Geezer Butler slams 'Hypocrite' Sarah Palin

I meant to post this (from Blabbermouth) a while back, but left it as a draft and forgot about it…

Now back to reality. As you may know from my web site and lyrics, I am pro all life, not just unborn fetuses. I don't understand people who say they are pro-life, but then support unnecessary wars and the disgusting slaughter of animals for sport. I respect people's freedom of religion, but I absolutely abhor hypocrites. Which brings me to this horrific video [see below] of cowardly bastards in airplanes, shooting wolves for so-called 'sport,' and the hypocritical politician [referring to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin] [she's supposed to be pro-life, remember], who allows this cowardly act to take place in her state.

Metallica - video premiere

It's midnight here at HQ and we are incredibly proud to present you with the debut of "The Day That Never Comes" ...not so much the standard video fare, but what we like to think of as a short film.

The video can be viewed at Metallica.com. The song is fantastic (the band are back to their old form, in my opinion) and video has a pretty tense ending.

The album Death Magnetic, is out on 12 September and the band will be playing two shows - in Berlin on 12 September and London on 15 September. Tickets which went on sale this week to MetClub members and Mission Metallica members are available for 10euro and 5GBP. I'm going to try my luck tomorrow, but don't hold out much hope!

Iron Maiden - 'Maiden Heaven'

Iron Maiden invited 15 of their favourite bands to record covers of Iron Maiden songs for a tribute CD to be given away with Kerrang! with the 19 July issue.

Kerrang! ran a competition for its readers to design cover artwork for the CD. The competition was won by Felipe Franco of Bogota, Colombia.

Machine Head who recorded Hallowed Be Thy Name for the CD, played it at the Rock in Rio festival in Portugal on 5 June.

Metallica: the new album title

After a week or so of teasing us with images of new artwork, adding a couple of letters each day, Metallica have announced the title for their 9th studio album - Death Magnetic. It's due for release in September.

DOES BRUSSELS IMPREGNATE THE POLICE?

Ever wanted to generate your very own hysteria inducing headings, just like the Daily Mail? Well you can now with Daily Mail-o-matic, a handy little widget created by Chris Applegate.

I was going to give the generator a sophisticated grammar for more varied sentences, until I realised the Mail’s grammar is nearly always the same.

Why not also try the David Blunkett policy maker, Michael Howard Sings The Smiths, or Alastair Campbell’s Wheel of Retribution?

Harry Hill goes back to school

Yesterday Harry Hill paid a visit to his old primary school in Kent, to help with a campaign to get their playing field back. BBC South East today report here.

Staplehurst School has been without a playing field for two years, since it sold some land to the local PCT for a new medical centre to be built. During this time the children have not had a sports day.

The field has been fenced off after work to improve the drainage was inspected and ruled unsafe. Google Maps shows the drainage work quite clearly.

Harry hoped to return for sports day when everything was sorted:

Maybe, who knows, I could race someone at the egg and spoon race as that was my particular area of expertise.

Monk On Fire!

Balakov's photostream 'Classics in Lego' has some great recreations of iconic images from the 20th century, all made from Lego, including Monk On Fire:

Another tough decision of whether to use the smiley face or not.

There is also a recreation of Martin Elliott's 1976 Tennis Girl.