12 Metal Days Of Christmas (day 9)

We are down to single digits until Christmas -9 more days to go. Today's song is both ridiculous and amazing all in one Metal God package.  Enjoy Rob Halford's "Oh Come All Ye Faithful":

Day 9: Rob Halford - "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"

Past videos/songs after the jump....

Randy Blythe is "Disgusted"!

Lamb of God's friendly frontman Randy Blythe recently released a statement declaring that he has "never been more disgusted with an audience" in his life more than he was this past Friday (the 14th) when his band performed in Medford, Oregon.
Apparently what happened was that Randy asked the crowd to give 60 seconds of silence during their set to pay respects to all victims of the Connecticut school shooting.  I am sure you can get what happened next- the crowd failed to comply.   Well, actually it was only a small handful of people who couldn't seem to shut up, but it was enough to piss Randy off.  He responded by hitting up Instagram  and writing the following message:    (after the jump...)

12 Metal Days of Christmas (day 10)

Only 10 more days till Christmas.   It's a Sunday so get all your last minute online shopping done today so it will be sent first thing Monday morning.  Don't forget to buy me this amazing Slayer Christmas sweater.

Today I present to you one of my personal favorites  The Darkness's "Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)".    (ps. if you dont know what a 'bells end' is, some humor may be lost on you.)

Past videos/songs after the jump....

Hired Guns N' Roses show postponed, and its not Axls fault!

Normally I wouldn't bother posting about a postponed/canceled/failed Guns N Roses concert, since it's nothing new.  BUT, in this case the reason for the postponement of GNR's show in Jakarta, Indonesia isn't Axl's fault!  And, yes, that is shocking news.  I'll give the details on that in a second, but first I need to share this wonderful find on facebook I got:

That's a photo of Axl's boarding ticket receipt.  PLEASE NOTE THAT HE IS CHECKING 18 BAGS!!!   I know that you need a shit ton of stuff while touring, but that all would get checked separately by the roadies with the tour gear.  SO, that means this is all Axl's personal items.   Pretty different from his days entering the jungle:

Back to his show in show in Jakarta, Indonesia after the jump...

England Embraces Heavy Metal

First England reveals that 'Heavy Metal' is a more commonly practiced religion than Scientology, Druidism and Satanism and now tonight it's been announced that Grimsby Minster in North Yorkshire, UK will host a 'heavy metal Christmas' carol service to raise money for homeless charities.   I think it's time to move to the UK.   Either that or us Yanks need to raise the metal volume to 11.  I am seriously impressed with the tea-drinking headbangers across the pond right now.

The "Very Heavy Christmas Carol Service" was first held last year and proved to be a success with more than 300 metalheads in attendance.   This year they are hoping for even more.  The service isn't just metal Christmas carols, either.  There will also be specially written "Punk Poetry" lessons for those who prefer Black Flag over Black Sabbath.

Event organizer Simon Cross talked about 2011's 'Very Heavy Christmas':

"After the event we were inundated with requests for another heavy metal carol service.  People love to get together for carols at Christmas, and it seems they particularly love something like this, where we take the traditional format and give it a bit of an imaginative twist.
We had all kinds of people along, teenagers, pensioners, families, bikers, punks, and vicars.  We're looking forward to even more this year, and to raising lots of cash for the homeless at Christmas time."

This sounds amazing.  I think it's time NY held something similar    The service will also feature a Christmas message read by local vicar (AND HEAVY METAL FAN) Reverend George Smith.

My Declaration of love to Slayer Bob.

This is Slayer Bob, and I love him.

Slayer Bob is a wonderful man.   Slayer Bob created the phenomena below.   Prepare to be in awe.

I really love whats happening around 3:08.  For more information about this beautiful man and his creations visit Slayer Bobs official YouTube account for all his amazing light shows.

Steel Panther beat me to it!

I know metal-folk have been doing Christmas shit forever, but I thought I had something special going on with my 12 Metal Days Of Christmas thingy.   Well, Metal Shop Metal Skool Steel Panther beat me to it by one day!!  While I began my 12 Days last night, they posted theirs yesterday morning.  And yes, it is hilarious and better than my idea.  Damn them.

12 Metal Days of Christmas (day 11)

11 days till Christmas, and today's present is "No Presents For Christmas".  But trust me, it is a present.  It's just a song called "No Presents".  But the song itself is a present.  A present called "No Presents."  And it's from King Diamond.  And it's beautiful and will bring a tear of Christmas love to your eye.

Yesterdays song after the jump...

12 Metal Days of Christmas (day 12)

Beginning as of this second, I present to you the 12 Metal Days of Christmas. In 12 days it will be Christmas, and each day you will get a lovely Christmas song to get you just a bit more into the holiday spirit. By Christmas day you'll have a full dozen songs to rock out to, which is roughly the length of your average album. So, I am basically giving you all a full length album. You're welcome.

Today I present Day 12: Twisted Sister's "Heavy Metal Christmas"

For those who still care about Vince Neil

Some news on Vince Neil has been popping up.  You probably know him as the man who just looooooves his booze, cars, and women.  Well, that is EXACTLY what the latest news on him is about.  (Oh, and you may also know him as the singer of Motley Crue, but of course there is no news there.)

Anyway, Mr. Neil has announced the opening of his very own saloon(booze, check) in Las Vegas.  Vince signed a deal with the Hooters(women, check) Casino Hotel to open a wing inside simply called the "Wildside Saloon", which will be a "rock and roll sports bar".   Vince tweets “Hooters, Rock and Sports! What more do you want!!!!”  

Well, I can think of one thing his ex-wife, Sharise Neil, wants.   In a recent interview Sharise - who currently stars in Fuse's "Ex-Wives Of Rock", talks about how Vince blew a shit ton of his money up his nose at automobile auctions (cars, check).   Sharise says that Vince "made millions of dollars but he spent it as fast as he got it. I won’t tell you the exact amount of the settlement [from their divorce] because that would be a teeny bit tacky, but it was less than $100,000."

Girl needs to get some money from this new saloon, stat.  Come on, less than $100,000???   She must have been out of her damn mind to settle for that after years and years of marriage. Gene Simmons would praise Vince as genius for being able to pull that off.

But where could all that money have gone? Sharise explains that "He had 12 cars. He would go to a car auction to buy a car, and he would come home with two. With his driving record, it cost $8,000 to insure each car, and we had 12. I would tell him to please not buy any more cars. But instead he installed an hydrolic lift in the garage to stack them on top of each other.  I have pictures of it."   And I would love to see them.

Awful.

I joke about a lot on here, but murder isn't one of them, and especially not murder of innocent adults AND little children.   By now everyone knows about the horrible shooting that occurred this morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut (about 65 miles northeast of New York City).  All the details haven't been sorted out yet, but it has been released that 28 people - including 20 children - are dead as the result of the shooting spree that took place this morning.  Unbelievably the shooter shot over 100 rounds before he was shot down himself by police.   This is so horrible.  I feel terribly for all those involved.  It's impossible to imagine what can make someone do something so awful.

The metal community has been reaching out.  Check out what they say after the jump.

New music from Ghost

I love Ghost.   In fact, Ghost are scheduled to be next week's Band Of The Week.   But as for now though, I gotta let you in on a listen of their newest song "Secular Haze" (amazing name).   The song was just released, and it would be cruel to not share this till next week, so here you go.  Amazing, eh?!

In other Ghostly news, just yesterday these bad boys announced that they were in the studio finishing up their second studio album.   No set date of release has been given, but we do have a few facts:
-The album is due out in 2013 (thats a shocker)
-It will be released on Loma Vista Recordings (who dat?)
-Loma Vista is a new label (oh, ok)
-Loma Vista was founded by Tom Whalley (who dat?)
-Tom Whalley is from the Universal Music Group (oh, ok)
-The album will be produced by Nick Raskulinecz ( who worked with Foo Fighters, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, Stone Sour, Trivium, Duff McKagan, Danzig, The Exies, Velvet Revolver, Rush, Shadows.........)

Enjoy!

Metal is my religion and Judas is my Priest...

....and apparently I am not the only one that feels that way.   According to a new poll in the UK, the number of fundamentalists is on the decline, but the a number of us fun demented metalists is on the incline.   Well done, fellow headbangers!  I am very proud.

The Guardian states that 6,242 people listed "heavy metal" as their religion when asked in the 2011 census.  The number was only released this week, so it's coming to us a bit late, but the news still brings a tear to my bloodshot eye.   What's even more beautiful is that this number is a few thousand higher than those who identified as "Scientologists".   I feel like the mother of a spelling bee champion.

In remembrance of HIDE

Whether you know him as 'HIDE' (his X Japan years), 'hide' (his solo years), or don't know him at all- today seems like the right day to remember this Japanese guitar playin' and songwriting genius.  Born 49 years ago today, Hide only made it to 33 after committing suicide post a night out drinking.  But Hide shouldn't be remembered for the booze/drugs - although he certainly had his issues - just watch the live footage below and you will see how truly awesome this guy was.  Incredible stage performance.   Hell, I can't even understand a word he's saying (minus the small bits of English), and I can tell the lyrics are brilliant.  And that's why I have no choice but to make him this weeks Band Of The Week.
  

Hide is most closely associated with his 10 year career as lead guitarist in X Japan, but his fame went much greater.  His solo career was massive, and his following was beyond cult-like.  The video below shows him with X (amazing solo/guitar-work here).  Don't miss Yoshiki kickin' ass behind the kit, too.

RIP, HIDE.

Ted Nugent's birthday wishes- the poor cant vote.

Uncle Ted turns the big 65 today.   I bet he's psyched to buy shotguns and steak with a senior discount.   But seriously what the Nuge wants is to not just simply poke, but to slaughter Social Security, Medicare and Medicare.

In the birthday mans words himself: "The three sacred entitlement cows in the room that no politician wants to poke are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.  A blinding statement of the obvious is that we are never going to get our financial house in order until these sacred entitlement cows are not only poked, but slaughtered."

Uncle Ted also went on to argue that instead of raising taxes on only the wealthiest Americans ::cough:: Barack Obama ::cough:: Congress should hike taxes on everybody... especially the poorest 50 percent of Americans.  Afterall, they are just getting an "insane free ride."   And, heck, if that doesn't work we can always suspend the right to vote of any American who is on welfare.  "Once they get off welfare and are self-sustaining, they get their right to vote restored."   Hmmm, interesting thoughts, Ted.   Gotta love him, but what are your thoughts?