Latest News On The Heavy Metal Front

* Mastodon will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight, October 29th. Tune in at 12:30am! Click HERE for more information.

* The Oakland-based band High On Fire is slated to release their much-awaited 5th album in early 2010. The band stated, “We look forward to sharing the dark seas of our new riffs and tragic stories. Soon the next saga of High on Fire's world will be known.” The new material will be "heavier, louder, and more intricate."

* The new Iron Maiden 2010 calendar is now available from the Official Iron Maiden Shop. This would make a great Christmas present for a fellow metal-head!

* Play Call Of Duty 4 with Slipknot... Tonight, October 29th, at 6:00pm EST Chris Fehn of Slipknot will be taking part in XBox's Game With Fame, so everyone out there that is an Xbox Live Gold Member will have the opportunity to play Call of Duty 4 with Chris!
Send a friend request to the following Gamertag SlipKnot GwF and be online half an hour before (5:30 P.M. EST) the Game with Fame session starts.
For more details click HERE.

Slipknot - Psychosocial

Very few songs grab me the way that Slipknot’s Psychosocial does. This song has a very unusual sound for being heavy metal. Mixed with ‘psychosocial!’ being grunted in true death metal style, there are lyrics being sung that sound like they could be from an 80’s glam-rock hair band... not that there is anything wrong with 80’s glam, after all, what else was there to listen to then? But this song is a real stretch for a metal band... and man did they pull it off! The song is nothing less than awesome! The group has come a long way from their humble 1995 beginnings when they were playing under the name “Meld”. This year, Slipknot received a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Metal Performance’ and VMA’s ‘Best Rock Video’ for the song Psychosocial. They have been nominated seven times since 2001, winning in 2006 for the song “Before I Forget”.
These guys are not lightweight rockers by any stretch of the imagination. They are extremely talented musicians... and there are a lot of them... 9 members, wow! Very unusual for a modern metal band.
Something else strange that I noticed about these guys... one of the guitarists is playing a Fender Telecaster. I have NEVER seen a telecaster played in heavy metal... until Slipknot.
Here is Slipknot’s latest video that was nominated for ‘Best Rock Video’... “Psychosocial”

* rOcK oN *




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