QUOTE OF THE DAY

INTERVIEWER: Crappiest moment in music in the last 30 years?

“Two words, Fred Durst” -Chris Adler

Happy new year! Hope 2011 is isn’t full of crappy moments.

-Julia

RANDY BLYTHE: DUMB ENOUGH TO SWING AT MARK MORTON, SMART ENOUGH TO LEAVE HIM ALONE AFTERWARDS

Oh hey, remember me? Sometimes I write here. Anyways…

I tend to write about Lamb of God a lot cause, uh… they’re one of my faves. But I just read this article on Noisecreep that brought up a pretty good point. Before their upcoming South American/Australian fall tour, the members of Lamb of God are purposely avoiding each other. Why? Because they’ll see each other ENOUGH when they’re ON TOUR. In a BUS. CONFINED SPACES. That might be the smartest thing my friend Mr. Blythe has ever done. He says:

“We tour so much. We’ve been on tour well over a year off and on, and we know our s—- so well we really don’t need to practice. If we need to do a new song for the set we just run through it at sound check a few times and then we’re good to go.”

Good! We saw what happened the last time you guys spent too much time together (See video above, if you haven’t seen it already. Hermit) More bands should do the same I think. How many bands break up/take a break due to fighting within the band? We all need some time to ourselves every now and then- If some down time keeps the band together, then so be it. 

What now broken up bands do you think could’ve used a little more individual “me-time”?

-Julia

ON A SCALE FROM 1-10, HOW COOL ARE YOUR FAVORITE METAL DUDES?

Someone linked me to this ‘Metalliblog’ guy recently, pointing out what an asshole he was. Homeboy did a big long ass post on how nice/mean some people from bands were when he first met them. He has a rating system 1-10, and then gives some notes. At first I thought this was kind of douchey, as if he was expecting every single person from every single band to kiss his ass. But then as I read through a lot of his ratings, I realized that a couple of his assessments are actually quite funny. Here are a couple highlights:

—Willie Adler (Lamb of God guitarist) - Another humorless, ugly douchebag in the band. Doesn’t seem to care that fans are waiting to meet him until after he’s cried over his wife in Virginia, who’s probably fucking the local milkman. Little brother to Chris, who is far more humble and polite. Gave me flack for taking a picture too long. 2

—Rob Barrett (Cannibal Corpse guitarist) - No complaints here really. Will take pics for fans. Friendly enough, but has a weird girlfriend, or perhaps she was just a New York groupie, so he shouldn’t be blamed for having no taste in females. 7

—Matt Pike (High on Fire singer and guitarist) - Man, who decided to give this guy a bong? Totally wasted and incoherent pothead/drunk. Slobbered on my shirt when taking our pic together. Seems like a party, but might take it too far. Sloppy-looking and fat, he loves to perform shirtless and may cause you to lose your lunch. Friendly and playful, just don’t feed him after midnight. 9

Check out the rest here. If any of you ever meet me, I expect you all to do the same thing this guy did. Srsly.

Who’s the nicest metal dude/lady you’ve ever met?

-Elise

TOKEN EASTER POST

Hooray! As you know, today is the day that Christians celebrate worldwide as the day Jesus rose from the dead. I couldn’t care less about the holiday- no offense, just not my religion- but I do like that this is the first time since high school that I’ve been able to celebrate with family. So hence, that’s where I is and what I is doin’. I can’t pass up a chance to post on a theme though, so take these for your day and run with it. 

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D. RANDALL BLYTHE: MOVIE CRITIC

A couple weeks ago I told you about the new horror film coming out starring metal’s own Randy Blythe of LoG, The Graves. This week, Randy talked about some of his favorite horror movies of all time… and the responses may surprise you. I find that anytime I read about metal musicians and their favorite scary movies it’s all about The Evil Dead, or something old an obscure like Nosferatu. As much as I love em, sometimes you guys try to hard to be cool by picking these as your faves. We like you as you are, no need to try too hard. Anywho, as per usual, I agree and disagree with his picks:

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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 now, give blood) Check out our pal Randy around the :54 mark:

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a good horror film… and something tells me that this isn’t exactly gonna cut it. BUT, I love LoG and good or bad it’s something to do. I suppose Randy can do whatever he wants… as long as he still fronts good ol Lamb of God at the end of the day <3

-Julia

NO WHAMMIES FOR THE GRAMMYS

Oh yeah boiii, the nominations for the 2010 Grammys have been announced. Taylor Swift, blah blah blah, Beyonce, blah blah blah, Lady Gaga, ya ya ah ah ah roomba room ba ba ga ga oo la la… let’s get to the shit we care about, Category 18: Best Metal Performance. As per usual we’re dissappointed that we only get ONE category, but the nominees are pretty solid:

Best Metal Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)

Dissident Aggressor
Judas Priest
Track from: A Touch Of Evil — Live [Epic]

Set To Fail
Lamb Of God
Track from: Wrath [Epic]

Head Crusher
Megadeth
Track from: Endgame [Roadrunner Records]

Señor Peligro
Ministry
Track from: Adios… [13th Planet]

Hate Worldwide
Slayer [American / Columbia]

With a lineup like that, how can you pick a winner? Like this: LoG or Slayer FTW. My money is on Slayer, but I’d like to see Lamb of God win a Grammy (since they got beat out once before)

Readers? Who are YOU rooting for? Or is their a band that you think got snubbed?

-Julia

CURIOSITY KILLS THE KITTIE?

*Sigh* Is anyone listening to me???

Today on MetalSucks, a reader named Justin noticed that “My Plague” from Kittie’s latest release In The Black is a “rip-off” of Lamb of God’s “Laid to Rest.” Observe for yourself:

Allow me to quote myself, from a post on September 7th, 2009: …and you can’t say the the first 10 seconds of “My Plague” doesn’t remind you of a chick Lamb of God. Copycats? Nah. I think they just finally found what makes them purr.

I rest my case. As someone who considers both Lamb of God and Kittie to be amongst my favorite bands, I can say I clearly see the similarity, but it’s not exactly Vanilla Ice vs. David Bowie. What do YOU think?

-Julia

MY METAL BIRTHDAY

WHAT- a weekend. Both of us were pretty busy this weekend with all of the Halloween/birthday hubub (thanks to everyone that wished me a happy one on Twitter!), but a good time was had by all. Here’s the recap:

• Elise and I hit up the Dethklok/Mastodon/Converge/High on Fire show here in NYC Friday night. If I could describe it in one word, energetic would be it. All the bands AND the audience were cuckoo bananas and it made for quite the show. Plus, Dethklok DID play “Birthday Dethday” which made me a giggly little girl.
• Saturday (Halloween) we did a little boozin with our buddies and metal bros over in our home borough of Brooklyn.

But what’s a birthday without PRESENTS??? Not a birthday, that’s what. The beardo got me these pretty girly brutal Swarovski headphones:

And check these out! The vinyl was part of my gift from Elise (ain’t she the best? Killadelphia is my fave LoG album), and the rest was from my parents.

A very metal birthday indeed. Hope you all had as brutal of a Halloween as we did!

-Julia

SO, WAS IT GOOD FOR YOU?

Billy Milano (S.O.D./Mastery) joined my boys from Lamb of God on stage in Dallas recently and collaborated on S.O.D.’s “United Forces” Cool beans, whatever, but it sounds like Billy and Chris Adler have some kind of man crush on each other going on…

Chris on Billy: “We were honored to share the stage with a legend. Billy and S.O.D are our roots and I’ll remember this moment forever.”

Billy on LoG: “To share the stage with LAMB OF GOD was fucking amazing. It was a life changing experience. Watching the video on YouTube, I couldn’t believe the size of the stage I was on. I don’t want to say it was the highlight of my career, but it truly was a milestone. Words are escaping me while trying to describe this event, which is strange, since I never shut the fuck up.”

Well gee golly gosh. Will these guys meet up again for a second date? Check Yes, No, or Maybe and get back to me.

-Julia