Rock and roll may never die, but sometimes it needs to take a part-time job. In the 1980s, Canadian heavy metal band Anvil was on top of the world. Touring with acts like Slayer, Metallica and Motorhead. However, while these bands found a place at the top of the charts, for some reason Anvil never …
For the most part, 2008 musically passed with the grandeur of an oboe solo for me: nobody noticed or cared, except for the occasional court-awareness, awe-struck moment of, “Whoa, hey! There’s an oboe solo going on right now.”
This is today’s funny little news bit: Dave Grohl, frontman for Foo Fighters, drummer from Nirvana and helmer of metal side project Probot, has issued an open letter to Metallica regarding the new album:
My flame for Metallica has dwindled over the past few years, largely in thanks to their lackluster album, St. Anger, which, despite reviews saying it was a return to form for the fellas, was actually kind of crappy.
Drummer Lars Ulrich recently spoke with Bruce “Legendary Singer for Iron Maiden” Dickinson on Dickinson’s BBC radio show and noted that Metallica’s new album is coming along and the band has their eye on a September ’08 release (perhaps if Ulrich would stop doing friggin’ radio interviews about the album he could focus on the …