Too Heavy to Hug #626

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The award for biggest dumbf*ck of the year goes to Christian Pastor Steven Anderson from the Faithful World Baptist Church who has been quoted as claiming that, “when you go to a concert of death metal, somebody might get killed! You know, you’re worshiping death!” in a recent ‘sermon’. Steven Anderson is speaking, of course, about the attack on Le Bataclan in Paris.
He goes on to say, “well, you love death metal so much, you bought the ticket, you love worshipping Satan!” which, if he wasn’t referring to the recent Paris attacks, would be really f*cking funny.
That sort of shit has been said about heavy metal by religious extremists such as Steven Anderson for decades now. But the worst part of his ‘sermon’ is where he says I mean, all you have to do is just Google this band, somebody told me, somebody emailed me and told me ‘just hit Google Images, Eagles of Death Metal’ and these guys are just total sodomite looking freaks. You know, but nobody thinks about that.
The first obvious issue with this ‘sermon’ by this ‘pastor’ is that he believes, simply by the name of the band, that the band is an actual death metal band. That’s exactly like going into the Apple Store and expecting to be able to buy red and green and pink apples. That’s exactly the same as expecting a sun dial to be a telephone that calls people who live on the sun. That’s exactly the same as expecting to see a giant, extinct mammoth at a Mastodon show.
Secondly, the worst part is, someone actually sat down and spent time emailing this ‘pastor’ to advise him to look at photos of the band, as if their deep research uncovered something extremely alarming that only this ‘pastor’ could possibly, what, remedy? I can imagine some bitter, old woman sitting at her desktop computer typing shit into Google daily and constantly emailing the ‘pastor’ with what she’s found and I’m assuming she’s the only person she emails and he only ever receives emails from her. But I digress, I’m also not sure what a “sodomite looking freak” is because those words sound like the words of a narrow minded religious extremist.
In other news
Nightwish will play only one show per capital city on their Endless Forms Most Beautiful Tour 2016 and the Melbourne show will be at The Forum Theatre on Monday January 11.
Soundwave 2016 will be held on Thursday January 26. Bands announced thus far are Disturbed, The Prodigy, Deftones, NOFX, Bullet For My Valentine, Public Enemy, Soulfly, L7, Frenzal Rhomb, Lordi, Moose Blood, Dead Letter Circus, Refused, Failure, Northlane, Bring Me The Horizon, Devil You Know, Hatebreed, Frnkiero and the Cellabration, Killswitch Engage, Ill Nino and Metal Allegiance.
Between The Buried And Me will play 170 Russell on Monday February 29.
Iron Maiden will be flying into Oz on their Ed Force One (piloted, of course by Bruce Dickinson). Melbourne’s show will be at Rod Laver on Saturday May 9.
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