SEVENDUST at The Powerstation (Auckland, April 23rd 2019) [F]

•April 24, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Saw Sevendust live last night and they were fantastic ((AND MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING))

These gentlemen are overwhelmingly underrated (damn I have fine taste).

Setlist: Black, Pieces, Reconnect, Praise, Denial, Dirty, Dead Set, Waffle, Enemy, Angel’s Son, Shine (Encore): Bitch, Face To Face.

Game of Thrones Anime Opening

•April 14, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Malec made a fun anime-style animated opening sequence for Game of Thrones and even turned the show’s opening theme into a Japanese rock song: GAME OF GAME OF GAME OF GAME OF THRONES!

Music and Jilted Generations Mark UK Funeral Procession of Prodigy Frontman Keith Flint

•March 30, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Dance music played out for the hundreds of fans who flocked to the town of Braintree in eastern England on Friday for the funeral of Keith Flint, former frontman of the Prodigy:

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Renowned for his facial piercings, heavy makeup and eccentric devil-horned hair cut, Flint played a major role in establishing the credibility of dance and electronic music.

The funeral procession followed a 2-1/2-mile path to St Mary’s Church and while the church service itself was reserved for friends and family, Flint’s bandmates had invited fans to line the route to “raise the roof for Keef!”

Fans have launched a petition to have a statue of the late singer erected in Braintree. According to the petition, which has amassed almost 9,000 signatures, residents of the town want “to pay homage and honour its most famous son.”

25 Year Anniversary of THE ELDER SCROLLS

•March 25, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Bethesda.net is commemorating a quarter century of Tamriel and
the community that calls it home with a whole host of special gifts, sales and more!

My sister introduced me to MORROWIND back when and it was a terrific gaming experience. Come to think of it, I wonder if the only reason she showed me was for name-calling purposes, so I would feel her insults, N’wah! You s’wit! Stoopid! Filthy dark-elf piece of shit Khajiit loving *back-hand* I’ll freaking cut ya! …OK, I made that last one up but that’s near how I felt. The rivalry is real.

And that thematic score, to this day, is one of the most inspiring orchestral pieces ever made for a video game, period:

Ahh I want to go an adventure RN! Good soundtrack all round really.

Played it before? then this might resonate with your funny bone:

And supplemental material in this series is insane, as demonstrated by this insane bro:

Can’t wait for more.

Huge Explosion Chemical Plant in Jiangsu, China

•March 22, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Fire and smoke rising following an explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on March 21, 2019. The death toll from a huge explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China surged to 47 on Friday, making it one of the country’s worst industrial accidents in recent years:

Southampton Fan Dances to Firestarter as Tribute to Keith Flint

•March 11, 2019 • Leave a Comment

New DEFTONES Album!! (2019)

•March 10, 2019 • Leave a Comment

In early December, Deftones posted a photo of Sacramento with the simple caption ‘#2019 #newmusic’. Kerrang! magazine (devoted to hard rock and heavy metal music) has confirmed this in an interview with frontman Chino Moreno.

The alt-rock icons are expected to release their follow-up to 2016’s ‘Gore’ in 2019 — Moreno says that the band are currently in the “experimental mode” of recording it.

“We’re definitely getting into experimental sort of modes, which is the funnest phase that we get into. One of the biggest records in our career is obviously White Pony, and it’s our most commercially successful record, as well, but that was also one of our most experimental records, especially for the time when it came out. That record, making it was… what’s a good word to describe it? We felt really free,” Moreno told Kerrang.

“We basically made whatever we liked, whatever was happening at that moment. It didn’t really go along with what was going on around us, as far as our contemporaries and where other music was.” [KERRANG!]

MR. THOMAS — Substitute Mr. X For Thomas The Tank Engine With This Resident Evil 2 Mod

•March 10, 2019 • Leave a Comment

If for whatever reason you wanted to replace Resident Evil 2’s insidious Mr. X with er, Thomas the Tank Engine, now you can!

It’s ridiculous to see a bulky locomotive swing through doors and move towards you with murderous intent while Thomas’ theme song plays in the background, and that never-ending smile is nearly as creepy as Mr. X.

A guide to installing the mod, which ensures that the iconic ABC tune will play whenever Mr. X is supposed to show up, while also replacing his stomp and punch with Thomas’s whistle and steam train sounds, is on the Steam Workshop. The model for Thomas himself is here: (https://www.mediafire.com/file/htnk4r39c8eyk76/Thomas+Over+MR+X.rar)

#ChildhoodRuined Hey modders, I think I found your audience:

Stan Lee Cameo in CAPTAIN MARVEL = Backstory of Cosmic Proportions [cameos & easter eggs]

•March 10, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Yes, Stan Lee does make a cameo appearance. It is perfectly appropriate given CAPTAIN MARVEL in set in the 90s, but unlike his other cameo appearances, this one is also an easter-egg with a backstory that alludes to one cosmic implication in the MCU.

Capt. Marvel passes Stan Lee on a train reciting lines from a script titled MALLRATS, a movie that came out in 1995 that Stan Lee made a cameo appearance in, as himself.

Here is the thing, in his MALLRATS scene, Stan Lee as Stan Lee mentions that he is the guy responsible for creating Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, which begs the question; how can these fictional characters exist in The Marvel Cinematic Universe?!

It is a rhetorical question because no one should really care about this sort of stuff. It’s just a neat, meta nod of a terrific cameo, about a cameo, within a cameo — watch it here:

Totally gives credence to the theories surrounding his appearance in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 as a Watcher informer.

At the press conference for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 , Marvel boss Kevin Feige was asked what the cameo meant;

“Stan Lee clearly exists above and apart from the reality of all the films.” He added the cameo proved, “he’s this same character who’s popped up in all these films, the same person.”

What better tribute to the comics legend than this theory being true.

CAPTAIN MEAN-AS-HELL [trailer spoof]

•March 9, 2019 • Leave a Comment

ArtSpear Entertainment twists the Captain Marvel trailer and gives us a hero who is aware that she’s the center of the movie and super salty about it:

R.I.P. Luke Perry 1966 ~ 2019

•March 6, 2019 • Leave a Comment

After finishing up his 90210 heartthrob role, actor Luke Perry unexpectedly showed up in The Fifth Element (1997). Everyone involved in this movie rocks. Brilliant opening.

Just between us, I binged season 1 of Riverdale, and seeing Luke Perry’s role as Archie’s (played by Kiwi, KJ Apa) exemplary TV parent, I liked (Skeet Ulrich as well. Gruff Men actors in general really. Aww, this news will make my friend Nicole very sad).

Perry’s casting as Archie’s dad was a knowing wink to his teen-idol past, but the actor made sure it wasn’t just clever stunt casting. He served as the show’s emotional anchor, with Fred offering Archie unconditional love and sage advice through three seasons. Their father-son heart-to-hearts may seem like a corny relic from a bygone era, but they served as an essential counterweight to the show’s wilder storylines.

Keith Flint: RIP The Orginal Firestarter

•March 6, 2019 • Leave a Comment

On March the 4th 2019, the world lost a true maverick and star of the music world. Take a look at Keith Flint’s best moments with The Prodigy: