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Avenged Sevenfold, Katy Perry mashup finds bat country in California

by Bram Teitelman | May 12, 2015 | Metal Memes, News, Video

[youtube]https://youtu.be/zgO7i40-Ce8[/youtube] Today in mashups that work way better than they should, we have Katy Perry meeting Avenged Sevenfold in a pretty amazing hybrid of annoying pop song “California Gurls” and A7X’s Fear and Loathing in Las...

Higgs boson metal song creator not a fan of Megadeth’s Super Collider either

by Metal Insider | May 11, 2015 | Interviews, Metal Memes, News

[youtube]https://youtu.be/SXEnDM3hydM[/youtube] The Higgs boson is an expression of a field that permeates all of space, one that gives normally massless particles the heft and substance that makes up all the matter we see and are made of. And it sounds like...

Watch some dude sing 99 Metallica songs in 10 minutes

by Bram Teitelman | Apr 27, 2015 | Metal Memes, News, Video

[youtube]https://youtu.be/gTkC6bf-fKE[/youtube] Paschalis Theotokis must have had a lot of time on his hands. That’s the only suggestion we can come up for why the guy strapped on a Guitar Hero Gibson, a wig, and sang/played through a snippet of just about every...

Find out how Korn got their name, fictionally

by Bram Teitelman | Apr 22, 2015 | Metal Memes, News, Video

[youtube]https://youtu.be/T7w0WzWdsiI[/youtube] Like a junior Brendon Small, Joey Siler has been a go-to guy for animated metal. His “Cooking Hostile” series was enough to get Phil Anselmo himself involved, and he’s been creating other clips as well....

Marionette drummer Chops Sawyer tackles classic Rush

by Seth Werkheiser | Apr 16, 2015 | Metal Memes, News, Video

NYC marionette master and musician Ricky Syers put his music skills to the test in his recent video, “Chops Sawyer.” Syers built the puppet (named, “Chops,” of course) and the drum set, saying that he, “didn’t expect them to...

The “Enter Sandman” Banjo Cover We All Wanted

by Metal Insider | Mar 30, 2015 | Metal Memes, News, Video

In the past year we have seen our fair share of metal banjo covers. Most of them come from Rob Scallon, but there’s more out there. Hell, Spinefarm even signed Steve ‘n Seagulls. With acoustic stringed non-guitar covers of metal songs essentially a cottage...
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