The News Review:
- Firewind: The Premonition – Music Review
- Metallica puts the metal back in Metallica
- Activision Reveals the First Guitar Hero Metallica Trailer
- Headbanging Like Totally Harmful
- Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
- Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
Firewind: The Premonition – Music Review
HotIndieNews.com NY
While my sister was listening to Menudo and my mom listening to Sonny and Cher I was listening to Iron Maiden Motorhead and DI. Yea I had my head on straight! I missed those days of gut wrenching melodic metal. Sure bands have come along since and have attempted the style but tend to fail miserably. Nothing can beat the style grace and musicianship of that metal genre and no band has really captured that true essence of what metal REALLY is.
Metallica puts the metal back in Metallica
San Francisco Chronicle USA
tmpl –>As recently as four months ago you had to wonder if Metallica still had it. Even before the band’s worst album “St. Anger” came out three years ago members seemed more passionate about fighting Napster than making good music. Then the behind-the-scenes documentary “Some Kind of Monster” showed their very human and frequently whiny failings. If the hardest-rocking band on the planet is seeing a therapist named Phil isn’t it already over?.
Activision Reveals the First Guitar Hero Metallica Trailer
Gametactics
The game is due out sometime in 2009 in North America. Click VIDES above to download the trailer streaming version coming soon!We’d like to invite you to spend the holidays with one of the greatest heavy metal bands in history – Metallica. “Ride the Lightning” and join Metallica the greatest metal band of all time and musicians selected by the band including Alice In Chains Foo Fighters and Queen in an all new Guitar Hero experience — Guitar Hero Metallica. Grab your friends and feel the intensity and skill of Metallica’s music as you shred guitar rip on drums and wail to songs that span the band’s illustrious career. Guitar Hero Metallica’s set list is comprised of over 45 explosive metal and rock hits from Metallica and other legendary artists that are performed in venues reminiscent of the band’s epic album covers themes from their music and real world locales. Guitar Hero Metallica will be available for PS3 Xbox 360 Wii and PS2.
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Headbanging Like Totally Harmful
New York Times United States
” Now a medical study conducted by an Australian scientist suggests that the heavy-metal practice of headbanging to fast music can cause head and neck injuries The Guardian reported. In a study published in The British Medical Journal Andrew McIntosh an associate professor at the School of Risk and Safety Sciences at the University of New South Wales writes that flailing along to a headbanging song (with an average tempo of 146 beats per minute) can cause “mild head injury when the range of motion is greater than 75 degrees”; at faster tempos the risks can range from headaches to strokes. The study concludes that listeners can reduce the risk of injury by wearing protective gear headbanging to every other beat or “replacing heavy metal with adult oriented rock.
Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Los Angeles Times CA
You couldn’t do that back then. You could only imagine that. What this game allows you to do is physicalize heavy metal music. You can do battle with this dramatic dangerous music as your score. It’s a real wish-fulfillment game for me. How is working in games different from in movies? Black: It’s exciting to me because it’s still relatively new. It’s an art form that hasn’t really reached its potential yet.
Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
Los Angeles Times CA
"The fact that the film is set in New Jersey didn’t hurt either. Mansell wanted an instrument that could reflect the grittiness of the setting and the character even if the ultimate sound was soft. "He loves his metal music and he lives in New Jersey and all those things started pushing me toward the fact that the guitar might be the instrument that represents this character’s voice. "Mansell is the go-to composer Aronofsky. The two first worked together on Aronofsky’s first feature-length film "Pi. " Typically Mansell and Aronofsky begin plotting the music before shooting begins. In the case of "The Wrestler" the idea of using a simple guitar score wasn’t easily arrived at.