Metallica made a deli dude’s day when they rolled by his counter blaring their classic, Enter Sandman … and he didn’t hesitate to take lead vocals.
All of the metal legends — James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo — were in a Hollywood Gelson’s supermarket Thursday with Billy Eichner from Billy on the Street … and we were lucky enough to happen upon the live action. Heads were banging for sure, mostly behind the deli counter.
Think Carpool Karoake — with a 1/2 pound of shaved turkey. To go. Watch the video below.
British metal legends Judas Priest announce the reissue of their 10th studio album, Turbo.
The album has been remastered and will be released via Sony Music on February 3rd, 2017 on 3 CD (the original album and two bonus discs) as well as 1LP 150g vinyl.
Originally released in 1986, Turbo features all the hallmarks of classic Priest on tracks such as Turbo Lover, Parental Guidance and Locked In. Included on disc 2 and 3 of the CD reissue is, previously unreleased, Live in Kansas City, a live recording from the band’s 1986 Fuel For Life tour in support of Turbo.
The band add “The 80’s is considered to have been the best decade for heavy metal – Judas Priest roared through it and at the half way point went into unchartered territory with Turbo. Always believing that metal should have no boundaries, Priest challenged themselves taking on board new technical inventions to create fresh ideas and push their sound forward. The combined songs show another side of Priest’s range of creativity that captures a theme and energy infused with the over the top sensibilities of that era. The Fuel For Life tour certainly encapsulated the decadence of the times! Turbo remastered and accompanied by a pedal to the metal live recording from Kansas reveals Priest on high octane – raising fists and devil horns to the next level.”
Track listing:
Disc One – Turbo: Remastered
Turbo Lover
Locked In
Private Property
Parental Guidance
Rock You All Around The World
Out In The Cold
Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days
Hot For Love
Reckless
Disc Two – Live At The Kemper Arena, Kansas City:
Out In the Cold
Locked In
Heading Out To The Highway
Metal Gods
Breaking The Law
Love Bites
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
The Sentinel
Private Property
Desert Plains
Rock You All Around The World
Disc Three- Live At The Kemper Arena, Kansas City:
The Hellion
Electric Eye
Turbo Lover
Freewheel Burning
Victim Of Changes
The Green Manalishi (With The Two -Pronged Crown)
Living After Midnight
You’ve Got Another Thing Coming
Hell Bent For Leather
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was a guest on Eddie’s Sirius/XM show, Trunk Nation, on 12/14. The singer discussed the possibility of other Big Four (the tour featuring Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax) tour dates.
Mustaine said (courtesy of blabbermouth.net), “If the conditions were right, I think it would be great. I think that when it’s just the four of us, I think it’s great. If you do the Big Four and you’ve got four or five other sh—y little opening bands, that takes away the phenomenon that is the Big Four. We should all have relatively similar set times, we should all have relatively similar staging and really allow the four of us to be presented as equals and see where the chips lie. Instead of you’ve got three openers and another band, or you’ve got ten openers and another band.”
He continued, “It needs to be just about the four of us. And I think it would be really great if all four of us kind of had an even shot at how we were gonna perform in front of the audience. I think that when we did some of these other festivals and there were so many other different bands, it just messes things up. There were a couple of times where we weren’t even all on the same stage. And I’m not stupid — when you’re at a festival and one headlining band ends, there’s no way you get from one field, when you’re paying attention and enjoying the band, to another field on the side of the site before the first note starts up of the next band. Unless there’s a set time where they don’t do that, they don’t start ’em, but they never do that; they start right away. So you miss something by doing that. And I don’t think it’s fair. I think if it’s gonna be the Big Four, it should be just the four of us, and everyone is, like, right there and they get to see everything.”
The Big Four played together for the first time in history on June 16th, 2010 in front of 81,000 fans at the Sonisphere festival at Bemowo Airport in Warsaw, Poland.
Eddie spoke with former Pantera, and current Superjoint singer, Phil Anselmo on his Sirius/XM radio show, Trunk Nation, today (December 15th). The singer addressed accusations that he is a racist. Read some highlights from the interview below (courtesy of blabbermouth.net).
Discussing the video of him that surfaced earlier in the year, showing the singer giving the right-arm salute and yelling a white-supremacist slogan at a California concert:
“As far as I understood, this was a gig for my murdered guitar player [Pantera guitarist Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott], and from the second I stepped out on the stage ’till the very end, and you can watch the YouTube footage for yourself, me growing more and more — drunkenly I may, but that’s neither here nor there — aggravated by these… just two or three hecklers…”When people start screaming ‘racist’ over and over and over and over again at me, what I did was show them exactly what the ugliest possible thing I could think of at the time was. [They were yelling at me] constantly through the entire [event]. They were looking for what they got, and sadly enough, I gave it to ’em. But the thing is, I’ve always engaged my audience — always — and that was part of the charm of every band I’ve ever been in and the type of frontman that I am. And there’s one point in that video that I invited them to come up on the stage and I dared them to call me that to my face and I’d break their jaws. So at the end of the show, when I knew everybody was getting cleared out and whatnot, I lost my s–t, so to speak, I did what I did, and, of course, I could have just walked away, and professionally walked away.”
Talking about Machine Head singer Robb Flynn and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian’s reaction to his behavior:
“These so-called peers — those are your words — who gave me backlash need to take a good, cold stare in the mirror themselves. And anyone else who throws that word ‘racism’ or ‘racist’ around so freely, they need to understand the implications of said word. That’s a heavy-duty implication when you don’t know jack s–t about me except for what you’ve seen on what? In live performances, music videos, interviews… whatever. And taken out of this whole thing is my dark sense of humor, which at the time, I was half angry, half joking, because, funny enough, just before the gig started, Doug Pinnick from King’s X, a gay, black man, came to say hello to me. I kissed him on the lips because I’m comfortable as hell with my sexuality, and I don’t care what people think about me sexually. And then he said, ‘Man, you taste good,’ and it was the white wine. I said, ‘It must be that white power, hahaha.’ Yes, so that was a joke there. And then some of my musical peers — your words — took that, and, by the way, the main culprit [Blabbermouth’s note: referring to Flynn] wasn’t even privy to the room [in the backstage area] that I was in…Everybody in my camp and everybody around us, anybody who’s ever watched Robert [Flynn] over the years knows that he watches me, and watches me, and watches me, and sits in the corner, and watches me, and then when we get on stage together… You know what? It all comes down to, and straight up, he wants to ride the coattails, Jack — he wants to ride the coattails. He started off a song, and I told him to stop. I hadn’t even announced the song, so he took that as a slight. He started a song without me announcing the goddamn song, and I said something like, ‘You don’t know me,’ which is, once again, my sense of humor, and I know it hurt his little… his ego or whatever, which, you know, sorry for you, brother, but I’m not sorry. So he made an eleven-minute video, and some dude who knows nothing about me except Pantera and this and that. I’m a believer in freedom of speech whether you’re joking around or not — whatever.”
He added “This whole I’m-a-racist thing is infuriating, because it’s false — absolutely false. And I’d like to turn around and say, hey, what have you done to better your community, Robert? If you’re gonna call me out on this supposed heinous act, what have you done? What have you done? I know what I’ve done. I know what I’ve done for the inner-city kids in Detroit when the Kronk boxing gym was getting closed down, I forked over thousands of dollars that I most certainly did not have to make sure those kids got fed, clothed and had a place to sleep, because it was run by the last father figure I had in my goddamn life, a black man named Emanuel Steward, rest in peace, who used to call me before every fight that he would call on HBO, and say, ‘Whatcha think, Phil?’ And he would ask me my opinion of what I thought the outcome would be.”
As for Ian, Anselmo said, “The day after it happened, [Scott] goes, ‘Phil…’ He wrote me some e-mail, ‘What I saw was ugly,’ and this, that and the other. So says the guy who writes a record [in 1985] called ‘Speak English Or Die‘ [as a member of Stormtroopers Of Death]. And if that record would have come out this year, last year, f–king forget it. You think he’d get pounced on? You’re damn right he would, and he knows it. ‘And if you’re really sorry, donate to this Nazi hunter Jewish cause’ or whatever,’ I did it in an hour. Did you ever hear about that story? Of course you didn’t. You know why? It doesn’t make good headlines. I donated that hour, if not that goddamn second…”
“…”People say I have a history [of racism]. Okay, you go back in the day when I was in my 20s, and there was a shirt circulating around that said Stop Black-On-Black Crime, I took offense to it — a twenty-something-year-old Philip Anselmo took offense to it, because it was this exclusive thing in my brain. And, to me, it felt like, ‘Stop black-on-black crime? Why not just have a shirt that says, ‘Stop crime’?’ Now, here I am, almost fifty years old, and I can agree with that shirt wholeheartedly, and now I see where it’s coming from; I get it. Did I misspeak at the time? Coming from the upbringing that I had, I’m not so sure. I don’t know. But I most certainly did not mean to be racist. Calling out bullshit on crime is not racist…It’s the motherf–kers out there, straight up, that view through that lens… If they’re looking for something racist in anything, chances are if you’re looking through that particular broken lens, you’re gonna find it.”
Explaining whether he thinks the controversy surrounding the “Dimebash” incident has subsided now that he has given several interviews where he has been able to account for his actions, Anselmo said:
“I don’t pay attention so much to the music press. I think the best part of me hopes and knows in my heart that most people are logical thinkers. From what I’ve seen, and especially from going out and doing horror conventions all around the country, I’ve gotten nothing but love, nothing but love. And it’s from all kinds of people, not just one type of person, not just one color of person. Love from all sides of the spectrum — male, female, whatever, gay, straight, bi, black, brown, yellow, etcetera — nothing but love. So, to me, that shows me that, well, yes, there’s logical thinkers out there. Let’s just hope this think called logic can possibly spread as quickly as the germ of negativity, and that lens of preconceived bias that people want so much — they want it so badly… Why they want it? I don’t know. You know why? Because I know human nature. It’s so much easier to hate than to put the fucking effort into love.”
Stephen Pearcy’s fourth solo album, Smash, will be released January 27th, 2017.
The singer is streaming the songs, Want Too Much and Jamie from the forthcoming release. Listen to them below.
Pearcy previously released the official video for the song, I Can’t Take It, which can be viewed here.
Smash Track Listing:
1. I Know I’m Crazy
2. Ten Miles Wide
3. Shut Down Baby
4. Dead Roses
5. Lollipop
6. Hit Me With A Bullet
7. Rain
8. Want Too Much
9. What Do Ya Think
10. Jamie
11. I Can’t Take It (Album Version)
12. Passion Infinity
13. Summer’s End
The public exchange of insults that led up to Pantera splitting in 2003 wasn’t necessary, says bassist Rex Brown.
He recalled how he tried to keep out of the fight but wound up attempting to play the peacemaker as relations between frontman Phil Anselmo and drummer Vinnie Paul disintegrated.
The murder of guitarist Dimebag in 2004 put an end to any chance of a reunion, and the bad feeling between Anselmo and Paul remains unresolved.
Brown tells Loudwire, “There’s a bunch of stuff that went back and forth between Vinnie and Philip in the press, and I wasn’t very thrilled with it. At the time I didn’t feel that was necessary. We could have taken care of those problems, like we always have. At that point we needed to take a serious break. We’d been going for 12 years straight. I was caught in the middle and I didn’t like the way it went down. It was a rough time, man. It really was.”
He points out that Anselmo had stopped taking calls from anyone, and he wasn’t singling out members of the Pantera organisation for special treatment.
But, the bassist did what he could to persuade the singer to speak to brothers Paul and Dimebag. “I did talk to him and I had him call them,” says Brown. “I think they talked. I wasn’t privy to it at the time.”
He reiterates that the split could have been avoided, “We busted ass for five years before we even got our foot in the door. I certainly needed a break. I think we all definitely needed a break.”
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