If only Slipknot had campaigned more in the red states
It wasn’t miscounted ballots in Broward County or anywhere else in Florida that lost Slipknot the top Billboard album slot to rapper The Game, it was overeager retailers and early Soundscan sales that forced Slipknot to settle for #2. Because these pre-release numbers were included in [...]

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“We Rock Sweet Balls and Can Do No Wrong.”
The words on the CD cover are written in the same font as Iron Maiden’s logo and above the statement there’s a picture of a lightning storm bursting from a disco ball and striking a multicolor dancefloor that seems to be bursting into flames. The album is [...]

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We’ll make any excuse to post a hot picture of Pamela Anderson. In this case, however, it’s totally relevant because she’s the ex-wife of both Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, who got a bit testy during Alicia Keys‘ performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, resulting in Rock smacking Lee and Lee being escorted from [...]

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They’re not affiliated with American Idol, but Austria’s Starmania is pretty much the same show with a different name — and, apparently, a more lenient audition policy.
Here, the judges prove that they’re not quite ready for a corpse-painted black metal contestant. Maybe he would have fared better if he’d slashed his face with a razor [...]

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A heavy metal fan in Sweden is so obsessed with his favorite music that the state of Hässleholm in the southern part of the country has deemed him psychologically impaired and eligible for financial assistance from Employment Services.
According to Blabbermouth.net, the story was first printed in the Swedish publication The Local, which reported that 42-year-old [...]

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