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Sharon Osbourne Still Hates Bruce Dickinson: “He’s a F***ing Asshole”

Team Ozzy and Team Iron Maiden have a few issues stemming back to Ozzfest 2005, namely Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson. Basically, in 2005, the power was cut during Maiden’s last Ozzfest performance, which led to an extremely-negative crowd response (shocker!). Sharon Osbourne then took the stage and explained that it was because Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson had disrespected her husband throughout the tour and this was payback.

In a recent interview with the Osbournes, Consequence asked Ozzy if he compared himself to singers like Bruce Dickinson and Ronnie James Dio.

“Bruce Dickinson is a great singer, but as a person, I’ve worked with him, and he’s not very nice. Ronnie James Dio is no longer alive. He was a great singer. I didn’t really know him so well. I’m not one of these guys who says many things about people. The truth is the truth. I met Ronnie James Dio a couple of times. He took my [Black Sabbath] gig. But at the same time, I can’t complain because I did great on my own.

“But I don’t sing for a judge. I sing for my fans. If my fans don’t buy my music, that would tell me my singing isn’t any good anymore, but they’re still buying my records. I’m my own worst critic. I don’t rate myself more than Ronnie James Dio or Bruce Dickinson. That’s not my gig. I don’t care. I have fun doing what I do. My goal is to turn my fucking audience on. And that’s what I try to do. I’m not interested if someone thinks I’m a fucking joke. That’s fine. That’s their opinion.”

Ozzy may not have wanted to get into the mud about his beef with Dickinson, but Sharon has no such qualms.

“Bruce Dickinson is a fucking prick. Well, no, he’s not a prick because a prick’s nice. He’s a fucking asshole. Because the situation is he was on a tour called Ozzfest. And Ozzy Osbourne was paying him every night to perform. He accepted the gig. He knew what he was doing. He accepted the gig. And every night he would go onstage and say bad things about Ozzy. And the crew and everybody in all the other bands would be like, ‘Are you letting him get away with it?’ And I’m like, ‘I sure am.’ But the last gig was [just outside of] L.A. And I thought, ‘You motherfucker, now you’re gonna get it.’

“And so I had about 20 people in the audience and a lot of them were nurses from Cedars Sinai, because I had cancer at that time. And they were all my chemo nurses. And they all came down, and they fucking pelted the shit out of him. And my thing is, you play, you pay!

“And the thing is, if you’re being paid to do a gig, but you don’t like the person, then fuck off. But don’t stay, take the money, take all the good that’s coming to your band through being on a festival, doing 24 shows and still slagging the person that’s paying you. It’s like, ‘No, that makes you a fucking asshole.’ And he is. And he’s never apologized, he never even went up and said hello to Ozzy. The thing about him is that he is just so jealous. And always has been of Ozzy. And that’s his problem.

“Because the thing is about Bruce Dickinson, he’s hugely successful. He’s got a great fan base, a great fan base that have been loyal. The band are great guys. All the band are great. And they do great. You know, they’re a great band, you can’t take it away, and neither would I take that away from them. But the thing about Bruce is, he is unknown to the public. Bruce Dickinson could walk into anywhere and nobody would know who the fuck he is. Do you know what I’m saying?

“He’s a faceless singer to the general public. People aren’t scrambling to get him for an interview. And the thing is, he’s not interesting. But the thing is, Ozzy is original and Bruce isn’t and that’s what eats Bruce away.”

I guess that means we won’t be seeing Iron Maiden in the Metaverse anytime soon.

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Obituary Announce Album Dying of Everything and We Have an Exclusive Vinyl Variant, Hear “The Wrong Time” Now

It’s not very often that death metal titans like Obituary put out a new record, but Dying of Everything is coming out on January 13 and we’ve got access to the first single “The Wrong Time” below. That’s right — don’t adjust your monitors — new Obituary. Right. Fucking. Now.

The band themselves describe their forthcoming album as being in the same vein as early releases like Slowly We Rot and Cause of Death while maintaining a modern production value.

“We couldn’t be more excited to finally get this new album out and into the hands of the fans! We chose “The Wrong Time” for the first single as it is a true depiction of the sound, style and feel we went for in the studio and is a great taste of what you can expect from Dying of Everything.”

Dying of Everything will be the band’s first full-length studio release since 2017’s Obituary. And while this would be a huge occasion on its own for any Obituary fan, we’ve got our hands on an exclusive vinyl variant thanks to our collaboration with Gimme Metal.

Over on our store right now, you can preorder yourself a copy of a special gold vinyl variant of which only 300 are being made. This is going to be a rare piece that any Obituary fan will want to add to their collection. And while the album itself is slated to release in January, the vinyl LP won’t get to your doorstep sooner than February 17. Still, you can’t go wrong grabbing one for $25.99.

So with all that in mind, it’s time for you to check out the new music, “The Wrong Time,” below. Jam this one loud and when it’s all said and done, preorder a copy of Dying of Everything via Relapse Records or preorder our special, very limited gold vinyl variant.

Obituary, Dying of Everything

1. Barely Alive
2. The Wrong Time
3. Without a Conscience
4. War
5. Dying of Everything
6. My Will To Live
7. By the Dawn
8. Weaponize the Hate
9. Torn Apart
10. Be Warned

You can also catch Obituary on tour starting today, as they hit North America with Amon Amarth, Carcass, and Cattle Decapitation. Check out the dates below:

OBITUARY TOUR DATES:
NA w/ Amon Amarth, Carcass, Cattle Decapitation

Nov 10 Albuquerque, NM El Rey Theatre (w/ Hatebreed & Gatecreeper)
Nov 11 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl (No Carcass)
Nov 12 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Federal Theatre
Nov 14 San Antonio, TX Aztec Theatre
Nov 15 Houston, TX Bayou Music Center
Nov 16 Dallas, TX Southside Ballroom
Nov 18 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Nov 19 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
Nov 20 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
Nov 22 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
Nov 23 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Nov 25 Detroit, MI The Fillmore
Nov 26 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
Nov 27 Cincinnati, OH The Andrew J Brady ICON Music Center
Nov 30 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
Dec 01 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroo
Dec 02 Toronto, ON History
Dec 03 Laval, QC Place Bell
Dec 05 Madison, WI The Sylvee
Dec 06 Minneapolis, MN The Fillmore Minneapolis
Dec 07 Kansas City, MO Upton Theater
Dec 09 Denver, CO The Fillmore
Dec 10 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
Dec 12 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
Dec 13 Portland, OR Roseland Ballroom
Dec 15 Wheatland, CA Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Dec 16 San Diego, CA SOMA
Dec 17 Los Angeles, CA The Forum

EU 2023 w/ Heaven Shall Burn & Trivium

Jan 17 Tilburg, NL 013
Jan 18 Saarbrücken, DE Saarlandhalle
Jan 20 Dusseldorf, DE Mitsubishi Electric Halle
Jan 21 Erfurt, DE Messe
Jan 22 Prague, CZ Forum Karlin
Jan 23 Warsaw, PL Stodola
Jan 25 Helsinki, FI House of Culture
Jan 27 Stockholm, SE Fallan
Jan 28 Copenhagen, DK Amager Bio
Jan 29 Leipzig, DE Haus Auensee
Jan 31 Brussels, DE AB
Feb 01 Paris, FR
Feb 03 Bilbao, ES Santana 27
Feb 04 Lisbon, PT Sala Tejo
Feb 05 Madrid, ES La Riviera
Feb 07 Barcelona, ES Razzmatazz
Feb 08 Lyon, FR Le Transbordeur
Feb 10 Ludwigsburg, DE MHP Arena
Feb 11 Hamburg, DE Sporthalle
Feb 12 Berlin, DE Verti Music Hall
Feb 14 Budapest, HU Barba Negra
Feb 15 Vienna, AT Gasometer
Feb 17 Munich, DE Zenith
Feb 18 Zurich, CH Samsung Hall
Feb 19 Milano, IT Alcatraz
Feb 20 Frankfurt, DE Jarhunderthalle
Feb 23 London, UK Electric Ballroom (Obituary Headline Set

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Former Queensrÿche Singer Geoff Tate Announces Operation: Mindcrime 35th Anniversary Tour

Next year, Queensrÿche‘s third studio album, the progressive metal masterpiece Operation: Mindcrime, turns 35 years old. To commemorate the milestone, original Queensrÿche singer Geoff Tate will embark on an anniversary tour, performing the album in full.

So far, Tate has announced a 9-date UK trek for the performance, presumably with other dates to be announced in the future. When announcing the tour, he said:

“It’s strange to think about, but this is my perspective. I wasn’t actually even gonna do it again. I get requests — so many requests — to play this record in its entirety… So Ahh… Okay. One more time, just one more time.”

Operation: Mindcrime was originally released in May of 1988. It is a concept album that details the story of Nikki, a drug addict who is brought into a web of political assassins. It’s widely regarded as one of the best metal concept albums of all time and spawned a sequel album that was not nearly as well received.

Tate was fired from Queensrÿche in 2012, which led to a lawsuit over the band’s name. His bandmates retained the original name while he received the exclusive rights to perform Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime II in full.

June 14 – Sheffield, UK @ Corporation
June 15 – Wolverhampton, UK @ KK’s Steel Mill
June 16 – Nuneaton, UK @ Queen’s Hall
June 17 – Newport, UK @ The Neon
June 18 – London, UK @ The Garage
June 20 – Bradford, UK @ Nightrain
June 21 – Blackpool, UK @ The Waterloo
June 22 – Buckley, UK @ Tivoli
June 23 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny

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Hallowed Be Thy Game: Brütal Legend is a Love Letter to Heavy Metal

(Editor’s note: Let’s face it — most metalheads are a buncha nerds. To that end, Hallowed Be Thy Game is a weekly feature here on MetalSucks where we’ll highlight some of the metal-as-fuck board/video/tabletop role playing games we’re playing or have played in the past.)

As a lifelong gamer and metalhead, there have been very few moments where the Venn diagram of both those passions became just one circle. Sure, some games can be metal, but very few actually are metal. Few speak to our unmitigated love of the music — in fact, few developers even really understand what heavy metal is and what it means to people like you and me.

So when Tim Schafer (no relation to Jon Schaffer) and his company Double Fine Productions announced they were making an video game that paid tribute to heavy metal in all its forms, I was stoked. When Brütal Legend finally came out back in October 2009, I was excited but unprepared for just how metal a video game could actually get.

For those that either weren’t around or weren’t aware, Brütal Legend was looked at by non-metalheads as just another action/roleplaying game in an era where there were so many third-person action RPGs. But this one was different. In this game, you take on the role of a battle-vest wearing, mullet-sporting, cigarette-draggin’ roadie named Eddie Riggs, who’s voiced by Jack Black. The dude longs for the days of old school metal but is stuck handling the on-stage goings on of what sounds like a horrific nu-metal band called Kabbage Boy. It’s just… bad.

Luckily, we’re not subjected to their music for long, as the band is killed in an on-stage incident and an unconscious Riggs is transported to a magical world where heavy metal reigns and every vista is fit for an album cover.

Right from the get-go, you’re hit in the face with the biggest and most important aspects of this game — the soundtrack. The first time you gain control of Eddie Riggs, you’re tasked with killing a buncha murderous cultists. That’s nothing new in a game like this, but what is new is the fact you’re doing it to “Children of the Grave” by Black Sabbath.

Throughout the entire game, you’re never too far from hearing a badass metal tune. As you drive around the wasteland, you could be jamming out to “Am I Evil?” by Diamond Head one minute and then the next moment you’re tearing it up while “This Spake The Nightspirit” by Emperor blares from your TV screen. The soundtrack is extensive, covers multiple decades, and spans so many sub-genres of metal. It’s obvious that only a metalhead like Tim Schaffer could have come up with the track list because it’s so meticulously put together.

Getting back to the game, Riggs slays demons, teams up with headbanging warriors, and meets some interesting characters to aid him on his quest to help destroy the demons that plague the land. And that’s another area where the game shows its love for metal on its sleeve. Some of the most important characters are voiced by some of the most important people in metal and rock. We’re talking Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, Ozzy Osbourne, and Rob Halford. Hell, Halford voices two characters. It’s such a trip to speed into a lava filled area in your souped up hot rod only to be face to face with a digital likeness of Ozzy a second later.

And while the second half of the game kinda goes off the rails a bit with a sudden shift in gameplay, Brütal Legend never loses sight of the metal. I could go on and on about the plot, the characters, the music, the scenery, really everything, but it’s just easier if you check it out yourself.

Brütal Legend is available on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC via Steam and other online marketplaces. It’s also on Xbox Game Pass for consoles, so no reason to not give it a try if you’re a subscriber!

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Songs to Listen to as American Democracy Dies

After months of insane rhetoric from both sides of the aisle, it’s finally election day. With scores of Americans heading to the polls that haven’t already cast their ballots, all that’s left to say now is “well, it’s been a good run America. So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

If you’re of a certain mindset, today’s midterm elections feel like the end of an era as one side believes it’s saving the country from “Communists that want to make your kids trans” while the other side thinks this will be “the last American election ever” if the other side gains control of Washington. Apparently it’s all or nothing. Do or die. Don’t pass Go and don’t collect $200.

And while you can point to a whole list of reasons why this all feels so pointless, I personally blame the January 6 insurrection as the tipping point. So to celebrate the apparent end of democracy, here’s a playlist that has absolutely no central theme to it all and has nothing to do with any disgraced fascist metal musicians.

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Iced Earth – “1776” or “Star Spangled Banner”

What can be said about our national anthem that hasn’t already? Written by Francis Scott Key, it’s a huge middle finger to the Brits, effectively saying “suck it, you limey nerds. Your rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air did fuck all to our flag.” Extra points for stealing a British drinking song’s tune. I’m sure Jon Schaffer had this in his heart while he was threatening police with bear spray.

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Iced Earth – “Burning Times”

Though this song’s initially based on the Spanish Inquisition and the way it completely perverted the very religion it claimed to love and defend. It’s kinda like Jon Schaffer and all the other MAGA chuds on January 6 that claimed to love law enforcement and the Constitution, but beat up on both in the same day.

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Iced Earth – “When the Eagle Cries”

When I think of songs that evoke the kind of sorrow I’d expect a real patriot to shed a tear to, “When the Eagle Cries” isn’t one of them. This is, however, the perfect “aw man, our countree is goin’ down da shitter” tune for the Big Mac guzzling LARPers like Jon Schaffer that perpetrated the biggest attack on democracy in the country’s history.

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Iced Earth – “Great Heathen Army”

I’ll be honest here. There’s a bit and I have been trying to follow the bit, but there’s only so much Iced Earth I can stomach, especially knowing now how much of a traitorous piece of shit Jon Schaffer is. So let’s just say this song represents the scores of pasty white failures that couldn’t even get a room of old people to stop voting. Way to suck, nerds.

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Iced Earth – “Disciples of the Lie”

Had El Trumpito not spent weeks and months pumping up a conspiracy theory that the election was rigged, nine people (including five law enforcement officers) would still be alive. All for a stupid fucking lie that we’re still dealing with now. Did you know that over 300 candidates in today’s election believe the 2020 election was stolen? In the words of Metallica, “we’re so fucked.”

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Iced Earth – “Ghost of Freedom”

This one’s a pretty obvious choice. With both sides believing they’re voting to save freedom in the country, could it be that it’s actually terminally ill, on life support, and about to have the plug pulled anyway? Who knows? What I do know was when Jon Schaffer was charged with obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and trespassing on restricted grounds of the Capitol while armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon, he probably literally saw the ghost of his freedom drift away.

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Iced Earth – “My Own Savior”

Like most songs by this band, “My Own Savior” probably has to do with some eternal struggle or whatever, but I’m sure all the people that got arrested, charged, and agreed to plea deals would call themselves “My Own Savior.” Especially Jon Schaffer, whose involvement in the democracy damaging insurrection led to him entering a plea agreement where he must rat on his fellow Oathkeepers if he ever wants to avoid the inside of a jail cell.

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Iced Earth – “Brainwashed”

This one’s easy. If you were convinced to literally storm the center of the American federal government and thought you weren’t ever going to be caught, you were brainwashed. I mean, come on — DC is one of the most heavily surveilled places on the planet. How dumb do you have to be, Jon?

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Iced Earth – “Days of Rage”

With all the talk about society collapsing and seething anger and whatnot, this song perfectly encapsulates the events of January 6 and the continued rage that boils over across the entire political spectrum in the country. Feels like we’ve had years of rage and who knows if there’s ever going to be a return from that.

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Iced Earth – “High Water Mark”

The final song of a three part series based on the Battle of Gettysburg. You know, that major Civil War battle? Some say we might be headed to another one of those, so maybe listening to this could be considered preparation? Either way, here’s hoping that January 6 was the high water mark for this country’s insanity. I also can’t help but imagine this song was on Jon Schaffer’s mind as he briefly ran from the feds earlier this year. Especially the part at the end where Tim “Ripper” Owens wailed “It’s all my fault/The blood is on my hands.”

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I Must Be Trippin’ Balls Because This Jerry Cantrell Video is So Effin’ Weird

Okay, you assholes. Who dosed my afternoon whiskey with high grade psychedelics?! I’m still on the clock and I was going to write about the new Jerry Cantrell music video for “Prism of Doubt,” but what I just watched has to be the result of an acid flashback or I’ve been sabotaged.

Jerry Cantrell’s Brighten came out last year and it’s easily one of my favorite releases from 2021. It’s a departure from his previous, more dark and melancholy solo efforts, but damn it if it wasn’t a phenomenal piece of art from front to back. When it comes to music videos for the album, I’d expect something like the video we got for “Brighten” or “Siren Song.” Those make sense.

This rejected episode of Kablam! is just wild. There’s an impending apocalypse, melted Barbie dolls standing in as zombies, and a simulated alien orgy that would make perfect sense on a Team America sequel. Yep, even typing that out I feel like I’ve lost grip with reality.

You can check out the video below and see for yourself. If you can, drop me a line and let me know what the video’s actually about. If this is a trip, I’ve got at least 10 hours left to go.

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