Kerrang! Music Awards: Get your shit together Europe.
Yes, Europe is home to many awesome metal bands, and arguably the metal-mecca of festivals: The Wacken Open Air Festival. But alongside all of the heaviness, there is a lot of weird bands that Europe (still) listens to. Only in Europe could you see a show where Opeth opens up for Motley Crue, or see Manowar play sold-out venues, or see Limp Bizkit play...well, shit, just show their faces in public. As another demonstration of Europe's seemingly open nature to mix together a shit load of bands in one place, Kerrang! music is hosting an award ceremony to honor musicians themselves by giving away "shiny K!" trophies to bands that fans get to vote for. "What's wrong with this?" you say? Nothing, I guess. But these categories look like they were thrown together by a damned 10 year-old. Slipknot is in almost every category, which is funny seeing as how Corey Taylor is hosting the damned awards show. The weirdest thing, obviously, is the random choice of bands in each category.
Bang your head! Oww - my back!
For some of you, this is a preview of things to come.
2009 San Francisco Outside Lands Concert Lineup...Mastodon is playing?
This year's outside lands festival is sure to be the Bay Area's biggest hippie jam fest of the summer. I think I was the only one in the Bay Area that didn't go last year. I wonder though, how in God's name did Mastodon get on the bill opening up for Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band (who?).
See the San Francisco Outlands Concert Venue Information Here.
I'm not sure I want to sit though 10 other bands to see Mastodon, so I'll probably skip out on that. However, I may have to make a special guest appearance on Sunday to see the BEASTIE BOYS. Awwww shiiiiiit boyyyyeee!
Gwar on Fox News
This interview is friggin' hilarious. Usually Red Eye sucks, but I love how Gwar don't take themselves so serious...unlike other costumed bands that will not be mentioned.
This Has Nothing to do with Anything
But it's funny as hell. Oh wait, he does play the guitar for a couple seconds, so there.
In Honor of Father's Day
In honor of Father's day, I thought it was time to bring back an old classic:
"My Fail Knob goes all the way to 11."
Seriously, this band needs to turn the fail down, the suck pedal needs to be unplugged, and they need to increase the ritualistic suicide. This video represents everything that's wrong with the metal scene these days:
What The Fuck Moments Presents: Metallica, 10+ years of WTF. Top 7 WTF moments from the past decade.
And Here's a Collection of People Moshing to Crappy Music...
For your entertainment purposes:
The Bloggy-Blogs and Facey-Spaces are all a-Twitter over FNM Reunion
Every metal outlet in the country was giddy with nostalgia watching Faith No More perform at the Download Festival yesterday. It was pretty cool to see the Bay Area rockers take the stage after a long-ass time. I don't get all nostalgic as some people do when talking about FNM (I own The Real Thing), but I can appreciate the event nontheless.
I don't see any video downloads yet of yesterday's video stream, but keep an eye out for it here.
Bay Area (Marijuana) Scene
Who's going to see Testament this Friday at the Fillmore?
If there's one blemish in my concert-going resume, it's the lack of shows involving Testament. In fact, I have yet to see Testament live. How can this be? Well, I didn't do it on purpose, it just happened that while I lived in SoCal Testament mostly played at realllly out of the way venues, if at all. Yeah, that's no excuse, but if there's one thing I learned while living down south it's that you only go to L.A. when you absolutely need to, and you only go *way beyond* L.A. when your life is in dire circumstances. What's my point? I don't have one. But since I run the show I get to post whatever I want, and what I want is to supremely rock out to some damn TESTAMENT!
Jesus H. - It's been a while since I've laughed this hard.
I love videos like this. Not sure what song this is, but man:
Lord of the Rings, WOW Dorks, Rejoice.
You suddenly are much cooler?
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Talk about upcoming shows, past shows, or various other metal related topics in our FORUM. You do have to register again to post comments, but it's pretty painless. See you there!
Am I the only one that doesn't like Devin Townsend's new album?
Are there other people out there that don't really give a crap about Devin being all mellow, jamming out on some eclectic boogie/jam/acoustic/jazz inspired tune? I want to hear him scream and act like the crazy ass metal bastard that he is!
Ki, the new Devin Townsend tune comes out this month and well, it's pretty mellow from what I've heard. Like, REALLLY mellow. I'll let your ears be the judge:
http://www.myspace.com/devintownsenddtb
Granted, there are some heavy parts thrown in the Teaser audio clip, but there are 13 tracks on this album and I'm guessing there's a lot of room for Satriani-style jammy time. Speaking of Satriani - what the hell happened to Devin's HAIR?! (Or should I say hairs?)
More to come on this, I'm sure...
This Just Made My Day
It may not be the actual Lemmy, but I still feel all tingly inside.
We've been rocking out, we promise.
So, it's been awhile since we posted anything new. Honestly, it's been quite busy lately with things non-bayareametalscene.com related, we haven't even had a chance to post a review of the Opeth or Gojira shows, which both ruled supremely. But rest assured - we have been rocking out quite regularly and reading all of your emails.
Additionally, we'll be putting up a forum so that all you metal heads can put up your own reviews and links to all the youtube videos that you guys bootleg. Seriously, you guys have made some good bootlegs.
Keep rocking and check back regularly for updated show schedules, contests and shenanigans!
New Alice in Chains - September
Alice in Chains have reported on their website that they've completed recording their new album, which is due mid September:
Win 2 tickets to see Gojira!
We've got two tickets for a lucky winner to see Gojira at Slim's in San Francisco on May 21st with supporting acts The Chariot and Car Bomb. Tell us the reason that you deserve these tickets!
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