Coming Soon!  Love the first commercial spot I saw with Old Time Rock’n'Roll where they tie the guys up to the tree.   Unfortunately I can’t find the damn thing but… here’s a few others…

So here’s another…

The Official Trailer(?):

Metallica was announced as one of the finalists for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the 2009 class.  It’s only fitting that the band that has influenced Metal and hard rock the past 26 years be put in their 2nd year of eligibility.  The only thing that pisses me off is lars’ attitude about it and his comment about Dave Mustaine inducting them.  It’s not like Dave told them to piss off and went off on his own, they dumped him.  I’m not saying they didn’t have their reasons but why be a complete piece of shit about it?  I honestly don’t see a reason why Megadeth shouldn’t be inducted at some point as well.  It’s not like Dave didn’t help Metallica get established and get their contract.

Anyway, here’s the Lars comments…

There should be a nice YouTube video here but apparently the person that uploaded it decided to not allow external embedding so….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWqJgKz2KVA

If you haven’t seen, Metallica released the entire CD for Guitar Hero 3 and Guitar Hero World Tour.  I paid $30 (marked down the first week allegedly from $40) for their CD with the GH3 unlock while the standard CD was $10 but what pisses me off is that there is absolutely nothing special about the packaging outside of a piece of paper that has the key on it.  So I bought this “Special Edition” from Best Buy that’s a piece of paper?  What’s worse is that you can download it for about $18, so that would work out to a few dollars less.  If it had some kind of additional value like an extra CD or enhance CD or ANYTHING it would have been more than a freakin’ piece of paper with a redeem code on it.

Anyway, if you see it at Best Buy, AVOID IT.  It’s not worth it, especially if they mark it up to $40.  As for adding the tracks, it’s great to get to play through some of my favorites from the CD and I’m sure that with Guitar Hero World Tour it will be even nicer having the drums and full band going.

As for the CD, I love Death Magnetic!  As for the complaints about it hitting the wall, I don’t completely agree.  When ripped to MP3 I notice it but on the CD itself I don’t hear it even in my car which has a fairly high end system in it.  I think it covers a lot of the Metallica discography in terms of influence from previous discs.  I can hear Justice, The Black Album and a little of the Load/Reload mixed with the classic sound.  I’ll go into a more indepth review later (I always say that and never get back but I’ll try this time. ).  It’s been in my car since Sunday and about all I’ve listened to show what I think of it.  I’ve not listened to a disc like that in a long time.

Another great disc and maybe their best, although I’m a bit partial to the Unreleased B Sides (with the AiC cover of Got Me Wrong and Lynchburg Lemonade). I think this third disc is solid with goodness from start to finish. I think of ToaD as one of the newer rock bands in the mold of true rock along with Three Days Grace, Three Doors Down, Nickelback (even if over played) and a few others that just seem to not be hard rock or necessarily have a completely new “modern” rock feel to their music. One of the things that singles these kinds of bands out is their ability to throw out flowing ballads along with heavier tracks. Scars and Souvenirs is no different with several well done ballads. End of the Summer almost sounds like Tyler summoned .38 Special’s Don Barnes and sounds almost like it could have been a cover. For me, it’s a great thing, I love the Don Barnes years of .38 Special (including the newer songs).

I laughed and completely agreed with the lyrics for Hate My Life (oh please kill me now). I think it’s a list of things all of us think whether we always say it or not.

It seems that Tyler Connolly’s vocals have improved and all of the songs on the disc highlight his abilities and showcases his range and ability to move from heavier tracks to ballads.

Check out Theory of a Deadman’s Official Site.

Also check out the track list for Theory of a Deadman’s Scars and Souvenirs at Amazon!





I really want to check these guys out at Rock on the Range which also has a crap load of my other favorites: STP, Disturbed, Staind, Killswitch Engage, Shinedown, Finger Eleven, Filter on Saturday and Sevendust, Alter Bridge, Default, 3 Doors Down, Papa Roach, Drowning Pool, Fly Leaf, Kid Rock (meh) and Bobaflex (signed and somewhat local) on Sunday!

This is an awesome track that I came across a while back and just found this embedded link so thought I’d post it. The music is perfect and Rollins is a brilliant poet, satirist and musician.

Check out Black Water Rising on their myspace account!  Seriously, I don’t get overly excited about a lot of shit but this band just rocks the hell out of me!