No prayer for the dying

M: http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/machine-head-to-remix-rammstein/

J: " Will; 24/09/2009 4am; so sick of MH stop bitching about other bands and touring on a bad
record and remixing Rammstein and break up already"
:D

M: haha, was that secretly you? :)

J: no :P
i was in bed at 4am!

M: i dunno, it's just like you to be up late reading metal hammer ;D

J: I'd rather not, i was on /mu/ insulting people, dissing the new alice in chains, supporting No Prayer for the Dying, and laughing at slayer fans that like anything after HTC :D

M: keep haunting that chapel!
tbh no prayer for the dying did fairly well when it came out, it's no.1 in all the magazines i have at home from 91*

J: and bring your daughter went to no. 1, too, but that's my point about stuff; maiden had released 7th son prior to that, and people love that album, so they all went and bought NPFTD, but no one really likes it, apart from a few :/

M: booooooooooo its a great album! npftd has just as many good songs on it as 7th son, if not more! holy smoke, tailgunner, that nice slow one i like**, public enema no. 1 - that's my 2nd favourite iron maiden song!!

J: the whole album is good, it's possibly the only maiden studio album where i like every song

M: me too! i have no idea why people have issues with it

J: because there is a change in style as such

M: not that much, it still sounds iron maideny

J: they started singing more about social issues than icarus :)

M: yeah but "california dreaming as the world goes screaming"*** or whatever that line is is the best line ever!

J: you're a poser if you like anything after Killers ;)

*On looking it up, it turns out NPFTD was released in 1990, not 91.

**Ironically, the song is actually called "No Prayer for the Dying".

***It's "California dreaming as the Earth dies screaming". I was pretty much there.

Saturday Porn Slot

I've decided to give the honour (if you can call it that) for being the first girl to grace this hallowed hall of hotness to not only one of the best looking people in metal, but one of the coolest.

Liz Buckingham!

She used to play with the (nearly) all-girl sludge band 13, Sourvein and is currently guitarist for Electric Wizard.


To be honest, I don't know anything much more about her, but in my ridiculously shallow Saturday mindset, that doesn't matter. In the words of Bret Michaels: this is one smokin' hot chick.

Everything sounds better in Portuguese!

M: STEVE HARRIS-Owned EDDIE'S BAR Closing Down For Good - Portugal bar :D

J: that is just METAL!

M: DESCARGAR!!! :D

J: go to google translator
enter some metal stuff
translate to portuguese
??????
profit!

M: morte ao metal falso!!!

J: metal para a vida :D

M: metal preto para a vitória :D

J: Euronymous era homossexual e tinha que morrer

M: Varg era um assassino super. É meu herói!
everthing sounds cool in portugese. this is a language i have to learn!

J: pamplumossa metal são estúpidas e as pessoas que eles deveriam ser
expulsos da cena metal

M: os povos que fazem a pamplumossa do metal devem mandar suas mãos eliminar

J: that would be cool :D
only trve metal law can make that a reality
death metal é realmente lixo
:P

M: o death metal é um dos formulários os mais elevados da música

J: em seus sonhos

M: parafuse-o jon!

J: voltar a prestar atenção a rocha do amor, mas você pode deixar isso aqui nice ass

M: dat ass!!! (universal language) :D

J: :E

Disclaimer: Obviously we do not speak Portuguese. Sadly my dad comes from one of the only countries in the whole of South America that has English as its official language. On the upside, it has its own Manowar song :D

I can safely say though, despite this being an awesome song, I have NO IDEA what they're on about.

Existence is futile

M: Revocation - Existence is Futile (2009) - these sort of logos are so standard its almost boring now, but this one is quite well done

J: eh, it's a decent logo though :) but i know what you mean

M: yeah i think its a cool logo, its just these death metal 'unreadable logo' bands are ten a penny nowadays, it's just been done so many times before

J: it's still better than bands that use prefixed fonts :)

M: like burzum :)

J: you've got a point there, never really thought about it, but yeah, it does :D

M: i always think about that :) although he's used the same font always - when he first did it, i dunno if it would have been a set computer font or anything, it was a bit early for stuff like that. but its totally generic yeah :)

J: olde english or something :D

M: yeah gothic or some shit :)

J: although there is that one where the R tails off as an inverted cross

M: orly?

J: i'm trying to find it online :)
its in lords of chaos somewhere

M: oh yeah, i do know that :) those were all unofficial tho yeah?

J: i believe so, ye :D

M: haha so the only burzum logo that included a custom font was made by some randoms elsewhere :)

J: i like the normal one anyway, it suits it

M: yeah, looks pretty cool :) i quite like that it's not fussy or pretentiously "unreadable" or any of that. a lot of the older bm ones aren't so silly, a lot you can read easily, they've just been changed to incorporate loads of symbolism and stuff, they're cool

J: demon burger's is kinda lame :/ them long thin letters

M: it's rubbish, it makes me angry!!! their first logo is AMAZING i can't work out why they ever switched :/

J: i love their first one. i think it might be to do with them going onto a major :?

M: i wondered that, if perhaps someone wanted them to have something more easy to read - they never use the old logo now, although i don't own any of the physical cd's so perhaps it appears on the sleeves. tho i doubt it :/

J: i reckon it's a major label thing. most bands tend to have to alter something to either make them seem cleaner or more sellable to the mainstream market - depending on the label. i'm sure earache don't give a shit, but universal and the like might

M: well dimmu aren't on the biggest commercial labels ever - they were on some sub section of century media when they first got big, and now they're on earache - both labels deal with plenty of metal bands with stupider logos. maybe it was the timing or maybe new band members wanted to have a new logo, they've had a lot of lineup changes :? i've never considered why they gave up the old one before (never got past the anger) it is tres WYRD

J: must be a band decision then to become more known with a readable logo

M: stupidest decision ever.

although it probably did help become more commercial i suppose. it's not always that handy to show people merch and stuff and for people still not to have any idea who you are..

J: they could have at least made it look cool... like immortal who had a similar logo

M: yeah, their new one is so lame, it's just their name written, it's not anything. they could have used a decent font a la immortal or burzum

J: or made it readable in a cool way :)

M: like mayhem, that's easy to read, but its still a big logo sort of thing

J: mayhem's logo is fucking badass :D
because you can write it, that's always a good band logo if you can just scrawl it in marker or key it into a toilet door at the pub

M: i did :D

If he moves will he fall?

J: OZZY OSBOURNE: ZAKK WYLDE's 'Got His Own Career; He Don't Need Me Anymore' - drama :D

M: :O

J: srsly tho, ozzy's dead now, i bet he moves less then mick marz
who'd seriously want to go and fucking see him?

M: people still LOVE him tho and plus hipsters are well into sabbath at the moment

J: suppose, i guess they still play warpigs, paranoid and iron man, which gives people that love sabbath something, but fuck, he needs to stop it

M: mtv won't let him ;D

The shortest straw

J: METALLICA Performs 'The Shortest Straw' For First Time In 12 Years; Video Available - bet that was boring!

M: yeah i thought that when i saw it :) not worth waiting 12 years for that's for sure :)

J: i bet you can't smoke in the venue either. bore-fest!

M: yeah i doubt it :x

J: i think the worst thing they can do is play the whole of justice at a gig. that would fucking kill me!

M: robert trujillo might as well just sit the gig out if they did that O:

J: yeah, get the night off. he should pitch the idea to them :)

Hazardous Mutation