In Which We Weren’t as Big as Metallica

 WORST WEEK EVER PLAYLIST, March 17 – March 21, 2014

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And now, this week’s top stories:

• Vince explained why there will never be another metal band as big as Metallica.
• Speaking of Metallica: they premiered a new song, “The Lords of Summer,” live, and then in demo form.
• Arch Enemy announced that vocalist Angela Gossow was leaving the band, and will be replaced by Alissa White-Gluz from The Agonist. Then they debuted their first song with both White-Gluz and new guitarist Nick Cordle (ex-Arsis).
• Machine Head’s Robb Flynn vented about the current state of the music industry.
• Thy Art is Murder and Touché Amoré both celebrated the death of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.
• This Indonesian presidential candidate is a self-professed fan of Metallica, Megadeth, Lamb of God, and Napalm Death.
• Courtney Love  located the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370! And then she solved several more of history’s most baffling mysteries!
• Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter hotboxed a car and discussed the band’s next album.
• We played with heavy metal Legos.
• We are seriously considering purchasing former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes’ ’87 Pontiac.
• We announced the next two volumes of our FREE NYC Sucks compilations, featuring some of New York’s best metal acts!!!

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