Who said the metal heads from Megadeth don’t have a sense of humor?

To celebrate the release of their new album Th1rt3en and Halloween, Dave Mustaine & co. decided to dress up and actually play some songs in their Halloween outfits. Funny and cool

Sin7sins is a Dutch metal band, or a goth/cyber/nu-metal formation as the sticker on their debut CD proclaims.

On Eastern Day they played in the Baroeg as part of a four band line up on Leaves’ Eyes tour and they put on a good enough show to persuade me to buy their CD and give it a try.

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A concert is of course best experienced live. You can’t ‘get’ or feel a concert watching it on TV.

But if you can’t be present in person, then the next best thing is to watch it on TV. At least you have a good view at the performers on stage instead of looking at the back of people’s head.

In my previous post I wrote about the package of the Big Four Live LE box set and the box itself looks good. The big question is, is the concert itself good as well?

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In the early 90s I got introduced to metal and was immediately hooked. Main heroes from that period were Metallica amongst others and Slayer and Megadeth also soon followed.

But with the progressing age of these iconic bands, the music of these once metalgods started to decline.

Slayer pretty much still does what they did 20 years ago, playing it loud and fast. But especially Metallica makes mediocre crappy rock music nowadays.

But sometimes something happens that reminds you just how good these bands used to be and why they’re regarded as the founders of the trash metal genre.

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A hilarious cartoon clip. Just watch it