Here's the link.

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A Melbourne death metal band's lead singer and merchandiser were killed when their mini-bus crashed on the Pacific Highway, north of Coffs Harbour, earlier today.

The Red Shore were on tour with US band All Shall Perish at the time of the accident.

Earlier reports claimed members of All Shall Perish were involved. But a spokeswoman for touring agency Destroy All Lines has confirmed the mini-bus was not carrying the US band.

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All Shall Perish and The Red Shore performed in Brisbane last night and were due to play in Sydney tonight as part of the Christmas Carnage tour.

I think it's going to be a long, long time before we can match that.

They looked about as fucking metal as a Korean car.

As evidenced here:



Note the skinny jeans, hoodies, Chuck Taylors and "ironic" trucker caps. It's like they were trying for The OC casting party gig.

(Christ, was the "photographer" shagging the bassist? "My girlfriend's a photographer - she's like, joined the Lomographic society and shit. Shit's got this wicked little camera called a Holga that, like, takes these artistic shots, but she can also do digital with her Nokia.")

It used to be policemen - now you know you're getting old when members of death metal bands look about 14...

THEY'RE NOT FUCKING METAL! THEY'RE HARDCORE!

That means they know powerchords and how to scream off-key, using ironic mic distortion.

They're not fucking hardcore!! That's an insult to such serious hardcore acts like Sick Of It All, Agnostic Front and Madball (to name but a few of the top acts).

Those bands mentioned in the article are MTV-ised "metal" or "hardcore" acts. Just like those MTV "punk rock" bands (and yes, the quotes are very much neccesary) have no relation to real punk music, these acts have no relation to real metal and hardcore.

Edit: looking up the bands, they're not actually mtv-ised as such, but they're still pretty bad, and bare no resemblance to real hardcore, dammit.

They are not metal, they are not hardcore. They are just a bunch of stupid dropouts.

They psyclone has it right. Just listenend to the bands i linked to if you want to sample some real hardcore.

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
They psyclone has it right. Just listenend to the bands i linked to if you want to sample some real hardcore.

I will! Thanks.

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"ironic" trucker caps

Lord, I'm old. I mean, I get it, but it all just fades into a single blur of 'you look stupid, arsehole, which is OK, but you're trying NOT to, which is precisely why you do (look stupid), and that is not ok'.

Back when I cared about how I dressed, I had two modes: neatly restored vintage Gary Cooper/Jimmy Stewart/James Mason 'formal casual wear', or 'Mr. Rogers neutral'.

Now I just try to distinguish between PJs and street wear.

By the way: is there such a genre as 'whorecore'? You know, like really over-the-top, um, 'thrash-Britney'?

Oh, and Gromit: that is probably good for the rest of the year as 'most ironic' goes.

Only 22 shopping days until Doomsday...

I have thought Brittney is poised to do a disney send-up of an angry white grrl for a while now. Sort of "Bikini Kill" meets "Madonna."

She'd bank on it.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
I have thought Brittney is poised to do a disney send-up of an angry white grrl for a while now. Sort of "Bikini Kill" meets "Madonna."

She'd bank on it.

Britney is aging (poorly) very fast. Given her basic lack of talent, I think it's over for her.

People still listen to Steven Tyler.

(Who, incidentally, and ironically once said: "If men bled, would tampons be free?")

That's nostalgia. I don't know how Brit can live long enough to even make the nostalgia circuit.

I'LL NOT HEAR AN UNKIND WORD ABOUT THE TYLER!

Dude managed to spawn Liv.

God knows how, though.

Ah, granted, the Red Shore actually got some good guitar work going on - and, as is standard, let down by getting someone from the Cookie Monster Appreciation Society on vocals.

The usual story.

I believe it was the Boog who said "learn to sing and play guitar. At the same time."

Which means, in metal, if you go lookin' for some lungs, you'll get the human version of the blue Muppet with a more fixated addiction to crunchy bakery goods than Oprah, or a chick who listens to Evanescence. Don't ask me how I know these things.

Some people somewhere have died here people. A little, you know, whatever...

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Originally posted by lithos:
I'LL NOT HEAR AN UNKIND WORD ABOUT THE TYLER!

Guy can actually sing, too. I'm no Aerosmith fan. Only thing I cared for them was the opening 'dream intro' for Sweet Emotion and, ironically enough, their big comeback album with the trucks humping. ('comeback'...hmmmm)

But the dude has pipes and doesn't shy of pushing himself through them full throttle, sometimes with a lot of heart it seems.

And Liv is like a pedophile's dreasm all grown up. She's what Lolita looked like in Nabokov's mind. (No, I haven't a youth fetish. I go for older babes nyself. Just sayin...)

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Originally posted by UberDog:
Some people somewhere have died here people. A little, you know, whatever...

Die, sucker, die. People die every day. By the hundreds of thousands. Most of them more painfully, I'll wager, than these dopy joes.

But not EVERYONE dies and makes it to Gromit's Irony Thread.

Show some respect, dude.