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Iron Maiden Beer’s Launch Stalled In Sweden

Posted by Chris Harris on May 11, 2013 in News

I’d be bummed if I were Swedish, knowing I could be drinking Iron Maiden beer, if not for some silly artwork snafu.

Reports claim the sale of Iron Maiden’s Trooper brew is on hold in Sweden because the country’s state-run liquor store monopoly, Systembolaget, raised legal concerns over the skull and crossbones imagery on the label.

“There has been a discussion about the label. The alcohol law stipulates how it can look. We therefore don’t yet know when it can be launched,” Therese Elmgren at Systembolaget told reporters.

Of course, the label on the 4.8 percent-strength Trooper’s bottles is taken from Iron Maiden’s single The Trooper, released in 1983.

This is not the first time Systembolaget have been dicks.
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Dudes Detained For Being Drunk Assholes, Demanding Plane Blast Tool

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in Huh?, News

Media reports are claiming two drunken assholes made a flight from Auckland to Christchurch nearly unbearable today.

Two dudes, described as “heavy metal fans,” brought a boom box on Jetstar flight JQ249 and threatened to hurt passengers.

The men yelled at staff to change the music on the flight to the relaxing sounds of Tool, and when that request was rebuffed, they proceeded to blast their own music on a portable CD player.

The two drunks were met by police at Christchurch Airport, but not before one of them tried to change his clothes to hide from the fuzz.
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Under The Radar — Defeated Sanity And Primitive Man

Posted by Jos. von Wienerhaus on May 10, 2013 in Featured, Reviews, Under The Radar

This week’s Under The Radar features German brutal death metallers Defeated Sanity and the skull-caving sludge of Primitive Man. Both bands are unbelievably heavy and in two very different ways. Strap on your Huggies as we take a look into Passages Into Deformity and Scorn.

Defeated Sanity, Passages Into Deformity

These guys have released the death metal album of the year. What Devourment and Suffocation severely lacked in their albums are on full display here. We are treated to nine tracks of slamming, guttural, downtuned brutality. “Initiation” is an intro of sorts, being just a little over a minute and serving as a short taste of what’s to come.

There are no shortage of pit riffs, making this album a dance party. “Lusting For Transcendence” is my favorite track off Passages featuring a slamming breakdown at the 1:30 mark that can register a solid 7.0 on the Richter Scale.
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Hypocrisy’s First Two LPs Being Reissued As Box Set

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in New Records, News

You read that headline correctly, people.

Swedish death metal vets Hypocrisy will have their classic albums Penetralia and Osculum Obscenum re-released as a limited 2-CD box set on July 12.

The set is coming from the fine folks at Nuclear Blast Records.

The LPs were both remastered and “enriched with extensive bonus material,” says a press release.
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In This Moment Announce Plans For First Live DVD

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in News

Oh yeah, buddy. You know you want a DVD featuring the lusty Maria Brink.

Just maybe not the kind In This Moment plan on releasing.

The Southern Californian hard rockers are gearing up to record their first ever DVD which is being shot at their upcoming May 21 tour stop in Madison, Wisconsin.

The band’s gig at the Orpheum Theater will be taped, and “the band has a bunch of surprises in store for this show including rarely played songs from their catalog and an all-new stage show created specifically for this concert.”

The concert is being directed by Brad Golowin who is known for his work with Miss May I and 10 Years to name a few.
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Video: As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis Arraigned In Murder-For-Hire Plot

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in News, Video

I am enjoying this way too much.

Why, you ask? It isn’t me.

Also, Tim Lambesis has provided the metal world with an amazing crime story here — one that will likely go down in metal lore as one of the most cowardly acts ever committed by a man of such size and stature.

I always say if you want someone dead, kill ‘em yourself. Anything worth doing is worth doing on your own, I feel.

Lambesis is accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his estranged wife. Prosecutors claim he felt out some of his gym buddies, asking if they knew someone capable of such a thing. Then, the cheap ass gave some cop he thought was a thug $1,000, pictures, gate codes, and convenient times to do the deed — times that would coincide with when he was with his kids, providing him an alibi.

Why is this story great? Because of its hypocritical nature, and because this is probably one of the last people any of us would ever have expected would pull this kind of shit.

Then again, he’s a muscle-bound, weight lifting-obsessed pinhead who looks like an older Julie Kavner. So, it’s not like he’s the smartest dude around.
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Video: Neige Éternelle Play New Song In Québec City

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in News, Rad, Video

You know, I happen to dig Neige Éternelle, a black metal outfit from Québec whose self-titled debut is in stores now through Sepulchral Productions.

At the end of this post, hear a new song from the band called “Le Reigne des Loups,” which a reader, David, tells us means “The Reign of Wolves.”

The band was in Québec City a while back with Absu when the following footage was shot.

It’s a slow news day, and Neige Éternelle are awesome, so I figured I’d post this footage.
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College Offering Degree In Heavy Metal

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in Featured, News

It’s true, people.

Not sure what you’d do with it, seeing as the history of metal is well-documented and overanalyzed already. If I see one more book released about the history of metal, I may just scream.

The BBC claims New College Nottingham (NCN) — one of the largest further education colleges in the U.K. — is offering a two-year degree in heavy metal music.

Which will get you a nice manager’s job at the local record store. Maybe.

The course was developed over a seven-month period by Liam Maloy, a lecturer in music performance at NCN, who describes the class as “academically rigorous.”

I bet.

“In the past, heavy metal has not been taken seriously and is seen as lacking academic credibility when compared with other genres such as jazz and classical music,” says Maloy. “But that’s just a cultural construction.”
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Lady On Piano Covers Cannibal Corpse

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in Huh?, Video

Yup. This is one of those posts.

Somewhere in Philadelphia, there’s a singer named Sarah Kane.

She must be a closet Cannibal Corpse fan.

At the end of this post, you will find video of Kane playing a piano-based cover version of “Carnivorous Swarm.”

The clip was directed by Brad Podray and was filmed at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia.

Kane is a full-time musician in the city of Philadelphia where she sings for EBE entertainment agency.

She is also a regular entertainer and piano player at Jolly’s piano bar in center city Philadelphia, according to Blabbermouth.
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Top 25 Album Openers…And Contest

Posted by Jos. von Wienerhaus on May 10, 2013 in Contests, Exclusive, Featured, Rad

Next week, we will unveil our list of metal’s Top 25 Album Openers over the course of all five days. Initially, this started out as just a Top 10 list, but there are far too many killer opening songs to confine the list to a mere ten, so we got ambitious.

There are a couple rules to this list:

Intro tracks count as an album opener! Those 30-second intros bands sometimes use do count. We’re talking about stuff to kick off the album from the moment you hit play. Sorry, King Diamond’s “Arrival.”

One song per band. Some bands have a knack for writing incredible songs to start an album, and one band in particular would have wound up dominating the 1-10 spots.

That’s it.

Now for the contest!
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