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Fair enough, it was probably a hasty comparison.



Yes, very odd response. And no disagreement with this:

If a person is proven to have falsely accused someone else of something as serious as rape, they should do whatever hard time the accused would have had to do were he actually convicted. Plus register as a sex offender or something.

Cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one.

But yeah, their was never any kind of press release to say that she was proven wrong, only that the band swears it wasn't true. Such a weird situation, that did not receive any attention on the metal sites that I frequent.

I'm confused. It's like they agreed to disagree about rape. wat

lol. Exactly!

Statement From Dave Lombardo Regarding Slayer Australian Tour 2013

I want to personally apologize to all of our fans in Australia who have bought tickets for the tour expecting to see me in my usual place on the drums.

So that you all know the truth, as of the end of the business day on February 14th, I was notified that I would not be drumming for the tour in Australia. I’m saddened, and to be honest I am shocked by the situation.

Last year, I discovered 90% of Slayer’s tour income was being deducted as expenses including the professional fees paid to management, costing the band millions of dollars and leaving 10% or less to split amongst the four of us. In my opinion, this is not the way a band’s business should operate. I tried rectifying it by letting my band mates know, and Tom and I hired auditors to figure out what happened, but I was denied access to detailed information and the necessary back up documents.

I spent the Christmas and New Year holidays realizing I had toured all over the world in 2012, but yet, had not been paid (except a small advance) or provided a proper accounting for a full year's sweat and blood. On top of this, I was told that I would not be paid until I signed a long form contract which gave me no written assurance of how much or on what basis management would deduct commissions, nor did it provide me access to the financial budgets or records for review. It also forbade me to do interviews or make statements having to do with the band, in effect a gagging order.

Last Monday, I sat down with Kerry and Tom to rehearse for Australia and to propose a new business model that I felt was the best way forward for Slayer to confidently protect itself so we could do what we do best . . . play for the fans. Kerry made it clear he wasn’t interested in making changes and said if I wanted to argue the point, he would find another drummer. On Thursday, I arrived at rehearsals at 1 pm as scheduled, but Kerry did not show. Rather, at 6:24 pm I received an email from the lawyers saying I was being replaced for the Australian dates.

I remain hopeful that we can resolve our issues. But once again, I sincerely apologize to all of our fans in Australia who spent their money expecting to see the 3 of us original Slayer members.
I look forward to seeing you in the future.

Sincerely,
Dave Lombardo

I think this probably means Dave will be fired soon

Christ, what an arsehole King is.

As if I needed that report to know that.

And people call musicians "artists." It's all dollars and cents.

https://soundcloud.com/seaofglass/qeres-snippet

bit of a new Trophy Scars song. dat bass crunch.

And properly providing for your family is what?

two new akimbo songs

http://akimborocks.bandcamp.com/

Dude from Cynic will sing for Death on the upcoming Death to All Tour.

Gonna be awesome.

Which is kinda odd given that I thought Masdival did vocals, but whatever. So basically its Reinert, Masdival, singing dude from Cynic and Steve Digorgio. So Cynic and Digorgio play Death tracks? I'm still fucking down for this shit!

Clive Burr has died.

That's terrible news!

From memory, he was sick for some time (Multiple Sclerosis).

He'll live on in those great beats on three of the greatest Heavy Metal albums of all time by the greatest Metal band of all time.

Up The Irons!

Gaza broke up.

Satan of Court in the Act fame is releasing a new album!
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sa ... nce/367468

Yeah so did Angel Witch, it sucked.

New Orphaned Land album out in June!