1) Rap disappears and black men go back to learning instruments and resurrect jazz and blues

2) Neil Peart returns from beyond

3) Silver Talon become Maiden/Metallica-level huge

Honorable mention: Warrel Dane comes back from the grave, Lovebites tour the US and become huge

"Tai Shan." Even Neil said it's shit.

Who quit their band and fans said thank God in unison? Could be for any reason. Jeff Loomis bailing on Arch Enemy was met with overwhelming approval by fans who felt he was wasting his talent in that band. On the flipside, Anette Olzon's departure from Nightwish was also met with massive approval, b...

Phil Collen. One guitarist got bounced for being a drunk, the other drank himself to death. Phil was like, "it's mine, all mine!"

It was common knowledge that the four members of Slayer were not exactly buddy buddy offstage, and Kerry's recent interview with Rolling Stone is only cementing that. There was no animosity, except maybe for Lombardo, they just had nothing to do with each other outside of work. So what other bands a...

He was fired, but Ron McGovney has said he never regrets losing the Metallica gig to Cliff.

ALl things considered, I'd say Chris DeGarmo has no regrets about leaving the clusterfuck that Queensryche became.

I bet Matt Barlow is glad he left Iced Earth.

I love the album he made with Jello Biafra.

This one went under the radar. For Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella, The String Revolution Featuring Tommy Emmanuel won for “Folsom Prison Blues.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvZAmT7Skk TSR is a trio of acoustic guitarists, one of whom is Janet Robin, who in the 80s had an all-girl ...

After the hell she's been through, not surprised.

My latest find: Scream Maker, "Perpetual Burning." Reminds me of Primal Fear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJsPxERq45I

El Vampiro Blanco wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:04 am Linda McMahon can probably also forget her political aspirations now...

She's in her late 70s as well. I'm sure she has given that up.

Wonder now if this will finally spark a divorce. She and Vince have been effectively separated for more than a decade but never bothered to make it official.

Judging by some recent videos, Vince has a pretty serious Biden problem. The steroids finally ate his brain. He may be found incompetent to stand trial.

Laurinitas, though, is fucked bad.

I saw a video on TikTok that noted among hair metal/glam bands, the only musician who was a legit Gen Xer was Sebastian. All the others were born before 1965. And not glam, but it still blows me away that Gene Hoglan was 18 years old when he did "Darkness Descends." Tops even Lombardo bein...

I don't know about you, but I have never seen some guy beat the shit out of his wife in public anywhere, let alone anyone just ignoring it. Hr was Yakuza. Those guys who cut their own little finger off as a proof of loyalty to the clan. He wouldn't have given a shit about what anyone else thought a...

LitaStrauss wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:22 pm Rush's last show at the Forum in LA. I figured they'd be back.....

Same. And when I read Neil came out from the kit and joined his bandmates in taking a bow rather than run off like he always did, it was an "oh shit" moment of realization I'd made a big mistake.

Rush's farewell tour. I really didn't Peart was serious this time.

Nightwish in 2012 when they flew in Floor Jansen as an emergency replacement. They played HOB Anaheim and I didn't go.

I wonder what Neil's excuse would have been for never playing in Australia and New Zealand? Can't think of very many bands at the level of Rush who never did so much as promo or festival dates in Oceania. 18 hours of white knuckle flight there and back. He's not unique. The leader of Breaking Benja...

"Sex and Candy." Fuck I hated that song.

Any time you see news on Blabbermouth about a musician offering instrument lessons via Skype you know he's in trouble.

The revelations keep coming from Geddy Lee's book. It turns out Neil had a significant fear of flying and simply hid it from his bandmates on their many trips to Europe. He managed to get over it in 1984 for a trip to Japan that would prove the last time the band played there. For the longest time, ...

I don't buy it. They're too young. I think this is all a ruse, they're going to go away for a bit, ala Motley Crue, and then come back with a reunion of just the original four guys, since Steve is good with playing drums again. Whidbey is lucky to be alive. I can imagine he's pretty broken down by ...

I checked out the second place album by Hellripper (what a stupid name) and holy shit this is awesome. Old school thrash by a one-man show, a Scottish dude who is an oddball in that he's cleanshaven and ink-free and plays all the instruments. Could do without the black metal style vocals but that's ...

Poor Brent cannot get a decent haircut to save his life.

That was badass, and those detuner things he had on the tuning pegs were badass, too. I've never seen those before. I have. They were developed back in the 90s by an instrument maker whose name I forget in partnership with the jazz bassist named Michael Manring. You could flick a switch like he doe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SNkjkACRVQ

Sick!

I really can't believe that people are just hearing about Shinedown now for the first time in this thread. This is a band that has been around for more than 20 years, has multiple platinum albums, and has headlined arenas for at least the past decade. Are you really that caught up in an 80s bubble? ...

A 16 year old song by a band ignored by the industry is at #13 on the iTunes charts. Any idea why? I figure a popular show used it, like when Stranger Things used 'Running up That Hill' and the song got a brief pop.

The Metal Archives skews heavily to obscure and fringe metal. I mean, look at their top 10:

Dødheimsgard
Hellripper
Malokarpatan
Cattle Decapitation
Dying Fetus
Sacred Outcry
Moonlight Sorcery
Panopticon
Cirith Ungol
Overkill

Overkill is the only recognizable band on the list.

Love_Industry wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:18 am
As for Thurman, can't find any recent pics but if so I blame her German and Mexican side

What the fuck are you talking about? Uma is British on her father's side and Swedish on her mother's.

Martha Stewart Stewart, née Ruszkowski, is ethnic Polish. Women there usually look great young but age horribly. Almost as bad as say Ukraine or Russia where every woman becomes an overweight babushka after 30. Helen Mirren is Russian and look at her. There are exceptions to everything, the way Hur...