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An E! Online news story from early 2009 reports a bizarre lawsuit (which has since been settled out of court): Bier, otherwise known as Madonna Wayne Gacy, sued [Marilyn] Manson for more than $20 million last year, claiming Manson siphoned off millions of dollars in band revenue. The funds allegedly paid for drugs, assorted Nazi [...]

The Gathering – In Motion #1 Live

From YouTube: Teen wolves descend upon San Antonio high schools

I haven’t written here in a while, been busy. Slackware is back on my machine. I remember someone years ago in a chat room saying that “Slackware eats your soul” and it does. Yet I can’t stand the “easier” ones – I always come back to Slackware. Using the 64-bit version, which gives me more [...]

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I know it is unusual to pick out a single music video in the modern HD world, but I was just way too impressed by the HD quality on Evanescence’s “Good Enough” video as uploaded by AmyLeeRocks4EverHD: Video embedded on xcopfly.com

There’s a song I like to listen to called “Please” by Nine Inch Nails. The chorus comes in with a sharp buzz (including his screechy voice), like a surge of electricity. Every time I hear it, I can feel that I’m inhaling my second wind on a day in high school when I was heavily [...]

Neat video from YouTube. Haven’t followed Tool or NIN in a while, but apparently Maynard James Keenan goes by “Puscifer” now and Danny Lohner uses “Renholder” (this was also a Perfect Circle song about him). Puscifer – The Mission A live version is also available on YouTube: Puscifer – The Mission (Live)

AOL’s metal/hard-rock site Noisecreep released “Best Songs of the 2000s” (click here to see) I think the choices are based on the band more than the song, but check it out anyway.

I have a really excellent CD by a symphonic metal band called Kamelot, it’s called Epica. It came out in 2003 and is a themed album based on Faust. Here is Wander, a great song off the album: Kamelot Wander video clip Apparently it inspired the naming of the band Epica, a similar-sounding goth band [...]