Slayer Confirmed For Gods Of Metal Festival
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Los Angeles thrash metal legends SLAYER have been confirmed for the Gods of Metal festival, set to take place June 27-29, 2008 in Bologna, Italy. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:
Friday, June 27:
IRON MAIDEN
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
Saturday, June 28:
SLAYER
CARCASS
MESHUGGAH
TESTAMENT
AT THE GATES
Sunday, June 29:
JUDAS PRIEST
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
MORBID ANGEL
ENSLAVED
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences members have nominated SLAYER for the band's third Grammy Award. The SLAYER track, "The Final Six", from the group's 2007 limited-edition "Christ Illusion", was nominated in the category of "Best Metal Performance."
"The Final Six", written by Tom Araya and guitarist Jeff Hanneman and produced by Josh Abraham, is a chilling look at an hypothesized end of the world. The song made its debut last July as the "Single of the Week" on MySpace where it has since accumulated some 750,000 plays, an astounding number for a song that received no commercial airplay.
"When I first got the word, I thought someone was playing a joke," mused Araya. "But obviously, we've made an impression on the industry. The people at the upper levels have taken notice of what we've done, and that's awesome."
SLAYER's two previous Grammy nominations were for 2002's "Disciple" from the album "God Hates Us All", and last year's "Eyes of the Insane", for which they took home the Grammy Award.
Source: Blabbermouth
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65 Comments on "Slayer Confirmed For Gods Of Metal Festival"
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6. writes:
Carcass alone would be awesome! I love every album put out by them. Necrotism is one of their best and think "Corpral gigsore quandry" is the greatest example of death metal perfection! "Blackstar" off Swan song is a beauty and pray to the metal gods they do a full on reunion.
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8. writes:
this isnt helping a7x realize that they're not metal. if their egos were bad before, i'm not anxious to see what fag shadows and co. are like now that they've been dubbed "metal gods". dammit iron maiden, you could have picked any band to tour and you picked them. bastards.
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20. writes:
THIS SETUP IS FREAKING SICK, THE LEGENDARY THRASH MONSTERS SLAYER, GRINDCORE LEGENDS CARCASS, HEY THEY SHOULD HAVE ADDED NAPALM DEATH, MESHUGGAH, THE KINGS OF MATH METAL, IS THINK IT IS, TESTAMENT, ANOTHER LEGENDARY BAND, NOT BETTER THAN SLAYER, BUT STILL COOL, LOTS OF GOLD RECORDS THEY'VE PUT OUT, THEY SHOULD HAVE WENT PLATNIUM, IN MY OPINION, AT THE GATES, WHICH IF I'M RIGHT HAS ANDY LAROCHE OF KING DIAMOND, NWOBHM LEGENDS IRON MAIDEN, NOW LET'S LOOK AT SOMETHING FOR A SECOND, WITH WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRON MAIDEN, DON'T GET ME WRONG THEY ARE A GOOD BAND BUT, USUALLY WHAT I HEAR, THEY DON'T USUALLY PLAY OLD SONGS, AND CLASSIC, EVEN IF SOME, BUT MAINLY THEY PLAY MOSTLY THEIR NEW STUFF, WHICH IRON MAIDEN I THINK AIN'T WHAT THEY USE TO BE BACK THEN, BUT THEY ARE A GREAT BAND AND I GOT RESPECT FOR THEM, A7X, THEIR OK, HOWEVER EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MADE OF OLD BAND MEMBERS LIKE NIKKI SIXX OF MOTLEY CRUE, I NOT VERY MUCH UP TO DATE WITH A7X, I'M MOSTLY OLD SCHOOL, JUDAS PRIEST, ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN METAL, AND ALSO ONE OF THE BEST NWOBHM BANDS, THEY HAVE MY FAVORITE VOCALIST ROB HALFORD, NOW WE ALSO HAVE THE CLASSIC YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, AND DEATH METAL LEGENDS MORBID ANGEL, I LIKE THEIR OLD STUFF, I DON'T REALLY CARE FOR THE NEW STUFF, ANYWAY, GREAT BAND, AND LAST ENSLAVED, I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM, OUT OF ALL THE EXTREME METAL I KNOW, WHY HAVE I NEVER CHECKED ENSLAVED, I'VE HEARD OF THEM, BUT NEVER LISTENED TO THEM, SINCE IT WAS BROUGH UP, I GUESS I'LL CHECK IT OUT, MAN I WISHED I WAS IN ITALY, BUT I'M IN VA, CRAP, ANYWAY, I HOPE THIS GETS ON DVD
NOW PLAYING: FROM MY COLLECTION OF 195 CDS:
CRYPTOPSY: CROWN OF HORNS
21. writes:
BUT IF I COULD HELP THIS FESTIVAL OUT, AND TAKE OUT A BAND, IT WOULD BE A7X SINCE THEIR ARE NOT REALLY METAL, I MAY HAVE SAID THEY WERE OK, BUT I DON'T CARE FOR THEM, ANYWAY FROM WHAT THEY SOUND LIKE, LIKE POST 16 JRIZZLE SAID, AND I AGREE WITH HIM, THAT THEY WOULD RUIN A METAL FESTIVAL, SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED THAT IN LAST POST, REALLY THE ONLY REASON I SAID THEY ARE OKAY IS BECAUSE THEY GOT OLD BAND MEMBERS, ANYWAY, I NEVER REALLY LISTEN TO THOSE GUYS ANYWAY, THEY SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED OBITUARY
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22. writes:
FYI: it's easier to read when everything is not in caps. And also Nikki Sixx is not in A7X, the newest project is Sixx A.M.
A7X really doesn't even fit the bill, even a fan would be able to see that (which I absolutely am not). It just doesn't make sense and it may be a way to get some of the "scene" kids out to see some real f***ing music. I don't know, it's poor booking and managing on their part in my opinion. I mean at the Gates and Carcass reuniting for this and they have to play with this over produced, wannabe, 80's band.
I do think this is a show that Metallica should be on, even though their newer material (of the last, what, 15 years or so?) is crap. They still have made great waves and are a household name and originally got some people into metal. They're more of "legends" than a few of these bands, if not most...probably are too expensive and doesn't fit the budget.
24. writes:
WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, THIS IS HOW I ALWAYS DID THINGS, IDK WHATS PEOPLES PROBLEMS WITH CAPS, I'M TRYING TO BE NICE RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT TRYING TO SOUND MAD BUT, WHY DO YOU ALWAYS QUESTION ME ON CAPS LOCK, I'M NOT YELLING, OR ARGUING, AIN'T LIKE, I'M TRYING TO DO DAMAGE, PLUS THAT'S MY IDENTIFICATION, SINCE NO ONE ELSE DOES, BUT I SEE NO PROBLEM, I'M TRYING TO RESOLVE THIS PEACEFULLY, I NOTING THIS NEXT PART OF THE MESSAGE CAUSE THIS AIN'T MEANT TO SOUND MEAN, BUT IF YOU WANT TO QUESTION ME, OR FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THAT I'M NOT TRYING TO CAUSE PROBLEMS, I GUESS THAT'S YOUR OWN STUPIDITY, CAUSE REALLY I SEE NO PROBLEM WITH USING ALL CAPS, PLUS IT AIN'T AN ENGLISH SESSION, I GRADUATED FOUR YEARS AGO IN 04, SO DON'T USE GRAMMAR AS AN EXCUSE, SINCE PEOPLE STILL GET THE MESSAGE, AIN'T LIKE I'M DOING SOMETHING FOR A JOB, OR FILLING OUT A REPORT, SO WIGGLES, GIVE ME A GOOD EXPLANATION, AND I SHALL CONSIDER IT, LOOK I'M NOT A BAD GUY, BUT I CAN BE YOUR BEST FRIEND OR WORST ENEMY, YOUR ACTIONS DECIDE, AND I WANT THIS TO GO PEACEFULLY SO, THERES NO PROBLEMS, I PROMISE TO ANSWER TO YOU AFTER YOU WRITE AN EXPLANATION
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25. writes:
Snake, it really is kind of hard to follow you in all caps. I know its your signature to use caps, but we can read you better in normal text. Your screen name in caps is great, but everything in caps is kind of hard to understand. We are just trying to tell you that if you want to be heard it would be just as well if you wrote normal. We are not attacking you as I am sure you know how we get when we do attack people. Maybe something at the end of your message would be a happy meduim? Like my example below.
~Kali~
26. writes:
lol i can be your best friend or best enemy! and u know how we get when we attack people?lol u people r so bad a$$ on the internet we can bully u with words! just cracks me up like your really gonna hurt someone or their feelings? get a life, and please dont gang bash me dont think i can take the words lol u douchebags!!
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41. writes:
yeah...this snake guy is a dumbass....some young guy who doesn't even know metal...and it is annoying reading caps it is much easier and quicker reading messages not in caps...caps put a strain on the eyes...but anyway...show sounds awesome! f*** avenged sevenfold....not metal at all! just some f***in "in the scene" band...and also...meshuggah is definately not a metal god....this should have (if some people were still here) metallica with cliff, pantera, slayer, opeth, maiden, priest, morbid angel, cannibal corpse, testament, crowbar, megadeth, anthrax, iced earth, obituary, hypocrisy, sepultura with max, death, vader, destruction, shadows fall would be a great band for this bill too i think, and then other bands that i don't feel like listing because it would take the rest of my beer drinking evening away...well, people thanks for your time reading this...not like my words matter much...but that's opinions for ya!
42. writes:
WTF SHUT UP SPARKY, I DON'T REALLY LIKE A7X, THE REAL DUMBASS IS YOU I GRADUATED DID YOU LITTLE BOY HELL NAW, I ADVISE YOU TO SHUT THE F*CKING H*LL UP BEFORE I TRACK YOU DOWN, AND BEAT YOUR GOD D*MN A**, THEN CARRY YOUR DUMBA** BACK TO SCHOOL WHERE YOU BELONG, YEAH I GOT MOST OF THE BANDS YOU LISTED, THEY WHAT YOU LISTED ARE MY MAIN INFLUENCES, I NEVER SAID MESHUGGAH WAS A METAL GOD, TO THINK OF IT A7X AIN'T METAL, I'M MAINLY OLD SCHOOL METAL, NO NEW STUFF, IF SO ONLY FEW, ANYWAY IF YOU GOT THE BALLS TO TALK SH*T ABOUT ME, COME AND FIGHT ME, SINCE YOU WON'T WIN, AND ON THE BOARD I'VE LISTED METAL BANDS, ESPECIALLY THE ONES YOU'VE LISTED, I BET I KNOW MORE BANDS THAN YOU AND, I'M MORE METAL THAN YOU, SO SHUT UP, I BET IT'S FUDGE, HEY SKANK, LEAVE ALONE BEFORE I BRING IN DEATHBRINGER, BESIDES I DON'T TYPE IN CAPS NOW, BUT I'AM RIGHT NOW CAUSE I'M ANGRY A**HOLE, IF YOUR FUDGE IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SHUT YOU UP, I'M GETTING DEATHBRINGER, F*CKING PANSY A** B*TCH, EVERYONE THAT KNOWS ME KNOWS I'M MOST LIKELY THE BIGGEST METAL HEAD THEY'VE EVER MET, AND YOU DUMBA** IS TALKING SH*T LEAVE ME ALONE, BEFORE I GET EVEN MORE FURIOUS AND SEND YOU A VIRUS, ANYWAY SUCK MY d*** LOW LIFE B*STARD fa**ot, GO BACK AND HAVE AN ORGY WITH YOUR MOM, DAD, AND SIBLINGS, A**HOLE, WAIT YOU CAN'T HA HA HA!!! YOU HAVE NO d***, SO SUCK MY BALLS, THEN GO GET F*CKED BY MICHAEL JACKSON, YOU DUMBA** QUEER, SO SHUT UP IF YOU DON'T STOP HARASSING ME SINCE I DID NOTHING TO YOU, I WILL GET DEATHBRINGER AND TRACK YOUR B*TCH A** DOWN
P.S. SUCK ON THIS, B*TCH
8=======================================D
43. writes:
TELL THIS COWARD TO SHUT UP, SPARKY (LIKELY AKA FUDGE) IF THIS PUNK DOES'NT LEAVE ME ALONE, I'M GONNA TRACK HIM DOWN AND BEAT HIS SORRY A**, HEY FUDGE THOUGHT YOU QUIT, OH YOU COULDN'T LAST A YEAR, YOU QUEER, IF YOU WANT TO DO NOTHING BUT PICK AT ME COME TO VIRGINIA, SO I CAN BRUTALIZED YOUR A**, I GOT PEOPLE BEHIND ME THAT SAW YOUR DUMBA** HARASS ME, SO NOW IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SHUT YOU UP
44. writes:
Hi all ... well shud be a great concert ... iron maiden played the first gig in india and i cot them at mumbai ... wid their old song list they were amazin as usual... dyin to c judas priest.. am old school so slayer, carcas. testament & morbid angel shud be gr8 fun...not to forget Yngwie... why the hell dnt these ppl give ticket details etc.on their site in english man ,, it sux...
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48. writes:
yeah...ok, snake....i'm from virginia too...what part are you from maybe i'll pay ya a visit...who threatens people online? to answer that question "p***ies"...guarantee you wouldn't be talkin that sh** if i was standing in front of you...and who's the dumbass? that message i wrote...only the first part of it was for you...so, why are you even saying anything about avenged sevenfold or whatever? that was just my comments on the festival....so, anyway...as much sh** as you talk makes you sound like the dumbass? what's up with this fudge sh** anyway? and by the way...i did graduate from school...sh** i don't even need to say anymore...this is dumb...later man...i'll come visit you if you like...just post where your from...we'll keep in touch...
49. writes:
one more thing snake...you know music, huh? well, for one, nikki sixx is not in avenged sevenfold....and apparently you think avenged 7fold is ok....yeah...you sound like a metalhead...and apparently you haven't stopped typing in caps cuz there is not one message written without caps on this entire f***ing page...damn, why do i waste my time....i've got a job and i'm engaged...my life is going to well for this kind of petty nonsense
52. writes:
HA, SCARED IF YOU WERE IN FRONT OF ME, SUCK MY D*MN D*CK A**HOLE, I DID NOT SAY I WAS CRAZY FOR THEM, PLUS I MUST HAVE BEEN READING SOMETHING ELSE, CAUSE NIKKI SIXX AIN'T FROM AVENGE SEVENFOLD, (JUST FOUND OUT), AND I REALLY DON'T NEED THEIR ALBUMS, YA I'M FROM PORTSMOUTH, SO COME ON DOWN B*TCH, I WOULD LOVE TORTURING YOU MEDEVIAL STYLE I KNOW MY MUSIC SO SHUT UP, AND SUCK MY F*CKING BALLS, PLUS HOWS YOU WIFE DOING PUNK, (HATE PEOPLE WHO MESS WITH WOMEN THE WRONG WAY) ANYWAY HOPE THIS P*SSES YOU OFF SH*TBAG, WATCH YOU BACK, I'M BIGGER THAN YOU, YA I ALSO KNOW MY MUSIC, JUST GO TO MY MYSPACE, AND I BET, I KNOW MORE METAL THAN YOU, SO GET LOST, OR GO TO HELL
55. writes:
ON BEHALF OF CALLING ME A P*SSY, YOUR MAMA IS A P*SSY, JUST LIKE YOUR CATHESTRATED DAD, I DON'T LISTEN TO AVENGE SEVENFOLD, REALLY, I CAN PROVE I KNOW MY MUSIC, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE OPENED YOUR MOUTH, CAUSE WHAT YOU THINK IS WRONG LOOK AT MY OTHER FORUMS, YOU'LL SEE THEN I'M A BIG TIME METAL-HEAD, BOY ARE YOU GONNA FEEL STUPID, JUST GET SOME P*SSY AND SOME JOHNNIE WALKER YOU'LL FEEL BETTER
56. writes:
oh good...you're from portsmouth?...i'm moving to suffolk soon...i'll see ya...and again...what the f*** is with this fudge sh**? don't even know what the f*** that means....most of the sh** your talkin sounds idiotic....and i think you need to learn how to spell castrated....and yeah...i don't like johnnie walker...i like crown royal, jack daniels or some wild turkey...so, how bout some of that? ok...i'm done with your ignorance...
57. writes:
my apologies, i have anger problems, but i don't care for a7x, and fudge was a guy that harassed me, out of ignorance, and i mainly saw you for something else, yeah crown royal is good, wanted to try cask no#16 i don't know what sparked the arguement, except for you saying i'm stupid, which i know my metal, so please drop it, like i said if you look at my myspace, you would feel dumb, cause i know my metal, don't believe me, my myspace proves it, think i'm wrong, which i'm not, wanna put money on it, i'm telling you i know more metal than you, im just mixed up sometimes
p.s. my apologies
59. writes:
how can anyone say they know more metal than someone based on what i have written? more ignorance i guess? i've been a metalhead for years beyond you....and the thing bout ya myspace...how am i supposed to look at that when i don't even know what the url is? and thank god your not typing caps! ok...later
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61. writes:
and the thing is...there are people that will know more about one band than another...depends on what kind of sh** you like...just like you thinking that nikki sixx was in avenged 7fold...you know...i mean....my expertise would be on bands like metallica, pantera, corrosion of conformity, down, damageplan, crowbar, cannibal corpse, morbid angel, soilent green, eyehategod, alice in chains, acid bath, slayer, nevermore, opeth, shadows fall, etc...you may know more about other bands....who knows...
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62. writes:
O-O! Wow! I am very confused.... why are all of the comment's left by Snake from diffrent i.p addy's? Sparks, Snake my type in cap's alot, but the last comment he left (in a diffrent thread) was not as we have talked to him about it.
Slaytanic, might you have been a member on the Dimmu Borgir fourms?
64. writes:
actually i know taste comes from within, i besides metal which is number one, i also listen to classic rock, punk, blues, country, bluegrass, i've been a metalhead for 8 years and i also play in a band, i'm mainly old school metal, i only like a few bands that are recent, cause to me, music ain't what it used to be, and actually i'm starting a band called ODIUM, in latin it means hatred my metal influences are slayer, (got all their albums, and got kerry kings signature guitar which i'm tricking it out with his settings, plus emg-ab and fernandes sustainer), morbid angel (early morbid angel, the david vincent era, trey azagthoth claims to be a vampire and cuts himself and drinks his own blood), death, (long live chuck) napalm death (grindcore fathers), carcass, benediction, bolt thrower, obituary, sodom, destruction, kreator, nile, pantera (long live dime), judas priest (rob halford favorite vocalist), black sabbath (tony iommi, and ozzy lot of credit, without these guys i probably would'nt be here), candlemass (doom fathers), trouble, deicide (hail glen benton and the hoffman bothers), cannibal corspe (used to have glen benton on vocals, the guy who burned a cross on his forehead), cryptopsy (lord worm's the man), at the gates, atheist (forgot the bassist name i think it's roger rest in peace man), early metallica (rest in peace cliff burton, he did not deserve to die the way he did, crushed under the tour bus) early megadeth (dave mustaine, classic, used to play for metallica), king diamond, (used to play in a good band called mercyful fate, anyway great band) iron maiden (as much as i like bruce d***inson, he had no reason to disgrace ozzy at ozzfest), anthrax, prong (tommy victor also plays for danzig), danzig, brutal truth, stormtroopers of death (basically anthrax cause of the lineup, had included ian scott of anthrax), overkill, sepultura (max rocks) the list goes on, i know so many bands from so many different genres, and i have well used to have 195 cds, til i accidently shattered may sepultura chaos ad album, now only have 194, my collection is a mix of metal, classic rock, and blues, maybe even some punk, so i know what i'm talkin about, i think from every musician you can learn something from all of them, somehow
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65. writes:
No paragraphing or capatalization in a post like that = not read.
For your information Snake, Andy LaRocque from King Diamond was never a member of At The Gates he simply performed a guest solo on the track cold from SotS. However, Andy did produce the album "Sidereal Journey" by ex-At The Gates member Alf Svensson who ATG have talked about getting back for some shows, so there ya go!
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1. 7dustrulesall writes:
Can someone please tell me why in the hell avenged semenhold is on this "Gods of Metal" festival. I dont understand how they are allowed to be in the same country.....