Christianity ‘could die out within a century’.
Amen! Thank God for that!
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
Promotional activity was rampant during the 1979 era of KISS. Some of the shots below ended up in the Dynasty Tourbook of 1979. The band filmed the promo video for ‘Sure Know Something’ on the same day most of these photos were taken. Although musically the band had come back quite a different beast after the release of the solo albums a year before, it was still an exciting time and proved to be KISS’ most popular eras outside of the United States.
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Motley Crue set to tour, but frustrated by film.
Motley Crue are back with a new album, a song that’s a hit with gamers and an upcoming festival tour, but the bad-boy rockers are frustrated that a long-awaited movie about their lives is going nowhere.
The time has come… new Slipknot album details are beginning to emerge. There’s a title, release date and first single details slowing permeating the ‘net. After many rumours, it has been officially announced that Slipknot will name their brand new album ‘All Hope Is Gone’. The album is scheduled to be released on August 25th (the day after their UK Reading Festival performance) and will be preceded by a single called ‘Psychosocial’ which will be available to download from next Monday, June 30th.
According to Corey Taylor: “Every album we have made is a statement about that space in time. I think this era is the most mature, most beautiful and the most powerful. We have made an album that will show the road behind, the road ahead, and where we are as men. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever made. And I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.”
The band’s official website has been a hive of activity of late. The band has been posting these eerie photos of themselves in very, very ‘Easter Island’ type of masks. No idea if we are in for such a radical image change but I guess, all will be revealed in due course.
If the new album can be half as good as 2004’s ‘Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses’ then we are in for a real treat as personally, I found that to be an amazing album. But as far as the leaked track goes… here’s hoping the rest will be somewhat better hey?
File this under the ‘I Want’ department: “…Although the punk rock career of the Ramones was short lived, the Ramones were some of the most influential rockers on the planet. Now you can bring home a little punk rocker of your own with this amazing Joey Ramone action figure. The NECA Joey Ramone action figure features the Ramones singer in all his punk rock glory. The Joey Ramone action figure comes complete with figural base for display and microphone stand for added rock star credibility. This rock music action figure stands approximately 7 inches tall and is part of the NECA Ramones action figures series.
World’s Smallest Hummer.
A mechanic was suffering so much from rising fuel prices that he built himself the world’s smallest Hummer lookalike which does 60 miles to the gallon.
Well I haven’t heard this one myself as I haven’t been too keen on the Crue since their glory days in ‘Shout At The Devil’ - but if you wanna check out the new album, here’s a link where you can hear the entire thing streaming. Anyway. Weren’t these guys on the verge of splitting up again with Tommy Lee threatening to quit? Who friggn knows…
Reznor Plans ‘Year Zero’ TV Series.
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor is working on a cable TV series based on his 2007 dystopian concept album Year Zero, according to a lengthy profile of Reznor in the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
Ok let me state from the outset, I’ve been a Judas Priest fan since the late 70’s. In fact, ‘British Steel’ was probably the first (true) Metal album I ever purchased. An absolute classic album that has stood the test of time and is still every bit amazing now, as it was then. Having said that, the band’s latest release, a double-album concept based on Michel de Nostredame (whose name is often ‘Latinized’ as Nostradamus) - is nothing but a bloated, pretentious borefest of the highest order.
I’ve really struggled to get into this opus and as much as I friggn love my Metal tinged with old-school stylings - there is just nothing to get excited about with this release. It’s so embarrassingly cheesy and reflects a band becoming a parody of itself in the highest order. This is Spinal Tap. Make no mistake about it, this is Spinal Tap come to life but at least the Tap have the ability to keep one awake. This album does not.
Seriously, if you can stomach grown men repeatedly screeching “I AM NOSTRADAMUS” ad nauseam, then you’re a better man than I!
So freaking sad. Regardless, I will be at the band’s forthcoming Australian shows. Fingers crossed we don’t get too many tracks from this pompous, bloated, overblown, grandiose and ridiculous release.
The Gospel of Filth is the boldest, most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the realms of darkness and devilry ever published. Taking in every significant milestone and major landmark, this lavishly illustrated volume will prove to be the definitive guide to the dark side for decades to come. From ancient formulae for conjuring the goddesses of hell, to the latest research on the psychopathology of serial murder, no tombstone remains unturned in this wide-ranging and witty dissection of the uncanny and unholy, of the esoteric and erotic. Music forms The Gospel’s entry point, but every medium, from movies and literature, to comics and computer games is considered, while the authorities consulted range from Oxford academics to metal musicians as well known for their criminal records as musical ones.
The principal consultant is Dani Filth, who rides shotgun with author Gavin Baddeley throughout the book, providing insight and impish irreverence at every turn. Dani’s band Cradle of Filth are one of England’s most successful and controversial musical exports of the past decade, loved and loathed in equal measure, the singer bringing that same provocative edge to this, his first literary effort. Emerging from the violent cauldron of chaos that propelled the black metal scene to the forefront of the extreme music scene in the early-’90s, Cradle of Filth have since transcended such subcultural boundaries, embracing the likes of Decadent art and Gothic literature to create an inimitable, sensuously sinister style all of their own.
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Cursed: The on-set terrors of ill-fated movies.
The filming of Quantum of Solace, the latest James Bond adventure, has seen so many on-set accidents that the cast and crew are beginning to wonder whether the movie is cursed.
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