Yeah, the Trooper was released in 1983, but it must still be popular with the kids today.
Why else would Vans still be cranking out Iron Maiden “Trooper” Classic Sk8-Hi

Of course they also have Trooper Slip-ons and both styles in Piece of Mind and Killers flavors.
I kind of want Eddie on my shoes.
See all of the Vans Iron Maiden shoes

The self-appointed “Kings of Metal” - ManOwar – topped their own Guiness World Record for “Longest Heavy Metal Concert” (hey, you – stop that smirking!) by playing for five hours and one minute on July 5, in Kavarna, the “rock capital” of Bulgaria. Specially invited Guiness representatives attended the spectacle along with 20,000 true “ManOwarriors”. The band ripped through a set that spanned their entire career (how could they not? They had to play for five fuckin’ hours!) and included a classical string orchestra and a choir of the Sofia Philharmonics at the peak of the concert. Near the end of the performace, Kavarna mayor Tsonko Tsonev, known as “the Metal Mayor”, congratulated the group and thanked them for performing in his town. Of course, ManOwar vowed to return to Kavarna for another round of beer-drinking, hog-riding, sword-wielding, maiden-deflowering, blood-spilling, fist-thrusting, flag-waving, loincloth-wearing, muscle-oiling, mustache-growing, string-orchestra-plagiarizing, Satan-mentioning, DVD-filming, Odin-loving, motherfucking METAL.

Oh, yeah – they also performed the hella-rockin’ BULGARIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!

In other news, ManOwar has announced that their next record will be released in conjunction with a novel, an interactive game and a feature-length film all linked by the same theme.

That theme will be WE LIKE MAKING MONEY.

Hail and Kill, y’all.

Black Sabbath’s new box-set entitled “The Rules of Hell” is now available.  Containing all three Dio-era studio albums plus the double-disc “Live Evil” album  in their newly remastered state, this is a “must have” for any self-respecting headbanger.  Yes, we all love Ozzy and know that the original Sabbath kicks everyone’s ass, but never snub your nose at the mighty collaboration between Tony Iommi and the Diminutive One, Ronnie James Dio.  This is pure, unadultered METAL, people.

“You’re all fools - the Mob Rules!“

I’m not sure what The Fucking Wrath smokes or eats for breakfast but I want some of that.
Hailing from Ventura CA, these three make some wonderful 21 Century protometal.
“To the Eels” has some great screaming thrash in the beginning and then they slip into a fucking beautiful 70’s rock rif, drop the bottom out of it, then return to the thrash.

Their myspace gives a quick band member run down and equiptment.

craig/guitar-sovtek mig100-h, sunn 4/12 cab, 2 marshall 4/12s, orange or120, hiwatt 4/12cab nick/bass-sunn 300 colossium head,acoustic 4/15cab, peavy head w/2/15 cab john/drums-HE HITS FUCKING HARD.

yeah, it sounds like that.

Distortion and tight knitted drum & bass lines, inspired screaming vocals, and blues-based guitar rifs make for some fist pumping, kick ass METAL.

Their new album ‘SEASON OF EVIL’ comes out on aug. 14th on Goodfellow Records.
I will do my damnest to get a hold of one.
And….

They fucking opened for Blue Cheer. How cool is that.

If you are in LA check out The Fucking Wrath on August, 1 2008 at the relax bar w/SOURVEIN
5511 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, 90027
$10

I think KD mentioned these guys on a MySpace blog when stuff was all broken
I wanted to link up the trailer to the movie

Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2004-2007, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die. Their story echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.

To see more: www.http://www.heavymetalinbaghdad.com/

Looks like we missed the screenings, someone buy the DVD and tell me what you think.

When I was but a wee King D, I used to pester my parents into buying bubblegum cards every time we ended up at a 7-11 (remember when trading cards actually came with bubblegum?  Or, to be more specific - rock-hard, pink chalk that would maybe make a bubble if you chewed eight or nine pieces simultaneously).  Mostly I got Star Wars cards because I was never into sports, but at the tail end of '78, the marketing genius that is Greed…er…I mean, Gene Simmons, unleashed these goodies upon the world:  KISS bubblegum cards!

Because being the featured pin-up in 16 Magazine on a weekly basis was just not enough!!!

Anyway, as a short trip down memory lane, I thought I'd display my ALL-TIME FAVORITE KISS Bubblegum cards.  And, yes, most of them are of Ace Frehley…

The sad part of this story is that along about 1982 or so, I figured I was growing out of my infatuation with KISS and getting into more "serious" music, so I sold my entire KISS bubblegum card collection to a guy named Mike (I barely knew him then but later we became best friends, ironically) for a dollar.  That's right - one stinkin' dollar!  (He would never let me buy them back, either - but he did condescend to give me my three favorite Ace cards, which I have to this day).

So, we're all in agreement that KISS is basically just bubblegum music, right?  I mean, the proof is right above, staring us in the face…

So you were sitting in your room, in your mom’s basement, the other day, listening to an illegally downloaded copy of your favorite Cryptic Carnage album, Rozelowe, and thinking “I really need some new METAL tshirts.”

Maybe a Death Angel shirt or that “Christians to the Lions” Behemoth shirt you have always wanted.

But your local headshop doesn’t carry the Black/Death/Doom Metal band shirts that you desire. They seem to be limited to Slipknot and Lamb of God.

Metal Merchant does.

No I haven’t ordered anything from them and their prices are listed in Euros, and then in USD, but what the hell, they look legit.
They might kick your ass on shipping.
No big deal.
Its metal.

They carry CDs, DVDs, Vinyl and other stuff too.

Someone order something and tell me how it goes.

PS. If i find someone with an affiliate program that I can hook up to ClodsOfSodom.com, I'll be endorsing them instead.

Metallica and Me Part Three: Butt Pride

From the song Where Ever I May Roam – Metallica’s Black Album

 Words and Music by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich 

 “…And the road becomes my bride

 I have stripped of all but pride 

 So in her I do confide 

 And she keeps me satisfied 

 Gives me all I nreed” 

 I can’t hear this lyric without replacing the words “all but pride” with “all butt pride”. 

 Pride in ones butt.  Isn’t that one of the 7 deadly sins? 

I can’t help but(t) wonder what was going on in the studio, no one was giggling like a pack of 5^th grade boys making poop jokes while Hetfield was yelling “all butt pri-da”?

“Uh, take 27, Mr. Hetfield, better sing that lyric again, heh heh”

This was a band once compared to the Great Slayer and the Mighty Megadeath.

The band responsible for Kill ‘Em All, Ride the Lightening, and Master of Puppets.

Butt then.. Butt Pride.

ADMIN UPDATE 5/27/08
Looks like someone's lawyers are hard at word
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Is this serious, Bruce? What about the part in Motley Crue's book, "The Dirt", where they talk about smoking hash with Maiden on the tour bus in 1985? Tell me you were just fucking around!

My Maiden experience is only a week away…
Um…Up the Irons…?

It was once rumored that the 74 minute CDR length was specifically set to be sure to be able to hold Beethoven's 9th Symphony in its entirety. (snopes.com)

I think it’s more likely the devil made it that length to be able to fit Slayer's Reign in Blood on a CDR twice.

Try it, it fits quite nicely