With their album titled The World is Ours and song titles taken from Al Pacino movies, Sumerian band Upon a Burning Body take their gangster movies pretty seriously. So when they saw that crabcore progenitors Attack Attack! are calling their upcoming tour the “This Is A Family” tour, they weren’t too happy with the guys jacking their vibe. Attack Attack! have been called out by a lot of metal fans, but this is the first time we’ve seen a band literally take aim at them. This is pretty awesome, and worth it for the payoff.
While the newest Rock Band game seems aimed at the casual music fan with the addition of a keyboard controller, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock seems way more focused on metal. Case in point: they commissioned Megadeth to write the “boss battle” of the game, a song called “Sudden Death.” In this clip, apparently done for the UK, Dave Mustaine talks about writing the song, and it also gives a preview of the song. The game, which will also come bundled with Soundgarden’s new Greatest Hits comp, Telephantasm, will be released on September 28.
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The Sword’s first video of their “trilogy” for Warp Riders finds them in the desert. With a real sword. And three witches, which is what “Tres Brujas” is in Spanish. Knowledge is power!
If you can make it past the one minute mark of this cover of Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child ‘O Mine,” you’re a brave man/woman. If you can tolerate all six minutes, let us know, because we couldn’t. If this is performance art, that’s awesome. If not, oh man.
Just before this year’s Ozzfest comes to an end, Ozzy Osbourne has released a video for the new single “Life Won’t Wait,” which was directed by Ozzy’s son Jack.
The video sees the Prince of Darkness trade in the transforming Ozz-rodents from “Let Me Hear You Scream” for death, flashbacks of rock star excess, and his daughter Kelly partaking in festivities (keeping it in the family). The clip plays as a recollection of Ozzy’s drug abusing, wild partying past…that is until he flashes his vampire teeth at the end. In other words, I can’t even escape from fucking vampires with Ozzy. Damn it! Is he making a return to the Bark at the Moon era? Despite the slight Twighlight inspiration, the video actually came out pretty cool and features a lot of awesome footage of Ozzy performing with his band. Check out the entire video above.
Well this is one way to fix Iceland’s volcano problem. A video where a bunch of fake guitar controllers were dumped into the Eyjafjallajökull volcano has been posted on YouTube recently.
The trailer was shot for a new band video game called Power Grip: Rise Of The Six String, which provides the player with an actual six string guitar that you can play the game with and also plug into a real amplifier. It sounds a tad bit similar to Rock Band 3’snew addition, but still seems pretty cool. Check out the video of the fake guitar rebellion above.
It isn’t that unique to see heavy metal combined with classical music anymore. Vitamin Records has been releasing string quartet tributes to hard rock acts for a while now, and you’ve probably at least heard one song from Apocalyptica (who started out as a cello tribute to Metallica). But just recently, RollingStone.com posted a video interview and performance with violinist David Garrett. His new album Rock Symphonies features covers of songs like Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Guns n’ Roses’ “November Rain,” Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” and Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” You can watch Garrett performing the Metallica classic above.
It’s awesome enough to see Slayer perform on network television, even if it is after 12:30 am. However, in addition to performing “Hate Worldwide” for NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night, the band also performed “Dead Skin Mask” (a classic from Seasons Of The Abyss) as a web exclusive! It’s a great little taste of what to expect from their upcoming set on the American Carnage tour, as the band plans to perform Seasons Of The Abyssin its entirety.
You can check out the video of Slayer performing “Dead Skin Mask” above. This marks another metal performance to happen on the former SNL star’s talk show, with Megadeth, Shadows Fall and Mastodon previously appearing as musical guests as well. Whether you like his show or not, you have to give major props to Fallon for having the balls to give metal a spotlight!
So even MTV.com isn’t playing music videos anymore? Well, they still are, just not music from the world’s largest label group.
CNet.com is reporting that MTV’s website will no longer be streaming videos from Universal after negotiations with UMG about financial agreements went downhill. “MTV has been unwilling to negotiate a fair syndication deal with Vevo to carry our artists’ videos and consequently our videos will not be shown on their online properties,” A spokesman for UMG revealed to CNet.
In a separate statement, MTV said the following:
“During our recent discussions with Vevo, we were unable to reach a fair and equitable agreement for rights to stream UMG artists’ music video. As a result, UMG has elected to pull their music videos from our Web sites. We are disappointed by this move and sincerely hope that UMG will work with us toward a fair resolution.”
MTV reportedly declined to enter into UMG’s standard financial agreement, which has been signed by other companies such as YouTube. This is a hard loss for the once king of music videos, losing videos from such big artists as U2 and Lady Gaga. The break off, though, also shows labels trying to regain power in a struggling industry. Record companies have long been complaining about the lack of revenue they’ve received from video streaming. In addition, Google (who owns YouTube) is rumored to be in the works of launching their own online music store, allowing labels to regain control from iTunes. Is the industry finding new alternatives to gain leverage?
If so, labels need to move forth carefully. As Hypebot points out, fans can easily steer away from legitimate channels and towards sources who aren’t under their control. This could easily backfire against them, then again it wouldn’t be the first time they let that happen. And as for MTV, I’m sure they aren’t sweating too much. There’s got to be a lot more people streaming Jersey Shore than going to mtv.com to see something as old fashioned as a music video.
Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy has just posted a video online of him and his son Max playing Avenged Sevenfold’s “Nightmare” on drums together. Oh yeah, did we mention that his son is only 11 years old?! And damn can he keep up with his old man, who has also been helping Avenged Sevenfold out in the studio and on tour. Watch the video of father and son bonding and kicking ass above.
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