photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Last night, we dreamed that Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul was a guest on a TV talk show, and was showing the audience how to projectile vomit at will. He'd kind of cough and spit, and a fountain of puke would spew onto the floor. Then everyone would cheer and a group of scantily dressed women who looked like cheerleaders would clean up the vomit with bar towels.
We're not sure if the dream was inspired by the prescription Tylenol with codeine we took or if it had more to do with Paul's comment to DallasObserver.com that Hellyeah will return to the studio on May 15 to record their second album. Read more...
Vinnie Paul with Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Between interviewing the Revolver Golden Gods Awards performers -- Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed and Suicide Silence -- posting entries about the event, reviewing the actual show and hanging with the heavies, we were able to shoot a couple dozen photos as the bangers walked the black carpet an hour or so before showtime. Click more to see close-up shots of members of Slayer, Megadeth, Alice in Chains, Motorhead, Bleeding Through, Job For a Cowboy and more. Read more...
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Our metal brethren at Revolver have recruited a bunch of icons to appear in a new advertisement for the first annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards ceremony, which takes place at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on April 7. Click "more" to watch the promo spot and read more about the event. Read more...
The second season of "That Metal Show" launched last Saturday at 11 p.m. on VH1 Classic. Once again, the program was hosted by radio veteran Eddie Trunk and featured his cohorts Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson. The special guest for the evening was ex-Pantera and current Hellyeah! drummer Vinnie Paul. Click "more" to watch the full interview with Paul as well as a clip from next Saturday's episode, which features Anthrax. Click here to listen to our audio podcast with Vinnie Paul. And click here to check out our recent podcast with Anthrax. Read more...
It was on this day, December 8, four years ago that guitar legend Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed onstage performing for fans at a club in Columbus, Ohio. If you feel like remembering a real metal champion, check out the new photo book "Dimebag Darrell: He Came to Rock!" and its accompany DVD "Dimevision," both of which celebrate the funloving spirit and superhuman guitar exploits of one of metal's most colorful characters.
If you haven't already heard it, click "more" to check out the podcast we posted Friday with Dime's brother Vinnie Paul, as well as some other links from sites paying tribute to the fallen hero.
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Back in the day -- before "CSI: Miami" or "American Idol," before iPods and the Internet -- bands used to scribble up their own fliers to promote themselves when they were putting out an album or playing a show.
In cities across the country, dozens of groups every week would post these ads on walls, poles, windows and any other surface on which they could be read, hoping their promotional efforts would draw new fans in a competitive music market. Then, groups, advertising weekend shows would cruise around town and pull down the fliers of their rivals, and, as the members of Pantera would say, "It was on!" Sometimes these acts of rudeness resulted in bouts of scratching, hair pulling and bitch slapping. Occasionally nails would get chipped. It was ugly business.
Of course, Pantera never pulled anyone's hair, and not just because they weren't threatened musically by any other bands in the scene. Everyone else was just too scared to mess with 'em. Pantera were tough dudes with a psychotic singer who knew how to box and would happily take on anyone twice his size, and usually leveled them with one punch.
This record release party for the band's 1990 album Cowboys From Hell was clearly the best thing that happening that night in July, three days before the release of the disc. Scrawled in capital letters and circled with drawn barbed wire, the flier promoting the bash was typical of the era, but created with more care than most. Check out the little drawing of Dimebag Darrell in a guitar God pose next to a $20 bill with an image of drummer Vinnie Paul.
And while the flier featured the official logo of their record label, Atco, it was nonetheless an example of truth in advertising. Pantera were indeed about to take over this, and every other town.
Here's Pantera at their finest with "Five Minutes Alone."
