In Which We Had Googly Eyes

WORST WEEK EVER PLAYLIST, January 27 – January 31, 2014

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And now, this week’s top stories:

• At the Gates officially announced their reunion album, At War with Reality.
• Jeff Hanneman would have turned fifty today… so, of course, The Grammy forgot to include him in their “In Memorium” montage.
• Speaking of The Grammys: Black Sabbath won and Metallica performed “One” (with Chinese pianist Lang Lang).
• Speaking of Metallica: we enjoyed Shinedown’s acoustic cover of “Nothing Else Matters.”
• Randy Blythe announced that “I Will Not be Thinking About Lamb of God for a Good Long While”
• Slipknot’s Sid Wilson remixed Lorde.
• Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine claims that his political views have been “misinterpreted.”
• We giggled at metal album covers with googly eyes.
• We checked out the 33 most metal photobombs of all time.
• We were stoked on the debut of not one, not two, but THREE new Obituary songs.
• We were saddened to learn of a man who died as a consequence of a stage dive gone awry.

Have a good weekend, gang. We’ll see ya Monday.