DAVE LOMBARDO SAID WHAT?!
You know we have nothing but respect for Dave Lombardo, but he just did this video interview with our friends at Noisecreep, and he said some disparaging things about two of metal’s greatest icons. Check it out:
[Lombardo] once said in an interview that MTV’s ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ denigrated metal. So when Noisecreep sat down with Lombardo at Hollywood’s Amoeba Records for a video chat, we had to ask what was worse for metal: the animated MTV heroes or songs like ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn?’
“‘Beavis and Butt-Head,’ because hair metal and regular metal split,” he says. “So I think it was definitely ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’”
WHAT THE WHAT?!?! Is he being serious? How did Beavis and Butt-Head denigrate metal? Because it portrayed two metal heads as idiots? So what? So did Spinal Tap and Bill & Ted and a million other things before it, and so have Tenacious D and Metalocalypse and a million other things after it, but I bet Lombardo doesn’t think any of those shows or movies were offensive.
How many kids do you think bought Pantera CDs because of that awesome clip of Beavis and Butt-Head pretending to be “Pantera”‘s dad? And at this point isn’t it more or less an accepted fact that Beavis and Butt Head launched White Zombie’s career? Isn’t it also an accepted fact that Beavis and Butt-Head is one of the funniest motherfucking goddamn shows of all time???
You break my heart, Dave Lombardo. You break my heart.
Oh, yeah. The rest of the Noisecreep video interview is pretty interesting, and less infuriating. Topics include the status of Slayer’s relationship with Dave Mustaine and why Jucifer are awesome. Check it out here.
-AR
