway, I got some flack from some fans in the comments. I realized some people sort of missed the point of my post,...