From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to the new album by famous Iowans Slipknot, whose album All Hope Is Gone arrives in stores today.
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Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor comments on the South African kid who went on a sword rampage while wearing a makeshift Slipknot mask: "Obviously, I'm disturbed by the fact that people were hurt and someone died. As far as my responsibility for that goes, it stops there, because I know our message is actually very positive.... You have something like this happen, it could have been Marilyn Manson, it could have been any number of people who make art that is startling visually, on the darker side. It could've been Pat Boone, for Christ's sake. At the end of the day, there are always going to be mental disorders and people who cause violence for no other reason than the fact that they're fucked up and lost. And all we can do is try to learn from it." [Blender Blog]
Members of the metal grotesquerie Slipknot are trying to distance themselves from a South African teenager who attacked four people at his school with a sword (!) while wearing a homemade version of one of the band's masks; one person died, while the other three sustained injuries. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a few members of the chattering classes over there are quick to blame the murders on the "Satanic music" the teen listened to in his out-of-school hours, and Slipknot is getting particular scrutiny thanks to the man's choice of costume.
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Continuing its fun practice of temporarily discounting concert tickets in the hopes of getting butts into its venues' seats, Live Nation has sent out an e-mail to New York-area mailing list subscribers touting its "Summer Concert Stimulus Package," which cuts the ticket prices for select shows to $10 for one day only and which I would have called the "Business Sucks Sale," because, c'mon, that's a lot funnier and more honest. (And here's the obligatory note that the "convenience" charges added to the tickets after the fact nearly double the listed price, but that little piece of info isn't any fun to pass along, now, is it?) Among the shows are the Slipknot-headlined Mayhem Festival, which also includes Mastodon and Underoath on its bill; Judas Priest shows at both Jones Beach and the PNC Bank Arts Center; some sort of Opie and Anthony-sponsored "comedy" show; and bills that include both Poison and Sebastian Bach. The full list of shows after the jump.
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The Pete Wentz project FNMTV promises a world of entertainment this week for those of you who aren't seeing Mission of Burma tonight (grrr). This week's all-over-the-place lineup of videos is rather charming—save the inclusion of the madness called Shwayze.
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Sadly, the self-proclaimed "nine man hard rock enigma" Slipknot will not be teetering around stages in their own production of Easter Island Comes Alive! when they tour in support of their forthcoming album, All Hope Is Gone. No, those masks represented their spring collection, and the band is ready to "unveil its new imagery in an exclusive partnership with AOL Music, the web's most trafficked online music destination." You guys, I'm so scared! There's even a—gasp—visitor-length-inflating retrospective photo gallery! What will we tell the children? A shot of the new masks is after the jump.
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Extreme metal harlequins Slipknot have a very peculiar image on the front page on their Web site, one that allegedly reveals what their new masks will look like (they're really into masks, if you didn't know). "100% real," says an executive at their label. If this isn't an April fool, and they're actually going to move around stage wearing in those things, I'm impressed. Very Rapa Nui meets 12 Angry Men. Screencap of the masks after the jump, in case you don't want to have your computer bogged down by Flash.
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What? You mean you don't know about the bad blood between clownish hard-rock band Slipknot and the only slightly more clownish hard-rock band Mushroomhead? You must not be a pissed-off 13-year-old. Here's the scoop:
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