Second rise of the nu metal...

 Don't you wish metal still looked this way?

Has anyone else noticed there's A LOT of nu metal bands deciding it's time to make a comeback?

Dez Fafara has lined up some Coal Chamber gigs, Korn's new album is due, Spineshank, American Head Charge, Biohazard and Puddle of Mudd are all working on shit right now. Even Wayne Static's got his Pighammer...

And have you SEEN the lineup for Australia's Soundwave festival? In J's words - what year is this?!

Are these bands all on the same label? Is some record company A&R dude jumping on trends quicker than a Roadrunner re-release? I don't know and I can't honestly be bothered to find out, but it does make you wonder. Lets see how many other lost, forgotten and somewhat shitty bands come out the woodwork during the rest of this year...

Don't worry, metal still could look this way!

Rap jacket :D

How cool is this?!

James Jirat is an Australian artist who's a bit of a hipster etc etc but whatever, his art is cool and this vest is neat and a lot of work must have gone into it.

It has and will get a reasonable amount of hate (I think someone even posted up something along the lines of "You wear this to Norway and we'll fuck you up"!) but that's obviously coming from posers who are too insecure in their own musical taste to accept how ace this is ;)

M: just sent you this, but check it http://bandungbrawlers.tumblr.com/ they're getting loads of hate for this XD

J: haha, that's pretty well done :D

i like the snoop dogg one :)

M: yeah i like it too :) i like the aaliyah one too - i like aaliyah better than i do anthrax too XD

but i think it's pretty neat :) needs more patches tho :D

J: the doom one's a bit basic tho, MF DOOM :) trying to work out the coffin one, as in what band it actually is, can only think of these ones, which it isnt, only coz the have a coffin :)

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Dead_On/12674

i like the subhumans / salt n pepper one :)

Needs more Bruce

M: RYAN ADAMS Performs Acoustic Version Of IRON MAIDEN's 'Wasted Years' (Audio)

i like this....although i dunno, i like the guitar part for the riff thingy - but the problem is wasted years has a bit of a cheesy chorus and in acoustic style it just sounds a bit gay.......i like it, but i kinda wish he'd picked a different song :O

J: i always think of 'wasted time' by skid row, i get the names confused.

it's alright, his vocals never seem to change, just kinda doesnt get anywhere :O

 

M: yeah that, seems a bit flat :O

 

J: needs some ooomph :)

 

M: needs to be sung by bruce :D

 

J: nuff said :D

 

Back to black

J: have you pre-ordered this?

M: i won't lie -

>I.C.S. VORTEX - "Don't Tread On Me"

* BORKNAGAR - "My Friend Of Misery"

am actually looking forward to hearing those, altho not sure they'll work......

the others, fuck it. altho may be interesting to see how finntroll work god that failed....

shame it's black album, i don't like most them songs :(

J: it sucks that the last two metallica ones of these metal hammer have put together have been for the two albums i dont give a shit about :/

 

M: yeah they should do thrash bands doing kill em all or something - i guess they're interesting enough projects, to see how bands work on other stuff, especially popular stuff - but i'm just not keen on the black album :/ or most of the artists that take part :/

   

J: or they should do st anger and try and make it better :)

 

M: that would actually be a cool feature :)

 

J: yeah, open it up for fans to do it :)

 

M: that would be really cool :D come on guys - lets re-record it and show them what people can actually do who have spirit and passion for the music :D

 

J: as if they'll admit to it being a duff album tho :)

 

M: yeah metallica won't, but everyone else does :) the music press should grow some balls and organise this :D

 

J: yeah ;O

 

I can't see, I can't see....

J: who is who in that pic? XD

M: wow they are starting to merge a bit :O

Just like the old days

J: EXODUS Guitarist Wanted To 'Reconnect' With METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT

M: 1. first comment :)

2. gary's wearing some lame big 4 giant plectrum lanyard - you ain't in the big 4 gary! ;D

 

J: yeah, lame headline XD
gary was, for a bit :D

 

M: not anymore tho :) he's with exodus, allowing poor decisions to be made D: 

 

J: the first being when they let paul baloff go :)

 

M: there was bad feeling involved tho :O 

 

J: i dont see anything wrong with being drunk, forgetting words and inciting violence on non-metal believers :D

 

M: nah not for a fucking thrash band :) gary must have enjoyed his time with slayer, srs business these days ;) 

 

J: that was it, i thought he was in anthrax, but that was andreas :D
would have been awesome if james broke his wrist again, make it PROPER like the old days ;)

 

M: yeah i got confused with them two doing other stuff :)

>would have been awesome if james broke his wrist again, make it PROPER like the old days ;)

bet he don't do any skateboarding now though XD

 

J: i forgot jeff was "ill" (recovering from drug use) ;D
i cant even imagine james skateboarding then, let alone now :) i'm sure it was something to do with them pushead design skateboards, at least i hope it was :)

 

M: i always think of it as that :) 

 

J: trying 'em out for jokes, break wrist XD

 

M: trying them out to advertise for them ;) making money ;) 

 

 J:  

 

 

M: weird thing with james is, even when he was young, he still kinda looked old :) 

 

J: it's them combats he has on doing that ;D

 

 

bathory );

 J: dunno if it's one of the albums you like, but );

 Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark

M: fuck yeah ); its the one i have the t-shirt of <3

J: oh :)
yeah, wicked album :)
i cant remember the one we played round here you had that time, i liked it, but unsure what one it was:)

 M: hammerheart i think :) 

J: i'll check it out :O

M: bathory is fucking cool - one of the few bands (or artists, i suppose) that live up to the hype! 

Quorthon also fits right into the hot-when-he-was-young category ♥ 

Most bands that people bang on and on about just never live up to your expectations. You just can't see why everyone thinks they're SO FUCKING AWESOME, MAN!!! Whilst you can appreciate that they're not bad, you still can't really grasp how someone could think they're the best thing ever. It's happened a few times for me and I'm sure it's happened to everyone at some point.

Bathory however, is a different kettle of fish. People don't even bang on about the records so much - it's more that that fucking goat is plastered from wall to wall of the internet and maybe it doesn't bother anyone else, but I have to say it puts me right off. Forget about that though, because Bathory's legacy should be so much more than that goat. 

Bonded by blood?

M: MÖTLEY CRÜE Bassist: 'I Would Love To Make An Extremely Heavy, Non-Commercial Record'

XD

J: not with t-bone tho, he dont do albums :)

M: tired of music, just wants to dj :) 

tbh i don't think nikki has it in him - he's not a musician and never was - yeah he's better than when he started out but musicially he ain't got anything in him

J: nikki's a good songwriter, maybe he should just write songs and manufacture sleaze bands like stevie does :)

M: i guess in the sleaze/glam world he does fine - tbh he should just stick with what he's doing - being a whiny bitch and letting everyone copy his style :)

J: yeah, he's doing fine as is :) it's not like motley dont make money :)

M: or as i said, everyone seems to want to look like him now, he should just be pleased he ain't vince, mick or tommy XD nikki has a decent life and career, he should count his blessings :)

J: that pic of him on that site i sent you looks like dave from morbid angel so much :)

M: they're becoming the same person, i swear :O

J: they so are XD

...bring a tear to your eye :(

I was away at Bloodstock over the weekend, celebrating my birthday, which was on the 12th. It was pretty mad to get a text from J that morning saying that Jani Lane had died :(

I won't say I didn't love taking the piss out of Jani and Warrant, because it was awesome - I love taking the piss out of stuff, but I only ever do it out of love, not spite. I'm really fucking sad he died - Jani, you were only 47. Gone too soon.

p.s. It's also pretty sad that this and the last post were about awesome people dying. I'll work on that (well, I can't stop people dying, but I can at least talk about other stuff).

Ha ha heart attack

On J's birthday, the last thing I expected was to get a text saying Seth Putnam had died. I had friends staying at my place at the time and not one of them even knew who Seth fucking was, so it sucked pretty bad. So I called my mum and she pointed out that altho he died kinda young, at least when he was alive he spent most his time doing whatever he pleased, which is really all any of us want to do in the end.

Seth, the world probably won't miss you (save one or two of your friends), but you really didn't give a shit and for that, you'll always be one of my heroes.

I once emailed Seth to ask him if he'd do a banner for this website - the title of which was inspired by him. He said he'd do it for cash...which I never got round to sending him. It'll always be one of my biggest regrets.