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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Of all the places for Mary Clark, the mother of killer Nathan Gale to wind up on TV, you’d think womens network WE would be one of the last. Yet her story is one of the four featured on the show Secret Lives of Women, which is doing an episode on mothers of murderers. Gale executed Pantera/Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others onstage at a Damageplan show at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio on December 8, 2004.
The New York Daily News suggests that Clark comes off as a somewhat sympathetic character. She has thanked James Niggemeyer, the officer that killed Gale, for saving other people from being killed. And while her son told her he was schizophrenic after being discharged from the Marines, she said that she had no idea that we was that unbalanced. She thinks that the Marines should have helped treat her son instead of just discharging him.
Still, while it’s got to be hard to know you’ve raised a killer, she bought him the gun that he killed with, and if she knew he was schizophrenic in the first place, she should have tried to get her son some help. Either way it’s a tragic situation that bummed me out just by writing this post. And in closing, tonight might be the first time I’ve ever watched WE.
The Sun is reporting The Osbournes will be making a return to reality TV, this time focusing mostly on Kelly and her bizarre, 19 year-old, Powder-esque shithead of a fiancee. Filming for the MTV show starts today in London.
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Posted by Bram Teitelman on Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:50 am
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