This explains a lot, sadly
The PRP called out the fact that at Sunday’s Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, while accepting an award for being metal royalty, an emotional Joey Jordison revealed that he left Slipknot in 2013 because his transverse myelitis destroyed his ability to play drums.
Rust in peace
Sad but not very surprising: RIP Nick Menza.
Nick Menza (image courtesy Megadeth.com)
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/former-megadeath-drummer-nick-menza-dies-after-collapsing-on-stage/
Next level drum covers
There’s this Canadian metal drummer named Joey Muha who’s got an awesome series of metal drum covers of songs that are so not metal. Here’s one of my favorites:
You can find more of his excellent work here.
Trying something new
In my continuing efforts to make The Arsies the best imaginary metal tournament on the planet, I’ve started work on a new scoring system, which feeds into the First Listens. Now, instead of coming up with an arbitrary rating (0 to 4 stars), I’m scoring an album on multiple criteria. This adds up to a star rating, which hopefully will influence the battles come next January.
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Now that the Arsies are over, I can get back to the work of listening to as much new metal in 2016. To that end, I’ve set up a TIDAL playlist of all the albums and long-enough EPs that I’m giving a first listen to. I work hard so you don’t have to!
Before the Arsies Begin…
Dear Arse & Ziggles:
As always, I can’t wait for the Arsies to begin. As the suspense builds, I thought I should point out something you may already have noticed: The Arsies is anti-establishment. And that’s not just an opinion statement, I can prove it. Nick Cusworth at Heavy Blog Is Heavy aggregated the best-of metal lists from major metal websites (Stereogum, Loudwire, Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, SPIN, Decibel, LA Weekly, Apple Music, Metalsucks, Metal Injection, Metal Hammer, and Pitchfork) to produce one mega list representing the views of the “metal establishment.”
Metal?
I was listening to the new Haunted Shores EP today, and fact-checking myself on whether it was the side project of two members of Periphery. So I took a side trip to the excellent Encyclopaedia Metallum… and suddenly found myself reading a thread about the age-old question: are they metal?
