New Track From NAS & DAMIEN MARLEY Collaboration Distant Relatives

The Track Is Called "Land Of The Promise". It's pretty awesome.

Nas & Damian Marley featuring Dennis Brown - Land Of PromisebyHypetrak

My Thoughts On The Death Of Pete Steele

It goes without saying that the death of a prominent musical figure usually produces a tidal wave of people saying how much they always loved the band. I can't say that about Type O Negative but I can say that about Pete Steele. My introduction to Steele's music was in a giant room on the upper west side, the apartment of my then best friends Josh and Jason Diamond.

It was early 1990 and one of them had secured a tape of the "new Pete Steele" project called Repulsion. I remember thinking it was cool the tape was green but other than that I was kind of new to Steele and his music. One of the two put on the first Carnivore record and I flipped out. I remember the song "Carnivore" when Pete ended a line screaming "I LOVE TO EAT PUSSY" and I thought that this guy was awesome. I also dug his voice.

Then the Repulsion tape went in and I loved that music just the same. I really, really thought I was going to become a lifelong fan. Later Steele changed the name to SubZero but had to change it again because there was already a hardcore band with the same name who, ironically enough, I had been friends with for awhile. Once Type O Negative established themselves they released The Origin Of Feces which was pretty much the Repulsion tape.

As subsequent Type O Negative records came out I became less interested in the band. I know it's blasphemy but I just don't care about gothic metal at all. I could lie here and say that I had all their albums but I didn't, to be honest I didn't really like their style of music. I did go and see Type O live a bunch through the nineties because no matter what you thought of the music live the band kicked a lot of ass.

As the years went on I had the chance to meet Pete a few times, worked with the band on putting Type O music into the film Nosferatu as well as seeing a few Carnivore reunion shows. One of those reunion shows ended up with my sprawled on the floor after being whacked in the face with a large side of raw beef. Through all of that what I always liked about Pete was his honesty, his ability to show suffering in a genre that relied on everybody being a testosterone idiot playing fast.

If the genre called for fast, Pete played slow. While everybody screamed about satanic this and that Pete sang in a low drawl about love and Gothic chicks. Pete was king of giving the middle finger to what the "genre" wanted and doing his own thing. He also loved to fuck with people and his honesty about everything including himself was legendary. In a world and a genre so filled with ass kissing dickheads. Pete was a seven foot tall breath of fresh air. Let's also not forget the motherfucker could play an upright bass like a normal on with it looking weird.

Pete was harsher on himself than anybody else could be from his music to his body. Over the years he had cleaned himself up and returned to writing music, something that he was driven to do. Sadly everything caught up to Steele and he passed away from heart failure. There are so many people in metal that deserve to die Limp Bizkit, ICP, Phil Anselmo, the list goes on.

When a guy who really did move the genre forward gets taken from us like Pete or Dimebag it not only hurts us but also the music world. I hope Pete's looking down now, drinking a beer and laughing his ass off. I also hope he's tuning up a band with Dimebag, Phil Linot, John Bonham and all the other greats who are no longer with us.

RIP Pete Steele, you will be missed.

Random HANK WILLIAMS SR Video Just Because He Kick Ass

Hank Williams SR is the fucking man!! If you doubt then views this:



If you still doubt then you're a moron.

B.P.R.D. KING OF FEAR Preview

With issue #4 of B.P.R.D.: King of Fear hitting stands in a few short days, details have been released saying that Liz Sherman will be given a most fucked up vision about the end of the world while Abe Sapien discovers his role in it by finding the link between himself and the frog monsters.

As King of Fear nears its end, more fucked up shit will happen to the heroes in the B.P.R.D. with the final two issues of the series acting as the final chapter of the Scorched Earth trilogy that began in 2008 with B.P.R.D.: The Warning and the end of the Plague of Frogs, which began clear back in 1994 with Hellboy: Seed of Destruction! Check out the two ill images.




It's funny, as time goes on I've become a much bigger fan of BPRD than Hellboy alone.

New PREDATORS Featurette

WHY THE HELL AREN'T WE IN THIS? NONE OF US HAS ANYTHING BETTER GOING ON!!

I'm not much of a fan of Robert Rodriguez and even less of a fan of everything dealing with the Predator series post the original. However I've seen some cool footage and a great trailer for Rodriguez's upcoming Predator movie "Predators" and so far I'm on board. This is a little featurette that includes interviews and some new footage. Worth watching.

Ever Wonder What SOUTH PARK Would Like In Real Life?

This little Comedy Central Commercial actually makes me want to see a live action South Park if only to watch kids curse and act like little dicks. I've not been a huge fan of South Park as of late but when something's funny, it's funny.

LOST GILLIGAN'S ISLAND MASH UP SHIRT!!

I haven't watched Lost, basically because I'm waiting for it to be done and then watch all of it on the big DVD with Sara. However my working knowledge of the show gives me enough to know this shirt kicks major ass. Gilligan and the Skipper fucking with the "hatch", pretty rad. Here's a better shot of the graphic:



Jump on over to TEEFURY to buy one

INSANE CLOWN POSSE JUGGALO Friendly Textbook

I was feeling kind of low this morning and then I found this video and Juggalo textbook and now I feel better. Why? Well for one I'm not in the Insane Clown Posse and two I'm not one of their Juggalo fans. However the main reason is this video where two guys named Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope lay out how mad fresh the like world is bitches. This is the video for "Miracles" and it's the most ridiculously inane thing I've ever seen. In fact after the video I'll give you some of my favorite lines from the song.





FAVORITE LINES:

"Hot Lava, snow, rain and fog/Long neck Giraffes pet cats and dogs"

"I've seen shit that will shock your eyelids"

"I fed a Pelican a fish at Frisco Bay/it tried to eat my cellphone he ran away"

"Music Is All Magic, you can't even hold it"

"Fuckin magnets how do they work"

"I don't wanna talk to scientists, y'all gettin me pissed"

"There's magic everywhere in this bitch"

My God the unintentional comedy here is amazing. However check out the Juggalo Friendly Textbook from a "lyin scientist" who wanted to explain science Juggalo Style.



Thanks to BOINGBOING for the heads up.

New Movie Trailers That Look Cool

So a few movie trailers hit that actually look like decent fils, figured I'd share them with you. The first is The Disappearance Of Alice Creed a psychological, kidnap, sexy, British thriller. If nothing else at least you can watch the smoking hot Gemme Arterton doing cool shit.




Now the awesome trailer for Ong Bak 3:




And finally a trailer for The Other Guys. Yeah this looks really stupid but I laughed three times in the trailer and as much as I don't want to I love Will Ferrell. It'll be a total afternoon wasting popcorn movie but fuck it, it looks like fun.

SOUTH PARK Takes A Crack At TRON

Okay I'm a big Tron fan and not a big South Park fan (after season 4 it just stopped being clever) but this is fucking funny. The Episode, titled "You Have Zero Friends" finds Kyle, Cartman and Kenny making Stan a Facebook page against his will and after becoming overrun with friend requests and so forth Stan tries to quit but gets sucked into the virtual Facebook world. Here's a clip:




The entire show is available at Southparkstudios.com for viewing