Sermon from the Mount

System of a Down - a band of questionable political persuasion (yes guys - you are such non-conforming anti-capitalist rebels because you decided to release a record called "Steal This Album" - why not give it away for free on the 'net if you're not concerned with the royalties from the big evil corporate record companies.....) released a pretty decent album in 2001 - Toxicity. It had some pretty good tunes on it. I recently had the (mis)fortune to come across this musical crime against humanity recorded by one of the oh-so-kewl rebel rawk pop-tarts. I think the bitch deserves a week W.O.O. for pulling this kind of stunt. The one small mercy is that the stupid kid didn't try to cover a good song...... I mean it's not even funny in an ironic manner (and no - I don't mean in the way that Tiffany-clone/now I'm all angsty-angry-grrl-cause no-one'd buy my albums Alanis Morissette thinks is the definition of ironic).

Listen up RIAA and all the rest - it's not the internet that's killing record sales - it's the talentless hacks and whores that are releasing crap disguised as "music" which is causing sales to drop. I don't care how funkily you can mainipulate sounds using the latest version of Pro Tools (unless of course you actually do something interesting with Pro Tools) - if your songs uses a guitar, you play on in your film clips and you can't even tune one by ear - you've got no place in the business so piss off back to whatever soap you crawled out of.

What I'm listening to

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Special Bonus Section - for fans of Norweigan Black Metal. From popbitch

Norwegian Satanist Watch
Guitarist beheads corpse for hash

The black metal scene in Norway is once again going mental. Last weekend, Illvastar, the guitar player in Svartharid, broke into a morgue in Skien. He chopped off the head of a dead guy with a sami-knife (a 20-40cm knife with long, sharp blade) and arranged the other bodies in various "positions".

When arrested, Ilvastar claimed that he'd done it for a bet. His prize? A lump of hash.

But Illvastar still has some work to do before joining the cream of Norwegian metal weirdos, like Euronymous and Count Grishknackh.

Euronymous ate his dead bandmate's brain (in a stew, with ham, frozen vegetables, and paprika). And Count Grishknackh? He killed Euronymous, claiming to friends that Euronymous had "cried like a girl" while being stabbed.