Save Nergal!

So many times I have been accused of using this blog to defame, insult, berate, and slander metal band members. And while it may be true in some cases, as I feel that many of them deserve a good verbal beatdown from Yours Truly, I have decided for this one time to do some good for the metal community for a change. I have decided to use my forum to spread awareness of leukemia and to help Behemoth frontman "Nergal", aka Adam Darski, in his fight to find a bone marrow in order to cure his affliction.



Adam "Nergal" Darski, the 33-year-old guitarist/vocalist from Poland's greatest extreme-metal export, Behemoth, has been diagnosed with a life-threatening form of leukemia, a cancer of blood-forming tissues of the bone marrow. The disease, for which Adam is currently receiving treatment at the hematology division of the Gdansk Medical University Hospital, has advanced to the point where he is in urgent need of a bone-marrow transplant. (A bone-marrow transplant is when special cells, called stem cells, that are normally found in the bone marrow are taken out, filtered, and given back either to the same person or to another person.) In light of this, Darski wants to remind everyone about the need to be on the marrow registry. The more people get tested and donate, the more of a chance for life there is for him and others in the same situation.

Every year, more than 10,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma, and a bone-marrow transplant from an unrelated person is their best or only hope for survival. There is no data available on how many people die waiting for a match, but only four out of 10 patients receive the needed transplant.

The best thing we can all do right now is learn about the marrow-donation process, not only help save one of metal's leaders, but to also do the same for countless others out there struggling with the same disease. To learn more about how you can register to donate marrow, go to www.marrow.org.

Fans wanting to help out, register for the marrow program, or who have questions on running a marrow drive may contact the organization Music Saves Lives by e-mail at iCare@musicsaveslives.com or by visiting Music Saves Lives online at www.musicsaveslives.org.

Robb gets "Robb-ed"

Guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn of San Francisco Bay Area metallers Machine Head has posted the following message on the band's official web site:





"Today, Tuesday September 7th, between the hours of 1:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. PST while I was picking my son up from school, my house, which is located in the Martinez/Virginia Hills area of California, was broken into and many priceless items were stolen. Items include my wife's jewelry, laptops, wakeboards, cash, and most importantly four of my guitars, including the guitar that I recorded Machine Head's first album, 'Burn My Eyes', with. Also stolen was a guitar that is priceless to me that was a gift from late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell. The cocksuckers even stole my son Zander's mini Flying V I got him for Christmas.

"I am offering a $1,000 reward for the return of the black Ibanez Strat along with many stickers, a 'Designated Drinker' sticker. Additionally I am also offering a $2,000 reward for the safe return of the blue Washburn Dimebolt prototype. An APB has been put out to every Guitar Center in Northern California and the police were able to get several fingerprints off of the two acoustics that the thieves handled, yet bizarrely left behind."

I guess the "fans" decided to fire back at Flynn for telling off the people of Oakland that they suck as a crowd. Karma is a bitch! But to rob a kid of his guitar is pretty low. Just sayin'......

Slash gets "sloshed" onstage

It's an oldie but a goodie. Slash gets tackled by some douchebag in Italy. It's a close-call for Slash, but unfortunately his guitar can't say the same thing.

Brenna Gray gives birth to girl

Congrats to Brenna Gray, wife of late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, who gave birth to the couple's first child, a baby daughter named October Dedrick Gray, on Tuesday, August 17 at 11:10 p.m. October, who "looks very much like her daddy," weighed in at five pounds, 14 ounces and measured 19 inches long. According to a Slipknot spokesperson, the mother and the baby "are doing great."





I find it somewhat funny about a few things here. 1) The baby is name October, yet she was born in August. 2) Her middle name "Dedrick" has its first pronounced-syllable as "dead", as in, her father is ..... and 3) Her first and middle initials come out to be O.D., as in her father ..... on drugs. Coincidence? Why couldn't they give her a pormanteau of their names, like Paulenna or Brennaul, or perhaps something as simple, yet rather boring, like Paula? Do these parents want to see their kids stuffed in a locker, or beaten up and bullied because they made the mistake of giving their kid a stupid name?

In either case, I'm sure Paul would have been proud. However, I must admit that I feel nothing but sadness for the little girl, who going to grow up fatherless. Girls who grow up like that eventually become strippers or porn stars -- the kind of girl that members of Slipknot usually go for.

Fear Factory Tour Bus on Fire!

The distinguished metallers in Fear Factory got an alarming wake-up call this morning after a show in Sheffield, England, as one of the tires on their tour bus caught fire. The driver noticed smoke coming from one of the wheels when he stopped to investigate the trouble and saw that a fire had started. The driver immediately notified the sleeping FF members and road-crew and everyone got out safely, but watched in dismay and horror as their carriage burned away in the night. One of their crew members was actually still inside sleeping as everyone escaped, but one brave soul rushed back inside the burning vehicle and awoke his comrade, pulling him to safety. In either case, it is a huge loss for the band as they have lost of their equipment and their valuable belongings onboard. Fortunately, everyone survived and no lives were lost.

(from left to right: Burton C. Bell, Gene Hoglan, Byron Stroud, Dino Cazares)

But what could have caused a tire to suddenly burn the way it did? Was their foul play involved.... something SINISTER, perhaps? There are certain people within the community who aren't fans of guitarist Dino Cazares and have quite the bone to pick with him. Guys - and even a website - who have openly fought with or feuded with the man, such as:

Tommy Vext

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Raymond Herrera


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Christian Olde Wolbers


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Roadrunner Records


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MetalSucks.net


Or perhaps, it was karma laying the smackdown on bassist Byron Stroud who bamboozled fans into thinking that he'd return to sign autographs and instead changed his mind and stayed on the bus while disappointed fans stood waiting. Or could it be the dreaded "Metallica European curse"? You know, the one that took the life of beloved bassist Cliff Burton back in 1986 and thereby altering the thrash path for Metallica forever. It makes sense, after all, Fear Factory did spend some time supporting the venerable group in other parts of the world. Or, perhaps, some member decided to parade around the bus in corduroy pants and started the blaze by mistake.





Amateur footage by one of the members of Fear Factory of said blaze. It would have helped if the "genius" recording this video had turned the camera long-ways in order to fit within the YouTube perimeters! But, oh well!)

The "FEUD SERIES" Vol. 5: Steven Adler vs. Matt Sorum: "He's Got No Heart, No Soul, No Feel -- NO HEROIN!!!!"

Former reality-show star and supposedly sober crackhead/junkie Steven Adler is on the attack! This time, his intended target is the Melissa Ethridge-looking homo Matt Sorum, who stole the Guns N' Roses gig from Adler as he was kicked out of the band for his rampant drug abuse, eventually succumbing to a near-fatal drug-induced stroke. Now it seems that Adler is back in the saddle of rock-drumming and is voicing out his disdain for Sorum's work on what should have been his gig. But really, what does Adler have left that would matter at all to the world of rock anymore? Not a goddamn thing! The motive here is to sell records, of course, so he can score more smack and stick it his veins or up his nose. It's sour grapes from a pathetic, broken-down, beaten old man who has nothing left except a one-album legacy, a mediocre new group with Chip Z'Nuff, and a ton of debts.



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When asked what he thought of Sorum's playing on GN'R's Use Your Illusions albums:

Adler: His were just half-assed, crappy versions. Nothing personal against the guy, but he's like a goddamn drum machine. He's got no heart; he's got no soul; he's got no feel. And as life and the years have shown obviously I'm not the easiest drummer to replace. All I know is, "Use Your Illusion" would have been bigger than "Appetite".

Whoa now! Bigger than Appetite for Destruction, the 1987 debut that has since sold 18,000,000 copies in the U.S. alone? Take the straw out of your nose and come correct, boy! UYI were pretty good collectively, but what makes you think that your drumming skills would have been any better? Unless you cut out all the melodramatic ballads, piano-playing, shortened some songs, and choir arias, I highly doubt you could have done any better. Axl and Slash would have still hated your guts and fired your dumb ass. And sure, Sorum isn't the most electric performer around, but at least he is saavy enough to just shut up and play and keep away from the vices long enough to produce music, unlike yourself, who pissed away a great opportunity just to get a quick fix and stick more junk up your damn schnoz.

Think about that the next time you're laying in the hospital from another coke-stroke, you haggard-looking old fool!

The "FEUD SERIES" Vol. 4: Max Cavalera vs. Andreas Kisser: Did Andreas Kill the Sepultura Reunion?

Yes, we know that Sepultura is still alive and kicking with a brand-new album, 2009's A-LEX, which I have purposely chosen NOT to listen to. Why? Because this isn't Sepultura.... it's not MY Sepultura! It's also not the RIGHT incarnation. I don't know Derick Green, nor do I care to know who he is, all I know is he is not the right man for the job. The job belonged to Maxipad Cavalera, who vacated the spot in 1996 after the band wanted to ousted ice-queen Gloria Cavalera, Max's wife, as their manager. It turns out that after all these years, Max wanted back in - or at least try to get a reunion of the original members to perform, which also included his ungrateful, scumbag brother Igor on drums and Paulo Xisto Jr. on bass for a possible one-off show or even a tour.

Quite possibly, at the expense of the current members of frontman Green and drummer Jean Dolabella, Kisser squashed any hope of that reunion. Cavalera claims to have tried his best, but ultimately failed. Perhaps Kisser was making a wise decision in this.... we all remember what happened to Anthrax when those Yankee fuckheads had that "Among the Living" tour back in 2005-2006 and they couldn't decide on the proper frontman for the job. In that mindset, Kisser was probably doing the right thing. But for the fans who want to see this happen, like myself, Kisser is a fucking douchebag!

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Max had spoken to another douchebag from the PyroMusic.net about this:


"There were reports recently that you had been open to the possibility of the classic SEPULTURA lineup reuniting for a tour, but allegedly talks stalled. Can you shed some light on this perhaps?"

Max Cavalera: "Yeah, that was with Andreas (Kisser, guitars)... I thought the time was good, it would have been a good time for a reunion, everybody's alive, everybody's here. So I just decided to call him myself to see if we can get this reunion (happening that) a lot of people wanted to see, including my kids, my family, a lot of friends. I know a lot of friends in the whole world who wanted to see this reunion, I thought it'd be a good thing. So I call him and it didn't really go anywhere. He just demanded a lot of stuff, some unreal things, it was not... some of that was not even negotiable. So I just kind of hang up the phone and just say, "I'll try again later, some other time". So it kind of, with things like that now, we just... At least I try, you know, to the fans — I did try my best to get a reunion going, but I couldn't do it because Andreas didn't want to, you know? So gotta wait until next time."

"So try again in a couple of years' time then?"

Max Cavalera: "Yeah, let's see in a couple of years what will happen, maybe he'll change his mind and be more cool about it."

Like the man said, guess we're gonna have to wait in a couple years. Thanks, asshole!