Based on what I saw of Amber Wild, he's a solid guitarist...he just shouldn't be near a mic. And I don't think there's any shame in that, not everyone can be a front man, regardless of who your Dad is.

I would absolutely go see it, however, they'd NEVER do it. You're not getting gold toilets on the rider and playing: Speedy's Coming Top of the Bill Life's Like a River In Trance Pictured Life Catch Your Train Virgin Killer The Sails of Charon Steamrock Fever We'll Burn the Sky ...now that I think a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwMZ20ZVZeE - Invincible Shield

I wonder if they're just throwing him a bone or if that means they are going to start transitioning away from Tipton being a "member"?

Looks similar to the Whitesnake Boxed Sets Coverdale has been putting out the last few years. Seems like everyone is emptying out the closets for content. Not saying that's a bad thing, but 100 bucks is way too high for this, especially when those Whitesnake sets go for between 60 and 80, depending ...

Hamas, the de facto government of Gaza, attacked Israel, just as Japan attacked the USA. Why is one genocide and the other a just war? Traditionally, a war is between two military powers. I don't see a military in Palestine. But what I do see is a bunch of innocent people getting killed in a blood ...

Are you guys disgusted by the American genocide of the Japanese in WWII? You're going to have to be a lot more specific, because if that's some sort of comment about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it's not just apples and oranges, it's apples and watermelons. The Japanese started that war, (and had been k...

It's striking how good some of these songs are....and how bad a singer Ace is. Say whatever you will about Paul Stanley live, but he would never lay down a track that sounded like this in the studio.

I called this in the other thread: Kerry was in for a rude awakening trying to take a solo project on the road. No way he'd keep all those talented guys on the road together paying them Kerry King Band wages. Occasional Slayer-sized cash infusions will help. Just read this in the blabbermouth comme...

KK's band will likely be on the back burner now. Yeah, all the guys who just finished that album and were excited to go on tour and make money are prolly all now like ".........fuck." Gary Holt has got to be happy though. Should be two nice little paychecks for him, and maybe more in the ...

Zabooka wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:45 am
Money talks.
Boredom builds up over time.
Tom wanted to spend more time with his wife and kids. After 5 years, he's probably sick of them.

Well, sure, it's just weird to have this announced RIGHT after Kerry finally got his solo thing going.

What a bizarre situation. Did Tom decide, "well, if Kerry and Paul are playing, I might as well get paid, too."? Makes me wonder if they'll stick to Slayer for festivals after this to get a bigger payday, and Kerry will do touring with his solo band.

keyofgee wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:45 am zakk wylde has the worst guitar tone in that. not his playing, the tone......

Eh, he sounds like Zakk. I actually liked his bit, it was a nice contrast to everyone else being super clean.

Gibsonite wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:14 pm Hot take - You can feel bad for a bunch of kids that died at a music festival and still think Netanyahu & the IDF are genocidal pieces of shit. They aren't mutually exclusive opinions..

Logic? On My Sludge? IMPOSSIBLE.

RATT were pretty meh about each other as well. I think there were groups within the band that liked each other, but in general, they didn't seem to enjoy each other's company. IIRC, at least Pearcy and Blotzer had their own backstage rooms. Based on social media, Pearcy seems to miss Robbin a lot. ...

RHCP. Chad doesn’t know Flea. Yeah, Anthony and Flea totally have loathed each other for last 45 years... Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but Chad had an interview a few years ago where he mentioned that he didn't hang out with Flea, and that he'd only been to his house like twice or something...

Who's the third guitarist they brought out mid set? Wiki says Russ Irwin, but that doesn't look like him.

Chris Adler. Lamb of God have had quite a run. Still no idea what actually happened. He didn't quit, he was playing with Megadeth when there was downtime, and then when Dave made him choose, he went back to Lamb of God full time, only to get into a motorcycle accident, and then LoG decided to move ...

Mike Portnoy. Sure he made it back in, but it was a long 13 years for him. I dunno, I mean, yeah, I'm sure he regretted it after the Avenged Sevenfold guys decided they didn't want their dad hanging around anymore, but he was absolutely EVERYWHERE during that time period. I don't think that happens...

GreatWhiteSnake wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:40 pm I posted a thread with a similar premise on EE but they didn't get it. The album is even titled Ghost Stories. AI assisted apparently. I wonder how?

AI assisted? Ick. I'm out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mihD0TWsPk I don't buy it. Sure, maybe he had vocal cord surgery, and maybe he was in therapy for the last year or so, but I still think it was physical therapy to recover from a stroke. He looks the most lifelike in this clip than he has in YEARS, and just fixing yo...

Oh, wait, I'm sorry, I meant Blue Oyster Cult. Same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbf6i23DeLs

Re-recording songs with a new vocalist doesn't usually work so well. Exodus re-recorded Bonded by Blood to shite reviews, Anthrax re-recorded Belladonna songs with Bush, I'm pretty sure that bombed too... I wouldn't say bombed, because I don't think it had high expectations to begin with. It sold t...

Are they not calling this Slayer just so they don't have to pay Tom a cut? Because this is Slayer. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty close. Kerry said in the interview he hasn't talked to Tom in 5 years, so I can imagine the last thing he wanted to do was deal with all the business BS. This way he can go o...

ParaDime77 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:01 pm
It’s the ultimate cut and paste album. Has small sections of songs that can be good, but is truly a disjointed effort.

Counterpoint: Even a shitty Van Halen album with Roth is MILES better than anything in a lot bands entire discographies.

Sam almost seems shocked to actually be on stage with someone that can play guitar.

Semi-related, looks like for the 2024 Pantera shows, they've scrapped the Cemetary Gates taped tribute, and replaced it actually playing Floods. I might have to go see this show now, that's one of my favorite songs by them. https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-pantera-performs-floods-for-first-time-s...

I get Roth not liking Tokyo Dome, even though it still gets played on the Boneyard pretty regularly, but I don't understand not liking A Different Kind of Truth. Clearly, he did all the artwork, he did all the backstage videos that are on the deluxe edition, and those are HIS songs. Just seems like ...

Not that I was ever in the area, but there's no way I'd ever go in there after what happened. Just feels like a place that shouldn't exist.

I would definitely stick to just the studio albums. James LaBrie sounds like Don Dokken these days.

I completely misread that, so the confusion is on me. The point I was trying to make was that it made a big difference who Roth chose to play that role, and that him choosing Holmes as a replacement for Becker (someone that actually had talent and could play the Van Halen/Vai parts well) was a bad i...