Definately Metallisuck

I have been listening to Slacker radio all day today and hearing some pretty cool new music here and there. I was really excited when the song "My Apocalypse" off the new Death Magnetic release from Metallica came on. I have been really scared to listen to anything off this album since it came out.

I am really sorry I even listened to it.

Metallica has just NOT been good since the release of "...And Justice For All". I know everyone thinks the "Black" album was their shining moment, but I disagree. I actually didnt care for the "Black" album all that much. It had a few decent songs on it, but just did not have the raw power, killer rifts, or crushing drums of previous releases.

Two things have happened in the history of Metallica that caused them to spiral downhill for me.

1) The death of Cliff Burton
2) They cut their hair off.

Metallica's sound completly changed after Cliff passed away and Jason Newstead came into the band. I did still enjoy "...And Justice for All" even though I felt it was not on par with the previous albums. Really take a listen to "Kill 'Em All", "Ride the Lightning", and "Master of Puppets". Listen to the way the music flows together and just assaults you. Then listen to "...And Justice for All". The music no longer flowed as one. It had that chop chop bass sound that Newstead used during his Flotsom and Jetsom days. It changed the way the band worked when he joined.

Everything after this point has just gotten worse and worse. There was high hope for "Death Magnetic" and from the sales figures I am in the minority here. If the rest of the release is anything like My Apocalypse...no thank you.

I shall continue to refer to you as Metallisuck when speaking of anything after "Master of Puppets". I wish they would just hang it up and call it done. It is as if all their power came from the hair. Once that was gone, so were they.

If you want to hear how a song called My Apocalypse should sound...go listen to Arch Enemy and the song of the same title.

The man, the legend - Neil!

Found a great interview/article today on one of my favorite singer/songwriters...Neil Diamond. Yes you did read that correctly. I cant help it. Neil is the man!

Neil Interview

Actually it is quite funny to be sitting here reading an article about Neil Diamond while I have some Lamb of God playing on my Ipod. Oh wait, it just switched to a little Venom.

Anyways...great article and after reading the interview I know now why I think Neil is one of the class acts out there. Never takes his career for granted, nor the fans. I have had the pleasure of seeing him live 4 times now and each show is simply amazing. I even took my wife to a show once, and she wasnt really into him. Yup, she is a fan now.

I am looking forward to this weekend!!!

I am very excited about this weekend. To start the weekend off the little man, Drew, has a "parents night out" function at his Tae Kwon Do school. This is where we get to drop him off from 7:00pm to 10:30pm to play games, eat pizza, and we get to go do something just the two of us. So what are we going to do with our 3 1/2 hours of togetherness? Why, we are going to go sit at Barnes and Noble so that Jayna can study for her HR test tomorrow. We are going to get coffee, she is going to study, and I am going to wonder around and see if there is a book I can convince myself to read.

Tomorrow morning we are going to have to get up at 6:30 so that Jayna can make it to her test by 8:00. I know what you are thinking and I agree...6:30am on a Saturday is JUST NOT RIGHT! For the sake of honesty I must admit that Jayna is absolutely terrible about getting out of bed on time. That means that I have to get up in time so that I can force her out of bed so she can be on time. Once I do this there is no way I am going back to sleep. So I might as well get up, make coffee, and get in some Warcraft play time or something.

After her test we are going to go pay for the rest of Drew's birthday party (which is coming up in a couple weeks now). Then we are going to head home, do some work around the house like fixing the dog area in the garage, clean up the living room, and try to make the house look not so cluttered.

Saturday night is going to be a blast. I am going to take my wife out on an actual date night. Drew is going to spend the night at some friends house so mom and dad are going out. I think we are going to do something like dinner and then bowling! Bowling and beer. White trash night here we come!

Sunday will be spent sleeping in! Well okay, not really sleeping in since we do have to go get Drew at some point. We are actually really funny about getting a whole night to ourselves. We will go out to eat, get to bowling and about 30 minutes into it we will both be missing Drew. It actually takes effort to NOT just go pick him up and head home.

Sunday night I have a hockey game but since it is a late game I think Jayna and Drew are going to stay home.

I love the weekends I dont have to work. Especially the ones where I get to go out with the wife!

Yo, get my party on and stuff.