IN WHICH WE NO LONGER FELT POWERLESS

September 30th, 2011 at 5:00pm
Axl Rosenberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1fIBNYl9I

So, clearly, Mark Hunter wins V.I.P. of the week, and probably the month, and possibly the year for his exploits on Twitter this week. So for the third and final time, I encourage you to follow him and if you have a question, ask it. ‘Cause, holy shit, I dunno if you guys realize how amazing this opportunity is. Do you know how I would have felt if I could have asked Chris Barnes a question back in the day and gotten an honest response pretty much in real time? My fucking head would have exploded. These are truly amazing times in which we live, and I hope more industry folk follow Hunter’s lead and start using social networking platforms for a useful, intelligent dialogue like this one.

Also, while I’m on the topic, check out Chimaira’s new album, The Age of Hell. It’s possibly in Best Buy, definitely on iTunes and Amazon, and certainly on Spotify. And it’s fucking good.

And on that note, here’s some shit we did this week:

We debuted a new live track by the mighty Terror.
Dream Theater’s Mike Mangini, Arch Enemy’s Sharlee D’Angelo, and DevilDriver’s Mike Spreitzer all took us through their live rigs.
GWAR’s Dave Brockie kept us up-to-date on all things NFL, and Eyal Levi from Dååth talked about the value of not wasting time.
We spoke to Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher, Warbringer’s John Kevill, The Crown’s Marko Tervonen, and the legendary Michael Monroe.
We checked out the latest releases from Machine Head, Bush, Komondor, and Rotting Out and Homicidal.
We celebrated the life of the late, great Cliff Burton and bemoaned the horribleness of Loutallica.
We watched an amazing short documentary about Juggalos.
We also watched Tom Morello on Real Time with Bill Maher.
We took Tori Amos out back and beat the shit out of her.
We applauded Korn’s ongoing innovations in being terrible.

Speaking of social networks, I’ve had my own Facebook page for awhile just to do admin stuff for the MetalSucks FB page, but now I’m going to actually start, like, updating it and shit. So please friend me — and if you’ve done so already, I apologize that I’m only just now getting around to accepting that friend request, and I hope you didn’t take it personally that I took so long. I’ve also started my own Twitter account, and Vince has done the same. We’ll be using these accounts not just to discuss things we talk about on the site, but “overflow,” so to speak — stuff we don’t have time to write full posts about, but I think you should know. So now there’s even more ways to be irritated by us, tell us how bad we suck, etc. So, y’know. Keep up with us and stuff.

-AR

Tags: chimaira, Mark Hunter

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