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La “sociedad de autores” puede meterse su concepto de “descarga ilegal” por donde este chico sabe. XD

Detectado por Xristo.

La mascota de Megadeth [wiki], Vic Rattlehead, ya tiene un nuevo aspecto “actualizado”.

A finales de Enero se convocó un concurso de rediseño de Vic, en el que Dave Mustaine ha actuado como juez, y ha seleccionado los tres mejores diseños:

deviantART.com and Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Announce Winner of

Mascot Redesign Contest!

Members of the giant online art society submitted more than 2,500 entries and frontman Dave Mustaine selected the winner himself!

Megadeth ‘s beloved mascot “Vic Rattlehead” has a new face thanks to the artists at deviantART.com ! The website, online home to the largest group of artists in the world, hosted a contest to redesign the longtime mascot for one of the most legendary metal bands of all time and frontman Dave Mustaine chose the winner himself: Polish artist Michal Loranc (whose “deviant” names is XAAY: http://xaay.deviantart.com/ ). The design can be seen online here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29051899/

Vic Rattlehead has appeared on several Megadeth albums as well as a myriad of band merchandise. Mustaine created the first Vic himself but decided after two decades that it was time for a revamping. The singer viewed all 2,500 submissions himself and said he knew the winner as soon as he saw it.

“It was exciting to see the different entries, but this one stayed true to the idea of the contest which was to create an update of Vic,” said Mustaine. “This artist had a futurist vision — you can still tell it’s Vic, but he’s morphed over time.”

Loranc, who has his own death metal project, is a huge fan of Megadeth and said he considered the band’s longtime fans when he came up with the idea and wanted to make sure the mascot was recognizable. Aside from the glory and recognition of designing the new Vic, he wins a LTD AXXION, a Dave Mustaine Signature Serious electric guitar from ESP. The second and third place winners won signature guitars as well, the LTD DV8-R, and LTD DV200 respectively.

“This was the most high stakes contest we’ve ever hosted and we were blown away by the quality and volume of submissions, said deviantART.com CEO/Co-Founder Angelo Sotira . “As the largest society of creative people on the Internet, deviantART was a natural place to host the contest and I am so proud of the community for stepping up to the challenge with some incredible work.”

Mustaine says he not only discovered a new Vic, but a new group of artists to work with on future projects, whether its album covers or T-shirt designs.

“This turned out great for everyone. We now have a relationship with the deviantART community and I would definitely love to do this again.”

deviantART.com allows all artists across the globe to create their own personal webpage and upload art for free. It currently hosts over 19 million pieces of art.

www.deviantart.com

www.megadeth.com

Hace casi un año hablaba de ellos. Por si a alguien se le escaparon, aquí tenéis un par de videos de YouTube:

Visto por Xristo: Escopetarra.

Vuelta a la rutina tras una semana agotadora. Ya que Blax se hizo eco de la noticia de la semana pasada no voy a comentar más al respecto, salvo decir que me parece vergonzoso.

Así que, vamos con algo un poco menos deprimente. Como ya comenté, Sepultura son los teloneros de In Flames. Para los que tengan curiosidad por ver qué tal lo hace Roy Mayorga tras la batería del grupo (Igor Cavalera [wiki] está de “permiso de paternidad”), ya hay unos videos de su primera “actuación” en directo:

SEPULTURA Perform With ROY MAYORGA On Brazilian TV: Video Available

SEPULTURA made their “live” debut with drummer Roy Mayorga on Saturday, March 11 on the Brazilian TV show “Altas Horas”. Download video clips of the band’s appearance on the program:

“Breed Apart” (video)

“Territory” (video)

“Convicted in Life” (video)

Mayorga is standing in for founding member Igor Cavalera, who is taking a break from the group’s touring activities to spend time with his second wife and their new son (who was born in January). Mayorga, who played with Igor‘s brother Max for several years in the late ’90s and again in 2001-2003, has been enlisted for SEPULTURA‘s European tour with IN FLAMES (which kicked off March 12 in Oslo, Norway), with the possibility that he will stick around for further touring activities beyond the spring.

SEPULTURA‘s current European tour is not the first time that the band have performed without Igor Cavalera. Back in April 2005, SEPULTURA completed a short tour of Mexico with the help of roadie Guilherme Martin (ex-VIPER, TOYSHOP) after Cavalera was unable to make the dates.

SEPULTURA‘s new album, “Dante XXI”, is scheduled for release in North America on March 14 via SPV.

Todavía me estoy riendo por la clase de público que les tocó. Aparte de eso, yo quiero mi ticket para el concierto pero ya.

… como “hacérselo con un rallador de queso, ligeramente divertido pero doloroso.”:

Y la tía parece ir en serio y todo (es la página de donde está sacada la muestra del Back in Black).

ACTUALIZACIÓN: Parece que Wing pasó por South Park.

… puede tocar como Lars:

Ayer salió la séptima entrega del podcast que Joe Satriani [wiki] está haciendo sobre su último disco:

A 13-part series featuring Joe discussing the background to each song from his new album, “Super Colossal”, featuring song clips and previously unseen artwork from his personal sketchbook!

Todas las entregas están disponibles en la página correspondiente de su página web, tanto en audio como con video.

Sacado de BraveWords:

JIMI HENDRIX – ‘Purple Haze’ Tops Poll Naming Most Misheard Lyric In Pop Music History

2006-02-28 11:14:31

ContactMusic.com (www.contactmusic.com) has issued the following report:

Late rocker JIMI HENDRIX’s classic 1967 track ‘Purple Haze’ has topped a new poll naming the most misheard lyric in pop music history.

The song’s line “‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky” is regularly interpreted by fans as “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”, according to a survey by British hearing aid company David Ormerod Hearing Centres.

Second in the poll is THE BEATLES’ ‘Paperback Writer’, the title lyric of which listeners often confuse for “Paint the black whiter”, followed by SADE’s ‘Smooth Operator’, which is regularly heard as “Smoother the better”.