Dave Abbruzzese Speaks Out Against Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Snub

When the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame announced their list of inductees, legendary Seattle rock band Pearl Jam were one of those bands to be inducted but with one catch: three former drummers would not be inducted with the band.

Ouch.

Former Pearl Jam drummers Jack Irons, Matt Chamberlain, and Dave Abbruzzese will not be inducted into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame despite spending significant time with band. The most shocking snub is Dave Abbruzzese, who was the groups second drummer. While Abbruzzese didn't play on the band's biggest album, their debut album Ten, Abbruzzese did play on the two subsequent albums Vs. and Vitalogy, which were also successful records.

“As the original ballot is created, the members of each eligible band are determined by largely who was present and active during the most influential recording years," Abbruzzese said in a Facebook post, "I’m not sure how 275+ live shows and 38% of record sales doesn’t fit their criteria… “

Dang.

"Pearl Jam has always seemingly had a perceived level of integrity and has been known to stand their ground & fight the good fight," said Abbruzzese on another Facebook post, "but it seems the allure of being given this trophy is just too important for them to take a stand."

Similar controversy arose in 2009 when Metallica was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, because original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine was not inducted with the group. Mustaine co-wrote several songs that would later appear on Metallica albums, though he never played on any of their albums after being fired for drugs and alcohol abuse.

The ceremony will take place April 7th, 2017 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Other inductees will include Journey, Yes, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Baez, and Tupac.

H/T - Blabbermouth

Nine Inch Nails Release Heavy New Track 'Burning Bright'

Earlier this week Nine Inch Nails announced a new EP, Not the Actual Events, set to be released this week and on Wednesday the band released a track from the new disc called 'Burning Bright'.

The new Nine Inch Nails song goes back to the bands Industrial-Metal roots, and puts that into overdrive. Kinda like Ministry. The song itself is pretty cool and simple and could easily be mistaken for the ending credits of a horror movie, or a leftover from the movie Blade.

Sweet.

The video itself is reminiscent of something you might see as background during a NIN concert during it's performance, though it's just a bunch of static.

Regardless, it's good to see Nine Inch Nails going back to their roots. The group created a niche in the late eighties/early nineties with their blend of industrial metal. Albums like Pretty Hate Machine (which featured the single Head Like a Hole) and The Downward Spiral (featuring songs like March of the Pigs) and their live concerts made the group one of the most innovate acts of the nineties.

The groups millenial records such as Hesitation Marks featured less heavy guitars, if at all.

MTV Posts Most Racist Video YET: '2017 Resolutions For White Guys'

MTV News posted a fake news video on Tuesday called 'Resolutions for White Guys'. The video was basically a list of resolutions for stereotypes that were created by the media. The original description reads "Hey, white guys: we came up for some New Year's Resolutions for you, some of which include Black Lives Matter, Beyonce, Kanye West, and more!"

It's bad. REAL Bad.

"It's a about to be a new year. And here's a few things we think you could do a little better in 2017. First off, try to recognize that America was never great for anyone that wasn't a white guy."

So basically America sucks for everyone who isn't white. Got it.

"Can we just agree that Black Lives Matter isn't the opposite of All Live Matter," says another young woman, "Black Lives just matter, there's no need to over-complicate it."

All Lives Matter includes BLM, so what the heck is she talking about? Of course, Black Lives Matter has also been linked to violent attacks on white people and police officers. Regardless, using a weak, psuedo-intellectual safe spacer as a face for a racist cult doesn't erase what the George Soros funded Black Lives Matter movement has done to divide the country.

"Stop bragging about being woke. Stop saying woke."

 After it's release, the 90-second video of ignorance received so much backlash the former music channel had to remove it.

Metal Hammer and Classic Rock Magazine Cease Production

Team Rock, the parent company of Metal Hammer and Classic Rock magazine (among others), have announced that they are bankrupt and all production will cease on those magazines and their former employees will not be paid for the month of December.

Say What!?

According to the last post on teamrock.com, "The Company is being managed on a care and maintenance basis only whilst a buyer for the assets is sought. Accordingly, the TeamRock website will be unavailable for the foreseeable future. The administrators are assessing the position regarding publication of magazines. If you are a subscriber to the Company’s publications the administrators can be contacted via email at teamrock.subscribers@frpadvisory.com."

“Today, 73 members of the Team Rock staff were told that the company is going into liquidation and that they are being made redundant with immediate effect with ZERO pay,” said Orange Goblin frontman Ben Ward in a statement, “These are good, hard-working, committed people that through Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Prog Rock, TeamRock Radio and more, have supported the rock and heavy metal scene in this country for decades and now we, the rock community, need to pull together to help give something back.”

The Orange Goblin frontman started a crowdfunding campaign to help the former employees who suddenly are without a job and paycheck. The campaign has almost doubled it's initial goal.

Sweet..Sort of.

Team Rock has been the source of several articles featured on the Anarchy Radio blog and we were also an affiliate of their online store. They were one of the better music blogs on the internet.

H/T - NME

Abnormally High California Support Gives Hillary Clinton Popular Vote Win

It's been over a month since the election took place and Donald Trump won handedly. But more data keeps coming out about the election that rocked the world. This new report shows that Hillary Clinton only won the popular vote because of the abnormally high amount of Hillary Clinton voters in the state of California, where she won with over 60% of the vote, a higher number than the 53% in other states that she won.

Paging Jill Stein.

"If you take California out of the popular vote equation," says Investors Business Daily, "then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes."

Regardless, now that the election is over Democrats are calling to overturn the system that they had previously won, but no longer control. Citing the Hillary Clinton popular vote win, celebrity Michael Moore publicly offered to commit felonies by paying any electoral college member who shifted their vote away from Trump.

Crazy.

When Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump if he would accept the election results, he probably should have been directing that question at Democrats. The smug, arrogant group that thought they could fuse Hollywood and Politics to garner a stranglehold on the highest political office in the country failed, and they failed BIGLY.

Donald Trump won thirty states by an average of 2.5%. Donald Trump also won 3,084 of the 3141 counties in the United States. If California wasn't counted (which may happen next election via #CalExit), then Donald Trump would  have won the popular vote, as well.

Thanks California.

The loss might not be squarely the fault of Hillary Clinton, though. Since Barack Obama has taken office in 2009, Democrats have lost a massive amount of representatives across the United States.

Now that she is not going to be president, Hillary Clinton is definitely welcome to run for Governor of California (not really), but she might be met with disdain after rumors that the DNC stole the primary win from Bernie Sanders.

H/T - Infowars

Nine Inch Nails To Release New EP 'Not The Actual Events'

Nine Inch Nails announced today that a new EP, Not the Actual Events, would be released on Friday, December 23rd. The five track EP will be their first release since Hesitation Marks, which was released in August of 2013.

Cool.

Nine Inch Nails became both the face of Industrial Metal and one of the iconic bands of the nineties after releasing The Downward Spiral in 1994. The single Closer is one of the decades most popular songs and Hurt was eventually covered by Johnny Cash.

Around 2009 frontman Trent Reznor announced Nine Inch Nails would be going on hiatus. Between the announcement and the release of Hesitation Marks in 2013, Reznor and new NIN member Atticus Ross worked on the score for films like The Social Network, for which they were nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar award, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

“It’s an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make, said Trent Reznor, "It’s an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story.”

Nine Inch Nails also announced they will be reissuing their catalog in the upcoming months.

First the band will be releasing a limited edition vinyl of The Fragile and a 4 LP set called The Fragile: Deviations 1, which includes 27 tracks featuring instrumental versions, alternate versions, and unreleased tracks from the 1999 release The Fragile.


H/T - TeamRock

Grammy Nominations: Megadeth, Metallica, Korn Nominated For 2017 Grammy Award

The 2017 Grammy Awards announced the nominees on Tuesday and while hard rock and heavy metal was left out of the major categories, the academy nailed some of choices in other categories.

Or not.

Megadeth has been nominated for a Best Metal Performance award for their single Dystopia. The thrash metal icons released the Dystopia album back in January and it is some of their finest work.

Korn has been nominated for a Best Metal Performance for their single Rotting in Vain. The nu metal icons recently released Serenity of Suffering, their second release with Brian 'Head' Welch back in the fold.

Metallica has been nominated for a Best Rock Performance award for their single Hardwired. The thrash metal icons released their long-awaited eighth studio album on November 18th with a music video accompanying every song.

Highly Suspect has been nominated for a Best Rock Performance award for the single My Name Is Human. This marks consecutive years the band has been nominated, as they were nominated last year for their album Mister Asylum (Best Rock Album) and the song Lydia (Best Rock Song).

More nominees from the bands you care about:

Best Metal Performance

Baroness, “Shock Me”
Gojira, “Silvera”
Korn, “Rotting in Vain”
Megadeth, “Dystopia”
Periphery, “The Price Is Wrong”

Best Rock Performance

Alabama Shakes, “Joe” (Live From Austin City Limits)
Beyonce Featuring Jack White, “Don’t Hurt Yourself”
David Bowie, “Blackstar”
Disturbed, “The Sound of Silence” (Live on Conan)
Twenty One Pilots, “Heathens”

Best Rock Song

David Bowie, “Blackstar”
Highly Suspect, “My Name Is Human”
Metallica, “Hardwired”
Radiohead, “Burn the Witch”
Twenty One Pilots, “Heathens”

Best Rock Album

Blink-182, California
Cage the Elephant, Tell Me I’m Pretty
Gojira, Magma
Panic at the Disco, Death of a Bachelor
Weezer, Weezer

Best Alternative Music Album

Bon Iver, 22, A Million
David Bowie, Blackstar
PJ Harvey, The Hope Six Demolition Project
Iggy Pop, Post Pop Depression
Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool

H/T - Loudwire

Megyn Kelly On Mainstream Media: '(People) Need Us'

Megyn Kelly/NPR

Megyn Kelly appeared on NPR promoting her new book and during the course of the interview she talked about why the public needs the mainstream media.

(They don't).

Everyone knows the mainstream media is a group of untrustworthy, deceitful, lying dividers that are doing more to harm the country, than good. Well that last part might be my opinion but whatever. Megyn Kelly says it's the complete opposite.

"People, as much fun as it is to hate us, people need us," proclaims Megyn Kelly. "People need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is — whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump — and we're in a dangerous phase right now, where too many millions of Americans aren't listening at all to what the press tells them. That concerns me."

No, Megyn, people hate you because they think you are biased. Plus, we think you and the mainstream media are confusing yourselves with 'strong, skeptical journalists'. You are propaganda artists. You are repeaters. You are not journalists. Yellow Journalists, maybe.

H/T - Mark Dice

Dimebag Darrell Murdered Twelve Years Ago Today (RIP Dimebag Darrell)

Today makes twelve years since the senseless murder of former Pantera/Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell. The legendary guitarist was gunned down while on tour with Damageplan in 2004.

And it still stings.

"Dimebag" Darrell Abbot grew up in Texas, the son of a Carolyn and Jerry Abbot (a record producer/country musician) which is where the Abbott brothers must have scored some of their musical talent.

Jerry Abbot owned the recording studio (Pantego Sound) where young Darrell started doing piano overdubs for other artists as an intern, though he was still a fan of KISS and Van Halen.

“I grew up a heavy metal kid and we are a heavy metal band,” Abbot told Guitar World in a 1994 interview “I know it’s not fashionable, but I’m proud to say that’s what we are and that’s what we do. It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an ‘alternative band.’ Well, dude, they can join the pack, but we’ll remain true to our roots while shit keeps twisting around us.”

Dimebag Darrell first gained notoriety as guitarist of the metal band Pantera, along with brother/drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, bassist Rex Brown, and singer Phil Anselmo.

Pantera made a "breakthrough" in 1990 with Cowboys From Hell, their first album with Atco Records after self-releasing four albums. Cowboys from Hell surprisingly charted at 117 on the Billboard charts.

Pantera went mainstream when their third major release Far Beyond Driven became the first metal record to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 charts. 

Pantera would go on to sell 500,000 copies in two months based on relentless touring and a loyal fanbase, but with virtually no radio play at the time.

By the year 2000 the band was experiencing a decline in record sales, though they were playing arenas (not clubs) all over the world.  Older and now hugely successful, the passion from Pantera members seemed to have declined some. 

With Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown seemingly focused on smaller projects, Dimebag put together DamagePlan with brother Vinny Paul, Bob Zilla and singer Pat Lachman.

DamagePlan carried a little more excitement than the last couple of Pantera albums did, but musically DamagePlan could not live up to the worst Pantera album, a credit to why people still talk about Pantera, and how good Pantera was.

Damageplan was touring small clubs to promote their debut album New Found Power when a show in Columbus, Ohio changed everything. As soon as the concert began, a man named Nathan Hale burst from behind a wall of amps and immediately took aim at Dimebag Darrell, shooting him in the back of the head and instantly killing him with a Beretta 9mm handgun. 

Hale then began shooting other members of the crew before putting drum tech John "Kat" Brooks in a headlock and taking him onstage as a hostage.

The police arrived less than 180 seconds later.

James Niggemeyer was the first officer on the scene and crept into the club with no backup, only a 12 gauge shotgun. 

"I could see he was holding a hostage around the neck and still had a gun, so I knew that I didn't want that hostage to be killed," Niggemeyer told MTV. "When he put the gun to the hostage's head, it became a now-or-never scenario: Do I let him shoot the hostage in front of everybody? Or do I take what I feel is the best shot to try to keep the hostage from being killed?"

Officer Niggemeyer knew he had a hard decision to make.

“I knew from that distance I could shoot the suspect, as long as I aimed high enough and wouldn’t hurt the hostage,” Niggemeyer also told MTV News in 2005. “At that point, almost immediately, I fired.”

While more deaths were avoided thanks to the fast acting officer, the tragedy is still felt today by metal fans, bands, and even the former police officer.

 In 2011, officer Niggemeyer left the Columbus police force and has since admitted to having PTSD and anxiety as a cause of the incident.  Meanwhile, Vinnie Paul and the remaining members of Pantera are still not on speaking terms.

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