antiMusic reports: Our very own Billy Gamble month, fresh off their Grammy win. He spoke with Kerry King about their outing with Unearth, the current state of metal, their Grammy win, Dave Lombardo and why Slayer never followed metal trends. Here are a couple questions from part one of the special interview.
antiMusic: Tell me about your thoughts I thought it was cool for my dad because yah know he's proud, but for me kind of music they're voting for. I think there is probably 25, 40% of people who actually have an idea of what metal is and I think they're 60, 75 percent of people who pass the category and say, "Metal, Slayer, heard of them, cool." I'm glad they did it, yah know hey, it gives me something cool to say "Yeah I won one of those.
" Not a lot of people in the world can say that, from that aspect it's cool, but I'd rather have awards that educated metal fans voted for. antiMusic: Do you guys ever feel pressured to change your sound to fit in with modern music? ** Kerry King: Not is what we like to do.
We were very fortunate when we decided what we were going to do 20 some years ago, we found something we dug and we didn't have to change what we do to be popular. [see full story for the rest of TMZ reports: TMZ has learned that the LAPD James Blunt and supermodel Petra Nemcova, and have officially classified it as a "hit and run." According to several witnesses, James drove A rep for Blunt tells TMZ that, despite reports to the contrary, the person run over "wasn't a fan" and says, "It two MPH trying to navigate his way through them.
.. They were invading his space.
He was just trying to quietly leave the party." She adds that James is "looking into the matter and will cooperate." [see the full story for BBC reports: US rapper Foxy Brown has claimed at a beauty store in Florida last week.
She held a press conference at a Baptist and resisted an officer. She claimed she was dragged half-naked make a movie spanning three decades in the music business. Scorsese, 64, who on Sunday won the best director Oscar for "The Departed," will direct "The Long Play" and work to produce the film, Paramount Pictures said on Tuesday.
[ see full story for more - so much for the Departed Too, then again who would star in that?]- Blabbermouth reports: A live album by rock fans not to buy it. Ian Gillan said the album, recorded in Birmingham and titled NEC 1993, was one of their worst ever concerts and it had been re-released without his knowledge.
Sony BMG said it was recalling the album and would investigate why Gillan was not told about its plans. [see full BRUTALITY's upcoming U.S.
tour, which is scheduled to kick off on March 7 in West Palm Beach, Florida. In addition to David Ellefson, TEMPLE OF (BELLADONNA, KILLING MACHINE) and vocalist Todd Barnes (13-A). [see full Blabbermouth reports: METALLICA has posted "On Tuesday, February 27th all of the promotional that were on the DVD.
