El rumor de una nueva visita a Mx por parte de James, Kirk, Lars y Robert ha sido confirmado en la nota acerca del DVD ORGULLO PASION Y GLORIA, TRES NOCHES EN LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO.

Metallica en su sitio comenta lo grnadioso que fueron los 3 conciertos que dieron a principios del año y nos da detalles acerca del contenido del DVD/BLUE RAY. Seran 18 los temas que conformen el paquete asi como ediciones especiales, este DVD estara enventa solo en algunas tiendas de latinoamerica y en la tienda en linea de la banda.

Al finalizar la nota el grupo dice :

“Y claro despues de pasarnosla tan bien en la ciudad de Mx, no podemos esperar a regresar…, nos vemos pronto en Monterrey y Guadalajara, esten pendientes para mas informacion…”

Con esta declaracion no se descarta que la nueva visita de la banda sea solo en estas ciudades.

Pintaram hoje no site do Metallica as datas de dois shows do grupo californiano no Brasil no comecinho do ano que vem: 28 de janeiro de 2010 – Porto Alegre – estádio do Zequinha, apelido do Esporte Clube São José. E em 30 de janeiro de 2010, a volta a São Paulo – primeiro show da banda no Morumbi.

Outro dia passou na TV uma edição do programa inglês Later With Jools Holland. O Jools entrevistou o Lars, que é o porta-voz da banda. Eu já sabia que o batera era fã de carteirinha da banda britânica Diamond Head (de quem o Metallica regravaria a espetacular “Am I Evil?”, “The Prince” e “Helpless“). O que fiquei sabendo no Later é que por conta desse fanatismo pelo Diamond Head, na adolescência o Lars viajou para Inglaterra para ver a banda tocar.  E acabou passando uma temporada instalado na sala de um dos caras do Diamond Head, é mole?

Men sådär ja! Läser precis att Metallica som i början av nästa år inleder sin sydamerikanska turné kombinerar detta med en avstickare till Europa! Den 13 april bränner dom av i Telenor Arena i Oslo (Biljetter släpps nu den 23 november) och efter detta gör dom även 2 spelningar i Moskva! Nu ska jag hålla stenkoll på om dom även snubblar in i Sverige eller om jag kastar mig över plåtar till Oslogiget. METAL UP YOUR ASS!!!

Metallica podría regresar a México en marzo del 2010

Un diario mexicano asegura que Metallica regresará a México, en la última etapa de su gira Death Magnetic, donde daría conciertos tanto en el Distrito Federal, así como en Guadalajara y Monterrey, durante marzo del 2010.

El periódico Récord apuntó que una fuente cercana a la banda detalló que Metallica tendrá un tour latinoamericano amplio, pasando por Costa Rica, Panamá y regresando a Venezuela, Perú, Colombia, incluyendo a México.

La banda integrada por James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammet y Robert Trujillo, tuvieron gran éxito en la capital mexicana durante sus actuaciones en el Foro Sol, donde tuvieron llenos completos.

La próxima semana se presentará un DVD sobre los conciertos de Metallica en México, titulado “Orgullo, pasión y gloria: Tres noches en la Ciudad de México”.

Orgullo, Pasion y Gloria sera el titulo del DVD que Metallica grabo a principios de año en nuestro pais donde vendran escenas de los 3 conciertos asi como una entrevista realizada por el ex locutor de Radioactivo Olallo Rubio, pero la noticia es el rumor donde se anuncia una nueva fecha para Mexico, Guadalajara y Monterrey el proximo año como parte por su gira en Latinoamerica. En cuanto tengamos mas informacion les mantendremos informados, via SOPITAS

Metallica cumplirá el sueño de sus fanáticos peruanos el 19 de enero de 2010 en el estadio de la universidad de San Marcos. La cuenta regresiva se inicia: es momento de desempolvar las viejas botas metaleras y los polos negros. ¡Seek and destroy!

Si tuviera que resumir mi vida musical en tan solo dos nombres, pues aunque sea la elección tan difícil como el más complejo problema de geometría del espacio -dada la cantidad de bandas y solistas que han hecho mi vida más llevadera- me vería obligado a escoger a Metallica y Pearl Jam. Dos bandas muy diferentes, pero demasiado importantes.

Metallica se metió en mi galería de héroes musicales desde que era muy pequeño. La electricidad y el poder de su sonido llenaron mis oídos con éxito absoluto. La voz de James Hetfield, el poder de los solos guitarreros de Kirk Hammett, el incesante bajo de Jason Newsted (Rob Trujillo no lo hace nada mal hoy en día) y la batería implacable de Lars Ulrich le dieron a mi corazón la dosis de fuerza necesaria para resistir los embates propios de la adolescencia.

Lo de Pearl Jam es otra historia que merece un post aparte y si algún día Eddie Vedder y sus muchachos pasan por nuestro país, pues después de ello podré decir que soy el hombre más feliz de la tierra (musicalmente hablando, claro está). Pero es mejor no desviarse. Prosigo. Metallica llenó espacios en momentos justos. Cuando uno es chico necesita desfogarse y las melodías de los californianos eran el vehículo perfecto para sacar toda la energía reprimida por medio de desaforados gritos y el agitar de la cabeza.

Pero el tiempo ha pasado y James Hetfield ya tiene la barba blanca. Lars Ulrich ya no usa más el cabello largo. Kirk Hammett luce algunas arrugas en el rostro que evidencian el trajín de la vida. Sin embargo, la esencia persiste. El cuero sigue pegado a sus cuerpos. El grito está intacto. Metallica está más fuerte que nunca. Yo ya tengo mi entrada. Me toca desempolvar las botas y seguir contando los días.

Have you ever been to a concert and been so far back from the stage on the floor or in the stands that the musicians looked like little pins on a huge map that you could barely make out?  Me too… and it can be really frustrating.

I must admit, I have had some pretty great opportunities to interview bands, or sit up close from time to time through my years as a reporter and former rock radio DJ, but there is NOTHING like being in the protected area in front of the stage called the “Photo Pit”.   You are actually closer than being in the front row, and protected from concertgoers who might push their way around you while trying to get a good spot to see the band.   Last night, I had the rockin’ opportunity to be in the Photo Pit for Metallica’s sold out show at Madison Square Garden, and I took some great shots to share with you.

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Getting into the Photo Pit area is quite a process, but a really exciting one to be a part of.  First security checks you in, searches you, and has you in a holding pattern in the bowels of the arena where everything sounds muffled and has the charm of an abandoned hospital ward.  Then you are loaded into a service elevator and taken to the main floor where waiting fans are filling the arena with nervous and excited energy.   Because Metallica plays “in the round” which is a stage in the center of the arena, you are led out through the tunnel in the middle of MSG to the stage, and once fans see the photographers being led out in a row… they know that the band is very close to going on.  There are loud hoots and cheers, hands go in the air, the volume of the arena cranks up to 9  (11 is saved for Metallica of course).   Photographers get in position, roaming the area between the barricade and stage like cats pacing for milk.     Once the lights go down, and the band comes out, you have 3 songs only to get as many shots as you can before you are escorted back to the service elevator and led back outside.  That’s right, no free tickets come along with the Photo Pit pass, but once you see the slide show and video clip here, I think you’ll agree, it’s not a bad payoff!

No, that wasn’t an earthquake shaking downtown Albany last night.  It was the sonic assault of the one-time reigning metal gods reclaiming their divinity.  Metallica’s 2-hour show at the Times Union Center re-solidified their status as heavy metal heroes, drawing on a wide variety of songs to please both the old hardcore fans and the newer ones alike.

The darkened stage blazed into a net of laser beams as the first notes of “This Was Just Your Life,” the opening track to their newest album Death Magnetic, blasted out of the speakers.  Singer/guitarist James Hetfield was barley illuminated as he belted out the lyrics, while drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett, and bassist Robert Trujillo danced in shadows around the open stage.  Upon the final notes of the 7-minute song, all the stage lights burst to life, finally giving the crowd a good look at the veteran rockers.  To say the crowd greeted them enthusiastically would be quite understated.  Hetfield whipped the fans into a frenzy between songs, spouting rhetoric about everyone being a part of the Metallica family, blah blah blah…but the audience ate it up.

Following another new song “End of the Line,” long-time fans of the old Metallica got an unbelievable treat – “Ride the Lightning,” the title track of their second album.  And Metallica cranked it out like they just recorded it yesterday rather than 25 years ago (and they probably hadn’t played it live in 20 years at least).

The preamble to “One” featured a monstrous pyrotechnic display as nearly the whole stage erupted in flames, echoing the sounds of war that precede the song.  In my opinion, “One” is about as perfect as a metal song can be, from the beautiful, haunting opening melodies, to the eerie, descriptive lyrics that take us inside the mind of a quadruple amputee who also loses his sight, speech and hearing and is waiting to die, to the final few minutes of machine-gun riffs and wailing guitar solos.  And they played it perfectly.

They played a good number of songs from Death Magnetic, the other highlights being “All Nightmare Long” and “The Day that Never Comes,” both showcasing the band’s return to a much more thrash-metal sound.

Another fantastic surprise for the old fans was “Welcome Home (Sanitarium),” a fantastic blend of beautiful melodies and hardcore metal.

As the set began heading to the finish line, they broke out two of their best – the title track to “Master of Puppets,” for which Hetfield was more than happy to let the audience sing most of the lyrics, and then, taking me and probably everyone by ecstatic surprise, “Battery.”  This is one of the fastest songs they’ve ever recorded, and they played it like they were still in their 20’s instead of pushing 50.  It was astounding…my neck hurts from head-banging.

They closed the set with the overplayed but crowd-pleasing “Enter Sandman,” complete with fireballs and audience sing-a-longs.

They left the stage for a few minutes and came right back with three more oldies: their cover of Queen’s “Stone Cold Crazy,” and then two tracks from their first album Kill ‘Em All – “Motorbreath” and “Seek and Destroy,” and during the latter giant Metallica beach balls rained down from the ceiling and bounced around the crowd.  It was a fitting end to a crazy, fun show that, as I alluded to in my previous post, brought all Metallica fans together.  Hmm, maybe that clap-trap about the “Metallica family” has some merit?

(See the full set list here:  http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/metallica/2009/times-union-center-albany-ny-63d73a87.html)

Prior to Metallica, Virginia’s Lamb of God played for almost an hour, shoving their pounding death/thrash metal down everyone’s throats.  Lamb of God is arguably the best metal band to arrive on the scene in the last decade.  Their riffs are incredibly tight, and singer Randy Blythe’s demonic snarling vocals are a great fit.  I saw them open for Slayer about 3 years ago and they nearly upstaged the speed-metal icons.  Last night they probably recruited a lot of new fans who hadn’t heard them, but they probably also turned off a good chunk of the crowd.  Metallica fans have a diverse fan base, and those who really like more radio-friendly metal probably found Lamb of God a little too intense.  But they played well and Blythe interacted a lot with the crowd.  Unfortunately the vocal mix was not loud enough, making it hard to hear the lyrics.

Opening band Volbeat was pretty good.  Their sound was kind of rockabilly-meets-punk, with a little thrash thrown in.  They were very entertaining, and the sparse crowd seemed to enjoy it.

This Metallica concert gets 4 out of 5 stars!

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Now, get ready for this week’s Top 5 Music Countdown: Rock & Pop Sleep Songs!!

5. “Enter Sandman“
-MetallicaFun fact: I was a big Metallica groupie in high school. My gal pals and I used to drive up to Tahoe to snowboard and rock out to Metallica on the way.

4. “Sweet Dreams“
-The Eurythmics

One of my all-time favorite music videos. Classic. Annie Lennox was the sh**t.

3. “Talking in your Sleep“
-The RomanticsThis is very nostalgic of my days as an MTV kid. Scantily clad ladies ready for bed, FTW!

2. “Dream On“
-AerosmithGuilty pleasure! Evokes fond memories of the carefree, simple days of teenage life.

1. “Sleep the Clock Around“
-Belle & SebastianSometimes all I want to do is sleep the clock around. Like Sleeping Beauty.

Are you tired too? Leave me your list of favorite sleep songs below! Come ONNN, live a little!!

This was a pretty easy one. Record companies bitch about stuff being downloaded over the internet, and Metallica have had their say in the matter as well. The fact of the matter is that if you are great, you are great. Whatever Metallica gives out, I will buy. It is simply because they are the best band out there now, and perhaps of all time.

James Hetfield, king of rock, monster of metal and God...

People talk about The Beatles all the time, as do I, but one has to remember that they didn’t play live. I think that whether a band is good or not is determined by how they play live. Metallica is even better live than on albums. I don’t know any other band where I’d rather listen to a live recording than to a studio album. My love for the band began in 1991, when the black album came out. Enter Sandman was something bone chillingly cool, something I’d never heard before. I can’t remember if we had a cd player back then, but as a kid, 8-9 years old, I didn’t have the money to buy the album. We usually copied vinyls or cd’s to cassette. The whole notion of going to the store to buy an album was a little strange, because I’d never really liked anything the way I liked Metallica. Guns N’ Roses gave out their Use Your Illusion albums the same time, but although I liked them, I never really thought they were as good. They were a little stupid with Axl’s cycling shorts and all that. I was afraid of James Hetfield. I thought he was going to kill me if I ever went to a Metallica concert. I was without any money and raised back then to believe that if you want something, you can only get it on your birthday. Me and my friend used to go to a library that was close to our school and listen to the album there. I remember how they had these cool soundproof rooms, where you could turn up the volume as high as you wanted to. I was a kid growing up and a year was a long time, so naturally when the band took their sabbaticals, I also forgot about them. It wasn’t until about ten years ago when I returned and this time I wasn’t going away.

(Here’s a little taste from their upcoming live DVD.)

It’s the Sick of the Studio ´07 tour. The much anticipated day kicked off around 8 am. That’s when the alarm went off. It was surprisingly difficult to get out of bed, seeing as how this was a day much anticipated. After breakfast me and the missus headed over to the stadium where Metallica would go on stage in just under 12 hours.
The idea was to get there in time, get the passes for the snake pit and then just hang around the general area without having to worry about any queues. This was wishful thinking. We arrived there half a day before the show would start and found hundreds of die hard fans standing in line. Did I mention it was raining? The rumor was that the first 5000 fans would get passes to the “snake pit” the area right in front of the stage. This was where we were headed and nothing would come in our way. We were informed pretty quickly that these rumors were true, but we also learned that we would get them once inside the stadium. This is what I thought might be the procedure but I didn’t want to take the chance of coming too late and being left with a crappy view of the stage. After about 20 minutes of standing at the end of this long snake of a line, something started to happen. Suddenly the line started moving forward and fast. The walking turned into running, the running turned into tackling and elbowing and in just a few seconds it was every man for himself. All desperately fighting for something, not really sure what. Why was the line moving so damn fast? Were they letting us in already? Or was there in fact someone with the passes to the snake pit handing them out to a few lucky ones. The reason for this sudden rush was that the line had to be tightened. Just minutes ago we were hundreds of yards away from the stadium gates, and now we were around 15 yards from those metal gates. My bashing elbows and tackles had worked out great for us. But what now? We were like sardines packed in that line. It was so tight that even talking to the missus demanded great effort. So now it was 7 hrs until the gates would open and the situation we were in sucked ass. Standing in line with a bunch of assholes, packed so tight that their dandruff brushed off onto my shoulders for the next 7 hrs was not how I had planned this day to turn out. But what else would I do? Here’s a chance to see James Hetfield, a guy I have idolized since I was about 9 years old, from a few yards away. On the other hand I could fuck off from this line, go to the Metallica party being held in a bar a few blocks away, and kick back a few brewskies and just chill out. I would have to sacrifice my front row tickets. No way, we came to see Metallica and that’s what we were going to do. Literally. So the next 7 hrs just flew by. Not. It was the worst thing ever. A bunch of drunken kids having a food fight and hitting me in the face with various meats. If the line wouldn’t have been so tight, they would have gotten a piece of my meat hooks. BEEATCH!
5 PM, the line starts moving. The gates are open. “No running!” the security guards scream. Having been in that line all day, standing without moving, knees locked all the time, made it really hard to walk at all. When that line started to move I noticed that my legs just weren’t working. They were collapsing under me. Now everyone was running despite what the guards were shouting. Dammit, I’m not gonna make it. My legs are spaghetti. But I had to move. I need to get in there. I walked through the security checks and through the gates like an injured spider. We almost ran through the tunnel that led out to the stadium field. The light at the end of the tunnel made the experience almost religious. Coming out of that tunnel and on to the field in front of that huge stage was unbelievable. How could all these tickets have been sold out in under 45 minutes. 65000 tickets. I couldn’t get tickets myself. I had to buy black market tickets at four times the cost, but it was so worth it. Even with my legs all beat up. We get inside the snake pit among the first hundred fans. No problems what so ever. –But now what? It’s not like the show will start. It’s still hours until the band takes the stage. We made our way to the front of the stage. It was really crowded and you couldn’t really see anything that close anyway because of how high up the stage was. So we decided to move to the back of the snake pit where we could sit down and chill for a while. I had already purchased my t-shirts and accessories while my wife held our spot in the line, so we were pretty settled. Now my wife needs to pee. We look around and see that there is a peeing section way back on the other end of the field. This is the cool thing about being in the snake pit. As we walk out of there we get the armband that allows us to get back in there. So now we can walk around.

We buy some nachos and pizza slices and eat them while we walk towards the urine section. That might have been the most expensive meal I’ve ever eaten. When we get to where the Porta-Johns are, my wife disappears into one of them. Surrounded by walls of Porta-Johns , in the middle, was a star shaped object made out of five one-man-urinals with their backs connected to each other. –I could pee, I thought and went to do my business. I unzipped and tried to pee, but nothing came out. I looked up and noticed that I am actually trying to pee in front of tens of thousands of people. Some other dudes came and peed in their own urinals, now facing me so close that we could actually kiss without having to lean forward. I couldn’t get a drop out. The line behind me grew bigger. Come on!!! PUSH!!! I thought to myself. Nothing… Finally I just gave up and walked over to my wife who wasn’t so happy with her experience either. As we walked back towards the pit some piece of shit band started to warm up the crowd. I couldn’t care less. All I could think about was whether or not I would manage through the entire concert without having to pee.

A few hours and a couple of bands later, the loudspeakers started to play Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone. This only means one thing for those who know Metallica. The concert was starting. Ennio fades out, the crowd is screaming as Lars enters. He walks behind his drums, hits his cymbal four times and so the concert begins with Creeping Death. Hetfield, Hammett and Trujillo all enter from various parts of the stage. The crowd goes wild.
It’s just after the 3 minute mark of the song. Hammett has rocked his solo and the crowd all know what to do. 65000 fans all start pumping their fists in the air screaming die, die, die, die, die, die, die. It is amazing. Hetfield covers his ears, like the sound of us is making his tinnitus act up. Thank you Metallica.

Max Koljonen at the Cliff Burton memorial in Sweden, summer 2009.

After the 2007 tour the band returned to the studio to polish their album Death Magnetic. This took some time, but eventually the album came out in September of 2008. The album is the band’s fifth consecutive studio album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States, making Metallica the first band ever to achieve five consecutive number one debuts. Metallica went out on a world tour with their new album. I planned a trip to Copenhagen, Lars Ulrich’s hometown and where Metallica would be performing five nights in a row, in July of 2009. I would also be visiting the Cliff Burton memorial in Sweden. On September 27, 1986, during the European leg of Metallica’s Damage Inc. tour, members drew cards to see which bunk of the tour bus they would sleep in. Burton won and chose to sleep in Hammett’s bunk. Around dawn near Dörarp, Sweden, the bus driver lost control and skidded, which caused the bus to flip several times. Ulrich, Hammett, and Hetfield sustained no serious injuries; however, bassist Burton was pinned under the bus and was killed. Hetfield recalls, “I saw the bus lying right on him. I saw his legs sticking out. I freaked. The bus driver, I recall, was trying to yank the blanket out from under him to use for other people. I just went, ‘Don’t fucking do that!’ I already wanted to kill the guy.”
The trip was sort of a success, except for that I somehow got my mother and my sister, who lives in Denmark, to join me and my wife. Now, my car is a 2004 Volvo stationwagon with the deluxe comfort package, but there was no comfort on that trip. Everything I’d planned was voted down by these women in my life. My mother, the dark cloud, couldn’t go an hour without talking about how little money I make and that I should get a proper job. My sister, well… Let’s just say that watching Janice on The Sopranos always gives me Déjà vu. But alls well that ends well. Then I had the food poisoning. The day of the Metallica show. Had some mussels the night before, and spent the next two weeks on the shitter. I was able to pull through and make it to the concert, the first one of the five scheduled. I had around twenty anti-diarrhea pills and they kept it in just long enough for me to get back to the hotel. The concert was great though. Indoor concert, a small crowd and pyrotechnics. I have to say that the Death Magnetic album truly comes to life on stage. The album doesn’t do justice to the raw power of the songs when played live. My wife is not a Metallica fan per se, but she always comes with me because we’re partners and best friends. We were in the front row during Mastodon and Lamb of God, but someone threw a pint of beer on my wife between Lamb of God and Metallica and she threw a fit. She barged away leaving me alone, thinking if I should follow her and check if she’s alright or stay where I was, front row. I had to follow her, and as she came out of the bathroom the music started. Ennio that is. This was such a small venue that even though we decided to hang back, we were only some meters away from the stage. Awesome show. Awesome album. Awesome band. Thank you. Let’s not forget the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Guitar Hero: Metallica. –Thank you again… –SEEEEK AND DEEEESTROOOYYY!!!

Discography:
Kill ‘Em All(1983), Ride the Lightning(1984), Master of Puppets(1986), …And Justice for All(1988), Metallica(1991), Load(1996), ReLoad(1997), St. Anger(2003), Death Magnetic(2008)

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According to the Guardian newspaper this tiny hot dog stand, Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur, in a car park on the harbour front in Reykjavik sells the best hot dogs in Europe.

It claims Bill Clinton and James Hetfield are customers.

They are the sort of hot dogs that it only takes three big bites to eat and then you order another hotdog.

… and then you seriously consider a third.

Whatever time of day we passed it, there was a queue. And a queue consisting of the weirdest mix of people. Boozey youths, glamourous older couple, lonely fat blokes, stag parties, businessmen. Everyone eats here. We did. Twice. And we were only in Iceland for two nights.

burp.

Nå, ja, nyt og nyt – jeg vidste det i hvert tilfælde ikke:

JAMES HETFIELD IS PROUD METALLICA’S MUSIC WAS USED TO TORTURE GUANTANAMO PRISONERS

Metallica frontman James Hetfield recently told German-language TV network 3sat that part of him was proud the U.S. military chose the band’s music to torture prisoners at U.S. detention centers in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay. “It’s strong; it’s music that’s powerful,” Hetfield says. “It represents something that they don’t like—maybe freedom, aggression… I don’t know… Freedom of speech. And then part of me is kind of bummed about it that people worry about us being attached to some political statement because of that. We’ve got nothing to do with this and we’re trying to be as apolitical as possible, ’cause I think politics and music, at least for us, don’t mix.” Watch the interview below. And for more Hetfield, read “the Best of the Rest” of Revolver’s recent Metallica interviews, right here.

Hehe…

Na łamach Mojej Artyki pojawił się człowiek, który jest autorem znakomitej większości jednego z najlepszych (a może i najlepszego?) albumów death metalowych w Polsce Anno Domini 2009. Człowiek będący w tym momencie liderem z prawdziwego zdarzenia i wyrazistym frontmanem grupy Lost Soul, która uraczyła fanów ciężkich brzmień doskonałym albumem Immerse in Infinity.

O kim mowa? Oczywiście o  Jacku Greckim.

Zechciał on poświęcić mi trochę czasu i odpowiedzieć na pytania związane m.in. z nowym albumem zespołu, sprawach wokół niego, o inspiracjach Lost Soul jak i o inspiracjach własnych. Gorąco zachęcam do lektury.

Robert Bronson: O Lost Soul przez cztery lata było cicho. Tymczasem zespół powrócił w 2009 roku z materiałem, który pozamiatał tegoroczne premiery starszej konkurencji. Na czym polega wielkość Immerse in Infinity?

Jacek Grecki: Moim zdaniem wielkość tej płyty polega na innego rodzaju inspiracjach, niż w przypadku większej części zespołów spod płaszczyka z napisem Extreme Music. Działamy na całkiem innej płaszczyźnie świadomości życiowej, a muzyka jest odzwierciedleniem naszej egzystencji. W mojej opinii nie jest to płyta stricte techniczna, czy nie wiadomo jak brutalna. Ta muzyka ma w sobie dużo piękna. Gdy wciągniesz się głęboko w wir słuchania, możesz poczuć się jak dyrygent kosmicznej orkiestry symfonicznej . Zanim powstały pierwsze dźwięki na Immerse… w mojej głowie tworzyły się pewne obrazy. Na ich podstawie powstawały dźwięki, może to właśnie komponowanie na podstawie wyobraźni jest kluczem do klimatu i astralności naszej nowej płyty.

RB: W zespole doszło do wielu przetasowań. Czy jako lider i twórca Lost Soul, nie bałeś się, że tego typu roszady mogą negatywnie wpłynąć na klimat przy tworzeniu nowego krążka? Czy nowym muzykom Lost Soul łatwo było odnaleźć się w zespole?

JG: Nowym muzykom było bardzo łatwo, wspólny język, podobne zainteresowania, gusta muzyczne, szacunek do różnic i jeden wspólny cel – Lost Soul. Jak słychać na płycie, jak widać na materiałach video, te zmiany to strzał w dziesiątkę. Dostałem fantastycznego kopa do pracy nad zespołem, czuję się swobodnie i w końcu mogę w pełni pokazać, na co mnie stać. To wszystko również dzięki temu, że mamy nowy skład, więc nawet, jeśli na początku nowej działalności jakieś obawy istniały, to najpierw unicestwiała je wiara, że wszystko będzie super, a z czasem te obawy rozwiewane były przez dźwięki na próbach. Wtedy już wiedzieliśmy, że będzie masakra i jest .

RB: Grecki, napisałeś właściwie całe Immerse in Inifnity. Tym samym wykazałeś nieprzeciętne umiejętności w konstruowaniu muzyki jak i w pisaniu liryków. Czemu Twoje nazwisko nie jest na ogół kojarzone nawet wśród fanów ciężkich brzmień? Czemu, Twoim zdaniem, Lost Soul pozostaje właściwie w metalowym podziemiu?

JG: Zacznijmy od tego, że napisałem również cały Chaostream, 95 % Ubermensch i 95% Scream of the Mourning Star (wcześniejsze płyty zespołu – przyp. RB), poza tekstami oczywiście. Teksty też mógłbym pisać wcześniej, ale Adam się za to wziął i tak już pozostało. Jak chce, niech ma – tak o tym myślałem. Czemu nie jesteśmy kojarzeni ? Bo ja wiem jak się do tego odnieść ? Czuję, że mamy całe mnóstwo fanów i sądząc po wstępnych wynikach sprzedaży nowego krążka, nie czuję się jakoś specjalnie podziemny . W ogóle – te rozgraniczenia podziemny, nadziemny – to tak jak rządowy, antyrządowy, religijny i antyreligijny… nie myślę tymi kategoriami, dlatego też podziemie ani „nadziemie” muzyczne dla mnie nie istnieje. Liczy się tylko muzyka, którą dzielisz się z ludźmi. Jeśli jest przynajmniej jedna osoba, która szaleje za tym, co tworzysz, wówczas czujesz radość i wiesz, że twoje działanie ma sens.

RB: Gdzie szukać inspiracji dla Lost Soul? W klasycznych death metalowych bandach czy raczej stanowicie melodię przyszłości?

JG: Chciałbym, żebyśmy stanowili melodię przyszłości. Będę do tego dążył i w tym kierunku zamierzam rozwijać się jako kompozytor i autor tekstów. Jednocześnie bzdurą byłoby odcięcie się od tego, co muzycznie już stworzono. Mam swoje inspiracje, które na pewno miały wpływ na to, jaki sposób czy też, jaką technikę komponowania obrałem pisząc muzę dla Lost Soul. Przede wszystkim jednak każdy z nas jest ambitny i choć to nie zawody, my chcemy być najlepsi – niby to głupie – ale taka chęć, przy naszym potencjale twórczym ogromnie mobilizuje nas do działania, a na tym korzystają fani, bo mają czego posłuchać i czym się inspirować. Inspiracja do życia jest bardzo ważna dla wielu z nas, a my chcemy być jednym z wzorów. Wszystko więc łączy się w całości, zbiorowości. My mamy coś do przekazania, jeśli fani to poczują, będzie po prostu chemia. Grający i słuchający powinni być jednością. Do tego będziemy zmierzać i tak widzę przyszłość.

RB: Z drugiej strony: wśród jakich wokalistów Ty czerpiesz inspiracje? W końcu jesteś właścicielem jednego z najmocniejszych gardeł a.d. 2009.

JG: Od lat moim wzorem był James Hetfield, zarówno jako wokalista i frontman, jak i gitarzysta oraz kompozytor. Od kiedy pamiętam ten koleś nie miał najmniejszych problemów ze śpiewaniem pod trudne riffy, przejąłem to od niego i jestem mu wdzięczny. Ostatnimi laty również Attila Csihar stał się dla mnie pewnym wzorem. Moim zdaniem Attila jest na poziomie „odczuwania” muzyki, a nie tylko samego grania czy słuchania. Dążę do takiego stanu i po Immerse in Infinity czuję, że jestem blisko.

RB:Jakie są plany zespołu na najbliższy czas? Trasa koncertowa czy raczej chwila oddechu po premierze krążka?

JG: Przygotowujemy się do wiosennych koncertów, szykujemy wypasiony merch (od koszulek, przez bluzy i swetry, po kubki i szczoteczki do zębów). Cały czas jest co robić. Co chwilę jakiś wywiad, coś do załatwienia, ćwiczenia na instrumentach, wsparcie wytwórni w promocji, czy też w jakimkolwiek innym działaniu, a mimo to jest czym oddychać . Natomiast nie ma oddechu dla Agnieszki i Barta z Witching Hour Productions. Oni żmudnie i konsekwentnie pracują nad marką Lost Soul w Polsce i na świecie, szykując promocję w różnych krajach i trasy koncertowe. Do zobaczenia na tej polskiej!

W tym momencie wypada tylko powtórzyć za Greckim: do zobaczenia na polskiej trasie Lost Soul!

Hit!: Gene Simmons (left) looks simply divine in a lemon yellow ensemble equally at home in the boudoire or whipping up a shitwich in the industrial grade fast food kitchen

Whoo wee, girlfriends!—you know there’s nothing more satisfying than dishing the dirt on celebrity fashions. It allows you set aside such trivialities as the quality of an artist’s work to focus instead on their wardrobe choices as filtered through the lens of your own bad taste. The World-Class Shitty sales & marketing department suggested today’s post, believing that it would “dovetail” well with WCS’ already established mandate of reviewing CDs we’ve never listened to by major label shit-floggers. They also used the word “synergy” a couple of times, but by that point I was paying more attention to the heartburn I had contracted from the sickening 99 cents a slice pizza the cheap fucks at WCS Corporate served at the lunch meeting.

Axl Rose—Diss!

Axl’s get-up of white nut-hugging bike shorts topped with a matching white leather jacket with the sleeves pushed up Sonny Crockett-style seems like it should be a winner. Unfortunately, this photo was taken in mid-September and wearing white after Labour Day is a serious fashion faux pas.

James Hetfield—Hit!

If you follow the world of fashion as closely as Hetfield and I do, you’ll know that black is the new black. You’ll also know that sculpting your facial hair to look like a flying v is unimpeachably metal. When you factor in Hetfield’s increasing resemblance to the hillbilly who showed poor Ned Beatty some some ’southern hospitality’ in Deliverance, you know he’s got it goin’ on!

KFC’s Famous Bowls—Hit!

The most hygienic thing about the KFC Famous Bowls is probably the matted dreadlocks, and the t-shirt with the weed-smoking rasta skull is stone class.

Liam Gallagher—Hit!

Liam Gallagher actually has his own fashion line, which is like Coco Chanel having a Brit-pop band that wrote sing-a-long anthems for lager louts. Here we see Gallagher modeling a fetching Mao-esque smock. The Mao-smock also doubles as an apron and is available with “Kiss The Cook!” emblazoned on it for whipping up shitwiches at weekend backyard barbecues.

I’m going to be on vacation for the next 10 days or so, so consider this video my out of office auto reply:

El cantante de Metallica, James Hetfield, llegó a Madrid, probó el jamón y dijo que quería llevarse uno a Los Ángeles. “Le comentamos”, cuenta Fernando Delgado, de la discográfica que acompañó al grupo, “que lo más sensato era filetearlo, para así no tener problemas en la aduana. Pero insistía: ‘Quiero la pata entera’. No hubo forma de hacerle entrar en razón”. Fue a El Corte Inglés, se compró un gran jamón por 500 euros y lo metió en la funda de su guitarra. Delgado: “Iba camino del avión con la funda en la mano. Y dijo: ‘¿Tú crees que alguien va a registrar la funda del guitarrista de Metallica?”. Nadie se atrevió.

- Sacado de Dandoporculo vía El País