Tomorrow the Metallica of filmmakers, George Lucas, will re-release his catastrophically bad Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D, I guess because there's nothing like sitting through a terrible two-and-a-half hour movie in the worst format available. The silver lining, though, is that someone has taken the trailer and re-done it with death metal [...]
Attempts by young children (or, really, their overbearing parents) to out-do 8-year old Juliet's "My First Hardcore Song" were inevitable. Next thing you know we'll have black metal babies who are tr00er-than-thou the minute they come out of the womb... oh wait. Today brings us 6-year old Jacob, who starts off his own official response [...]
Mash-ups have obviously been done to death, but every now and then you come across one which works amazingly well, and, well... sheesh. This Lamb of God/Ke$ha amalgamation is one of those things that's so well-done it's hard to believe it's a not a real collaboration between the artists. And I say that as someone [...]
When people ask why I believe in God* I say, "Well, look at Frank Mullen. If that dude wasn't born to front a metal band, no one was. Living proof that God takes care of his children!" Suffocation are great and all, but at least half the reason I go see them live when they [...]
Remember last week when eight year old Juliet released her first hardcore song? Of course you do; you were one of 14 million people (!) who watched her video. Maybe you even bought a Juliet t-shirt (?!?). And remember back in October when a full band of British eight year olds - The Mini Band - [...]
When your drum set consists of two bottles of motor oil, some kind of old shelving component, a couple of blankets and a wicker hat as a drum throne and you STILL manage to kill it, that's the very definition of metal. And when you're all of maybe 8 years old and you're playing as [...]
Not only is this pretty much the best thing I've ever seen, but it's like a thousand times more br00tal than any Winds of Plague song ever. Check it out immediately, it will make your morning: FUCK YES, right? -AR There seems to be some dispute about whether our friend Al discovered this video first, [...]
Like my good pal Axl, I'm kinda over it with Andy Rehfeldt's "Radio Disney" versions of death metal songs... or so I thought I was. The troof: it's just impossible not to be entertained by these, at least for one listen/watch, and to appreciate the amount of work that goes into the precision of making [...]
It's hard to believe that any city of reasonable size in the year 2011 wouldn't find the idea of releasing a completely cheesy theme song promoting itself to potential businesses and residents completely ridiculous, and that someone, ANYONE in the city's government wouldn't have gone, "Uh... guys?" But that's exactly what the city of London, [...]
Last month, Vince posted a video of a really, really beautiful young woman performing a really, really beautiful rendition of Mastodon's "Oblivion" on the piano. But one of the key differences between me and Vince is that I like my women to be batshit crazy. So fuck traditional beauty - I much prefer Ukrainian pianist Viktoriya [...]
So, I guess 2011 was the year in which djent simulatenously rose to prominence and jumped the shark. So it goes in the hyperspeed climate of ever-changing trends facilitated by the Internet. The band who produced this hilariously and on-point video, What We Call Victory, are themselves kinda djenty (but certainly not bad); at least [...]
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It's funny to me how modern pop music is basically just re-hashed early/mid '90s dance music ala La Bouche, Bizarre Inc., Everything But the Girl, etc. Apparently this group LMFAO makes a living on these recycled beats, kinda like the Black Eyed Peas and Katy Perry do... um, ok, if you say so! It's what [...]
When I watch naked sex videos, I avoid the rough/gross stuff (cuz barf) and the solo dildo stuff (cuz yawn), so it's weird and confusing that I so enjoy internet video of a dude playing drums to Katatonia (above). Like some porn, it's gross (drummer) and solo (guy gratifying self), so you see the irony. [...]
This dude might not be as hot as Katy Perry, djent has most certainly jumped the shark, and I just recently stated that I think covers of pop songs are lame... but this is pretty sweet, I'm not gonna lie. It also happens to be infinitely more tolerable than the original. Come for the sick [...]
I haven't played Skyrim, the latest installment in the Elder Scrolls franchise, because I've been too busy jingoistically killing brown people and Russians in Modern Warfare 3. But it's on my list of things to do. And once I have begun that sure-to-be-epic journey, I suspect I will appreciate this video of a dweeb in [...]
Whether you think Avenged Sevenfold are the best thing since UYI-era Guns N' Roses or you think they're a bunch of total flaming Labontes, you're gonna appreciate this video for what it is: one of the best moments of young Miguel's life that he'll cherish forever and ever and ever. Miguel went to see Avenged [...]
Have you guys heard about the petition by Detroit Lions fans to replace Nickelback with some other band, ANY other band, as the performers at the halftime show of their Thanksgiving Classic game? Vince mentioned it while filling in for Dave Brockie during a recent "Unnecessary Roughness" column, but we never did a full piece [...]
Did you all see the John Travolta action movie From Paris with Love? Yeah, I don't think anyone did. But Corey Mitchell sent this to us, and it's amazing. Enjoy: -AR