02/22/2007
Recently, Slayer beat out fellow nominees Lamb of God, Mastodon, Ministry and Stone Sour for this year’s Best Metal Performance Grammy. Let us first kiss Slayer’s ass by saying that it goes without saying that they are legends, and we all owe them our first born children for their contributions.
However, was “Eyes of the Insane,” really the best of the best in metal recordings for ‘06? Or did Slayer get the nod because they are the most familiar name to a committee of Grammy voters who probably never even heard of the others? The answers: “No” and “Yes,” respectively. But, at least it’s not as bad as Jethro Tull winning the first one back in ‘89.
Slayer will always be legends, but we say give new blood some of the primetime shine.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:02 am
most nominees for best metal performance are bands on huge record labels. while last year’s(Slipknot) & this year’s(Slayer) winners, in my opinion, definetley deserved the award, there are hardley any, if any lesser known, non-manstreem bands getting nominated. all the nominees this year, with the exception of Ministry(that i know of, anyway), were musical guests on talk shows sometime this year.
they don’t even televise the winner’s acceptance speach for this category. the bastards!