Highshcool Tributes: teach’em all album: Metallica tribute
August 31, 2007
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Highshcool Tributes: teach’em all album: Metallica tribute
by patrice on august 28, 2007
This time we’re going METAL with one of the most recognizable bands in the history of metal: METALLICA. Stay tuned for more news in the very near future. In the meantime, here’s the set list:
Seek & Destroy
Creeping Death
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Master of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Eye Of The Beholder
Enter Sandman
Sad But True
I Disappear
Am I Evil (originaly performed by Diamond Head)
http://www.highschooltributes.com/
Sales data for latest albums of As I Lay Dying, Aiden, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
August 31, 2007
Sales data for latest albums of As I Lay Dying, Aiden, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. This is according Neilson Soundscan.
AS I LAY DYING - “An Ocean Between Us”: 39,500 (#8)
AIDEN – “Conviction”: 12,500 (#55)
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA – “Plagues”: 11,500 (#58)
SIXX A.M. - “The Heroin Diaries: The Soundtrack”: 10,500 (#62)
“Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”: 8,500 (#82)
THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD – “Malice”: 3,500
RATT - “Tell The World: The Very Best Of Ratt”: 3,500
ADEMA - “Kill the Headlights”: 2,000
Watch a news music video report as 20 injured at Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution
August 31, 2007
Watch a news report as 20 injured at Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution
http://www.news10now.com/shared/video/video_pop.asp?destlist=68930
Interview: Ozzfest Tour Says: Free the Music According to Lordi
August 31, 2007
Interview: Ozzfest Tour Says: Free the Music According to Lordi
It was sometime around last February that Sharon Osbourne, wife of grandfatherly rocker Ozzy Osbourne, made the shocking announcement. Ozzfest, the 11-year-old mainstay of the world of heavy-metal concerts, would be free this year. All summer long. Questions of how could they pull this off and what it meant for the future of rock ‘n’ roll swarmed around through the Internet for months, with detractors claiming that a free Ozzfest could never work. Or, from the ever-present cynics among us, that the intentions behind a free Ozzfest weren’t as “pluralistic” as first advertised.
Dubbed as a way to “free the music,” Sharon Osbourne, chief organizer of Ozzfest, said concert revelers should be able to enjoy heavy metal without having to pay. So for the duration of the tour, select sponsors are covering expenses. It’s a concept that’s already been contested by organizers of this summer’s other behemoth festival, the Vans Warped Tour, whose main organizer, Kevin Lyman, recently said that a free Ozzfest was merely a ploy to disguise declining ticket sales over the past few years.
There’s truth in both of those statements.
Regardless of the Osbourne clan’s truest intentions, this week Ozzfest rolls into West Palm Beach for its final destination of the tour, and local metal fans can get their first glimpse of what a free touring rock festival is supposed to look like. I personally think Ozzfest is in a unique position to set what could, and should, become a trend in an industry that’s on the skids.
Of course, Ozzfest won’t be showing up here without its share of black eyes and bruises.
The summer tour has been nagged by bad publicity and snafus. Distribution of free tickets was initially a mess, as servers were jammed on websites like Live Nation and Ozzfest.com for days and fans kicked up a storm of complaints. Once scalpers got involved, the free ticket issues got worse. Although the concert is free, a quick search on eBay.com shows that local scalpers are selling tickets for anywhere from $5.59 for lawn seats to $300 for “prime seating” — whatever that means. Anyone who’s ever been to a metal concert knows the closer you get to the stage, the more likely you are to get elbowed in the face. For $300, that seems rather foolish. Still, these tickets do exist, and that’s the least of Ozzfest’s bad publicity woes.
Last week, two fans died at an Ozzfest stop in New Jersey of cardiac arrest due, according to authorities, to drug-related behavior. There have also been hundreds of arrests at Ozzfest venues across the country. A hilarious dustup between Sharon Osbourne and Josh Homme, lead singer of Queens of the Stone Age, seemed to cap it all. Homme scoffed at the real intentions behind “Freefest,” as some people are calling it, claiming it was designed to line the pockets of Ozzy and no one else. Because there are no ticket sales this summer, none of the bands performing on Ozzfest are being paid, drawing the ire of a number of rock bands. Sharon’s retort to Homme was classic: “I hope he gets syphilis and dies,” she told Blender.com. “I hope his dick fuckin’ falls off so his mother can eat it.”
That’s Ozzfest and the rock world at its ludicrous best.
What all of the big-name rockers and festival organizers seem to overlook is the desires of the fans. This isn’t about helping Ozzy’s band sell CDs — they sell enough — or about helping key sponsors like Jägermeister and Monster Energy drink get more exposure — they have plenty. Ozzfest, in a free format or not, is supposed to be about the music and the fans.
According to Finnish goth rocker Mr. Lordi of the band Lordi, the answer is basic. “We are not getting paid,” he said via phone recently. “But there’s no income. How can you pay the bands if there aren’t any ticket sales? It’s pretty simple. This is really a promotion for us. You have to take it like starting from scratch. But we’re really lucky bastards. It’s not like starting from scratch; we play in front of thousands of people every other day, so it’s like starting from third or fourth.”
I asked him if he thought more tours should be free. “I think that question should be targeted to the audience, to the people who are showing up all summer, not me,” he said. “Nobody wants to pay for it, if you give them a choice. And maybe there are people who don’t have money for it and now they get a chance to see a great show. But on our side, there’s nobody getting paid. It’s like charity work in a way. We’re getting something back from it by way of promotion. And the fans are getting the bands that they like for free. Nobody loses.”
Could it be that this is what we need on a larger scale? Should genres like hip-hop and the blues do the same thing?
It seems inconceivable for a slew of welterweight and heavyweight rap champs to hit the road all summer without making a steady paycheck. It goes against the ethos of everything that is hip-hop, as well as pop music today in general. That’s why the bands performing in Ozzfest should be applauded. It’s undeniable that these bands are leaving loads of flesh and sweat on each stage that they play, all in pursuit of the same dream most of them have had since they were teenagers: to become proper rock stars and play in front of millions of screaming fans.
Ultimately, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne aren’t the issue here. If “Freefest” gets die-hard rockers in front of die-hard fans, then we’re all richer from it at the end of the day. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2007-08-30/music/ozzfest-says-free-the-music/
Interview: Slayer bringing metal to the masses
August 31, 2007
As if winning one of those last February was going to swell the shaved and tattooed head of the longtime Slayer guitarist at all. His and his band mates’ attitude toward the pop-music establishment has remained the same since the thrash-metal act’s genesis in 1981.
“It never really blew my mind,” Mr. King said recently from a tour stop in Minneapolis. “It’s odd, especially considering what I think of the music industry in general. It doesn’t mean nearly as much as if some metal mag had given us a major award. It’s cool and all, but not all that important.”
But Slayer continues to receive props from the mainstream, despite its role as one of music’s most brazen mainstream antagonists. Last year’s successful Unholy Alliance Tour featured three of the five acts nominated for the Best Metal Performance Grammy that Slayer won (Lamb of God and Mastodon were the others).
Slayer guitarist Kerry King
The group’s longtime producer, Rick Rubin, now heads Columbia Records and won his own Producer of the Year Grammy, partially for his involvement on Slayer’s 2006 disc, Christ Illusion. When released, the CD debuted at No. 5 on Billboard’s album chart; by far Slayer’s highest-ever position. A month ago, Mr. Rubin allowed American Recordings, a division of Columbia, to reissue it with DVD content and an extra track, “The Final Six,” which is about the destruction of the world.
But Mr. King is convinced that nothing trendy, calculated or resurgent triggered the triumph. Not Mr. Rubin’s ascendance. Not Slayer’s spike in popularity or respect as one of hardcore metal’s definitive acts. Not the politically and socially electric content – a trait that Grammy voters love, especially these days – of many of Christ Illusion ’s scathing cuts, particularly the winning song, “Eyes of the Insane,” which chronicles the last moments of a soldier about to die at war.
“My take on it would be that 60 percent of the voters don’t even know what the song’s about,” Mr. King says, “and that’s probably being generous. I think the majority of voters just look at the ballot, check off a name they recognize in the categories that they don’t know anything about, and turn it in.
“Winning the Grammy gives you voting rights for it. I know that when the time comes to vote, I’ll just check off something or other in the hip-hop categories since I don’t know anything about it. I’m sure that someone like Jay-Z probably did the same thing with the metal categories.”
Slayer hasn’t compromised much in its history, but it has on its current tour with more newfangled shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, which stops at Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie tonight. Mr. King says that Mr. Manson vetoed the “Unholy Alliance” tour moniker because he’s trying to steer his music and image away from the gratuitous blatancy he has been known for.
Nevertheless, the Manson-Slayer combination makes for one of the year’s most unholy concert crowds. Slayer’s typically virulent and demonstrative supporters don’t tend to appreciate Mr. Manson’s spooky techno-gothic androgyny, and Mr. Manson’s fans aren’t usually down with Slayer’s blistering pace, volume and fury. Mr. King, for one, is reveling in the conflict.
“I haven’t seen any fistfights or anything yet,” he said. “But there’s a lot of gray area between our fans and Marilyn’s. We both mine the same depths. But you can always pick out his fans – they’re the freaky-dressed ones – and you can always tell who our fans are; they’re the simply dressed ones.
“There was this girl in the middle of the last show that had her fingers in her ears the whole time we were on. I [expletive] loved it!”
