Forgive us if we’re a little skeptical, but according to REVIEWniverse (who?) an anonymous source has stated that Mike Judge is currently outlining 30 new episodes of Beavis And Butt-Head. In it’s original run, the iconic animated show ran from 1993 to 1997 on MTV. If this is indeed true, we can thank the fact that with King of the Hill over andthe unfunny The Goode Family tanking, he’s gone back to his roots. While Beavis and Butt-Head has been syndicated and re-released on DVD in recent years, it’s been in extremely edited form, with most of the music videos the two made fun of omitted due to licensing.
One of the best things about the anonymous source is that the new episodes will include the two critiquing music videos. In the original run, Danzig, White Zombie and Crowbar were among the heavier bands that got mainstream success as a result of the two chuckling at them. And the above bit with Pantera is pure comedy gold. It’ll be awesome to see what new heavy bands the two choose to champion or mock, and we’re looking forward to seeing their takes on the likes of Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga.
This season of Saturday Night Live might be the most metal season in the show’s 35 year history. SNL has poked fun at ICP (twice), had Dave Matthews impersonate Ozzy Osbourne, and staged a hardcore wedding attended by Dave Grohl all within the past season. Well this past weekend, the show proved further that the staff is made up of metal heads by having host Betty White perform an … interesting rendition of the ‘Golden Girls’ theme “Thank You For Being A Friend.” Take a look above to watch a Golden Girl get brutal on your ass!
A few weeks ago, Metal Blade records launched Metal Blade TV, a Web site dedicated to not only artists on the label, but pretty much anything heavy. While there are plenty of quality metal blogs and sites already out there (*cough*), the new site aims to go behind the scenes of Metal Blade, with Chairman/CEO Brian Slagel doing many of the interviews. Right now, there are features with Armored Saint cooking, Charred Walls of the Damned being interviewed, and videos from the likes of Unearth and Lizzy Borden. We caught up with Slagel to speak about the concept behind Metal Blade TV and future plans for the site.
What’s the thinking behind launching Metal Blade TV?
We wanted to really show as much content to our fans as we could. Since all this great new technology exists we really wanted to use it as best we felt we could.
You’ve already hired one person to shoot video for the site. How many more people do you think will wind up working for the site?
We are working with a lot of different people as well as our artists to get as much new and fresh content as we can. Now that Metal Blade TV exists we are working on making it as good as we can.
Metal Blade TV is an online entity at this point in time. Do you envision it eventually becoming a TV show?
That would be great if it can happen. It is a possibility for sure in the future. Right now we just want to make it a cool place for metal heads to see stuff online.
Why has the metal music video essentially disappeared from television?
I think these things are somewhat cyclical. We have had 2 great runs of shows like Headbangers Ball which is great and it still is there. With the advent of better quality and on-demand options on the internet, it makes a lot of sense that people can see things there instead of just TV. Plus it is hard to get TV viewers to spend 4 or 5 minutes with a music video. That said, there are still a lot of options on regular TV for people to see music videos.
If you don’t envision Metal Blade TV being just about Metal Blade artists, what do you see it becoming?
All of us here are really big Metal fans first and foremost. So we really want to have stuff other than just Metal Blade artists on here. I don’t want it to just be a record company promoting our stuff. I want it to be much more than that and just a really cool site people can come check out all sorts of metal oriented content.
What does this mean for other TV outlets or Web sites that want to interview Metal Blade artists? Will Metal Blade TV always get the exclusive?
No not at all, in fact since we are creating so much content we will be able to get that out to other metal sites too. Plus we want everyone to link to the content we have. We all want to work closely with all the other outlets to really promote the genre of metal as best we all can.
These videos are all on YouTube embedded players. Why should someone go to Metal Blade TV to see the content as opposed to YouTube? Of course they can just go to YouTube. We just wanted a landing page to help people to navigate all the stuff we have.
What about the rare live clips the press release teased? Are these from your own archives, or professionally shot?
Both really. I have a ton of old stuff and want to start to get that out there for people to see. Plus we will link to other stuff that already exists that people may not know about.
Were Monday night’s slate of crime procedural dramas the most metal ever? Well, from an actual standpoint of metal, no, but with the Rob Zombie-directed episode of CSI:Miami and Law and Order taking on the Juggalo epidemic in an episode called “Steel Eyed Death,” this wasn’t your mom’s CSI and L&O.
First off, Law and Order always rips stories from the headlines, so it was about time they got around to writing about last year’s horrorcore killings, when someone calling himself Syko Sam killed four people. The episode starts off, not surprisingly, with a family getting killed. Our friend Maura Johnston at The Awl did some research, and not surprisingly found that the Juggalo “family” didn’t like it. In fact, an Australian horrorcorist named Kid Crusher that licensed a video and music for the episode was shocked to find out that they weren’t that positive towards his people, and took to his MySpace account following the episode:
I am pretty pissed off to hear they based the episode on Juggalos and try to make us all look like criminals and real serial killers (and think we would kill kids?!). They never told me the full details on the episode before I signed the contract for the release of my music video, all they told me was it was going to be based upon a Horrorcore Festival and they needed my music and a video for it. I do not support the fact that people that don’t know who we really are, can be quick to say ” ITS A FACT “
And Psychopathic Records act Twiztid also weighed in on the episode:
Im super disappointed that the episode of Law & Order yesterday dealing with Horrorcore portrayed US (the Juggalos) in such a bad light… I understand that the show deals with criminal matters but to take our whole musical genre and following and peg us as unstable shit bags with steak knives to little kids necks is taking it WAY toooooo far! That just simply NOT what we (the Family) represent…. and NBC is way out of line for that shit. Very very tacky NBC….. we BOOOOO you and your half hearted half assed 1sided views.
We didn’t see the full episode, just the preview clips like the one above, but it looks way funnier than the first four minutes of the Tonight Show With Jay Leno we suffered through later that night on the same network.
Meanwhile, the Rob Zombie-directed episode of CSI: Miami looks to have been a pretty good episode as well, combining Rob’s visual flair with the standard look of a CSI episode. It also gave the crew a chance to go on a road trip, out of L.A. and into Miami. Zombie got to direct Malcolm MacDowell, and the preview, featured after the jump, even featured Freya “Virgin Witch,” a song from Rob’s new album. Read more »
When it was announced that Them Crooked Vultures were going to be the musical guests on this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live, I instantly was hoping to see the supergroup make an appearance in a skit. While only one member joined the cast in action, I still got my wish. Dave Grohl joined host Ashton Kutcher and cast member Fred Armisen in a sketch where the father of the bride reunites with his old band mates for a performance at the wedding. Lets just say that the wedding guests are in for a Suicidal Tendencies-esque surprise.
Hit the jump to see Them Crooked Vultures performing “Mind Eraser, No Chaser” and “New Fang” on the show.
According to the Associated Press, Rob Zombie will be making his TV directorial debut with an episode of CSI: Miami. CBS tells the AP that production started today on the episode, which is slated to air on March 1. In the episode, the CSI Miami crew will travel to Los Angeles in a story that involves” secret tape recordings and evidence tampering.” Wow, if we called what a Zombie-directed episode would be like, we’d imagine the Miami crew going on a road trip to the Everglades, where their car breaks down near a farmhouse inhabited by a family of murderous circus freaks – with Sheri Moon Zombie somehow making a cameo.
It’s not every day that a metal band is featured on NBC’s The Today Show, especially an unsigned one, but that happened last week. To be fair, doom metal Earthen Grave didn’t get their own feature, but a profile of the band’s violinist, Rachel Barton Pine, featured about 20 seconds of the band playing live. The Chicago band features former Trouble bassist Ron Holzner and WKTA/Chicago metal DJ and friend of Metal Insider Scott Davidson.
A child prodigy, Pine began playing violin when she was three, and regularly plays with the Chicago Symphony and has a solo career in addition to Earthen Grave. 14 years ago when she was 20, she was run over by a train and lost a leg. While it took her several years to recover, she’s obviously bounced back stronger than before. If you’re in the Chicago area, the band will be playing at the Double Door on Wednesday October 7. If you’re not, check Earthen Grave out on their MySpace page.
Alice In Chains’ first album in 14 years, Black Gives Way to Blue, looks like it’s going to be a big seller next week. Music industry site Hitsdailydouble reports that the album is on track to sell between 130,000 and 140,000 copies next week. Here’s the band playing their single, “Check My Brain,” earlier this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The band did a two-night stand there, playing this on Tuesday and “Your Decision” and “No Excuses” acoustic yesterday.
We don’t watch the allegedly funny hit sitcom Two and a Half Men. Call us comedy elitists, but we’re more Curb Your Enthusiasm/Office/30 Rock/It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia kind of guys. Also, Charlie Sheen’s a little annoying. At any rate, Eddie Van Halen took some time off from feeding his son doughnuts to make a guest appearance on the season premiere of the Emmy-winning show last night. Yay bathroom humor! Eddie’s guest slot, while short, isn’t bad, but if you want to see the right way to make an appearance on a sitcom, click through to the jump. Read more »
It was a night of firsts last night. Shadows Fall made their first appearance on network TV and became the first metal band to play on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. They got to chat with the host for a few minutes afterwards, and he seemed impressed with the band. By the way, the second and third metal bands to appear will be Megadeth and Mastodon.
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Forgive us if we’re a little skeptical, but according to REVIEWniverse (who?) an anonymous source has stated that Mike Judge is currently outlining 30 new episodes of Beavis And Butt-Head. In it’s original run, the iconic animated show ran from 1993 to 1997 on MTV. If this is indeed true, we can thank the fact that with King of the Hill over and the unfunny The Goode Family tanking, he’s gone back to his roots. While Beavis and Butt-Head has been syndicated and re-released on DVD in recent years, it’s been in extremely edited form, with most of the music videos the two made fun of omitted due to licensing.
A few weeks ago, Metal Blade records launched
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