GunShyAssassin Presents Metal’s Top 25 Album Openers: #10 to #6

Posted by Jos. von Wienerhaus on May 16, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Rad

We’ve endeavored to assemble the most comprehensive, least-fuck-with-able list of metal’s 25 best album openers — a series that runs all week, and continues today with numbers 10 to 6. 10. Mercyful Fate, “A Dangerous Meeting” The opening track off of the landmark Don’t Break The Oath features a lone guitar with the second sliding Read More

Westboro Baptist Church Announce Plans For Hanneman Funeral Protest

Posted by Chris Harris on May 4, 2013 in Featured, News

Well, I guess I’m going to jail, kids. I am going to have to go against my own stance on Kickstarter campaigns to raise money for my legal defense. Those Kansas-based kooks in the Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing outside the funeral of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, and announced plans to sing during the Read More

Ozzy Osbourne Says Bill Ward’s Lost His Touch

Posted by Chris Harris on May 3, 2013 in News

I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to listen to any of the new Black Sabbath songs, captured live during the band’s Australian tour in fan-filmed footage, but I have. Ozzy literally sounds like he’s stroking out. Honestly. His words are slurred, his pipes, strained…he sounds like utter shit. But Ozzy Osbourne must not Read More

Best Buy Edition Of New Black Sabbath To Feature Bonus Track

Posted by Chris Harris on May 1, 2013 in New Records, News

I guess this is Best Buy’s way of getting us to purchase the new Black Sabbath record from one of their stores. Maybe when we’re inside the store getting 13 on June 11, we’ll see some of the amazing deals on TVs and music systems. Perhaps we’ll walk around the store, and gaze at the Read More

Sharon Discusses Ozzy Osbourne’s Relapse

Posted by Chris Harris on April 24, 2013 in News, Shamelessness

Sharon Osbourne has broken her silence over husband Ozzy Osbourne’s recent relapses. Recently, the Ozzman admitteth that, for the last year or so, he’s been back on the sauce and even using drugs. The confession came amid rampant rumors the first couple of metal was about to go the way of the Dodo. Or the Read More

Listen To A New Black Sabbath Song — Right Now!

Posted by Chris Harris on April 18, 2013 in Featured, News, Song Debuts

It’s streaming at the end of this post and it sure sounds like Black Sabbath. It is called “God Is Dead?” and comes from the new Black Sabbath disc, 13. The track will be available digitally starting tomorrow. Meanwhile, 13 is due out June 11 on Vertigo/Republic. I can see why the following song drove Read More

Ozzy Osbourne Admits Drug, Booze Relapses

Posted by Chris Harris on April 16, 2013 in Featured, News

Well, this is fucked up. Ozzy Osbourne has admitted that for the last year-and-a-half, he’s been using alcohol and drugs. He also denies he and Sharon are splitting. “For the last year and a half, I have been drinking and taking drugs. I was in a very dark place and was an asshole to the Read More

Black Sabbath Releasing New Single This Week

Posted by Chris Harris on April 15, 2013 in New Records, News

On Friday, I’ll be doing something I’ve wanted to do for eons. After 15 years, I will be going back to my college town for alumni weekend. That means on Friday night, from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m., I will be hosting a radio show on my old college station’s airwaves. I am really looking Read More

Ozzy, Sharon Osbourne Deny Split Rumors

Posted by Chris Harris on April 14, 2013 in Huh?, News

Imagine Ozzy Osbourne playing the field as a fucking 60-something grandfather? Out there on the single’s scene, mixing it up with girls younger than Kelly who, like Sharon, are interested in dude’s earning potential. That’d be wild, man. But it won’t happen, if Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are, indeed, telling the truth. They claim rumors Read More

Black Sabbath Album “Mindblowing,” Says Ozzy

Posted by Chris Harris on April 5, 2013 in New Records, News

For someone who has done as many drugs as Ozzy Osbourne has, that’s saying a ton. Ozzy knows mindblowing — you don’t. You haven’t had your mind blown until you’ve swallowed ten dozen roofies while mainlining heroin and snorting coke off a stripper’s ass, OK? In a new radio interview, Ozzy says that Black Sabbath’s Read More