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Three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour after Macklemore is dropped over Palestine comments
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What did Metallica do now?
Some people are still upset about napster.
yeah I am. fuck them.
they were only anti establishment until they got rich off of said establishment, then they were all like ohhh yes establishment yes give me more more establishment yeesssss.
/probably lyrics to their shit songs. idk.
Are you me?! I've hated them since all the Napster shit back in the day and always turned the radio when "Mandatory Metallica" would come on. I'd rather sit in silence.
Then they did everyone a favor and made music after the Black Album that was absolute garbage. Load & Reload we're both Loads of shit... pun intended.
maybe you are me? I agree with all that.
that's where that's from?
Hell yeah baby. I love when current slang is just referencing mid 2000s memes only weirdos on 4chan knew about.
Wow, I didn't know Mandatory Metallica was a thing, I just thought the local DJ really liked them.
I still rock out to Master of Puppets but I think bad things about James Hetfield afterwards
have you listened to "Torturing James Hetfield" by Chumbawamba? It's pretty amusing!
https://www.grunge.com/790537/the-biggest-scandals-to-ever-hit-metallica/
Is it any of these?
Their post-black-album shittiness predates the Napster idiocy by 4 years. They went to shit before they shot themselves in the foot.
I still think Master of Puppets is a fantastic album though.
was this just a Milwaukee 102.9 (if I remember right) thing or also in other regions??
Basically every rock and roll radio station has it
They did something else too, it's on the edge of my memory, ugh, in the last 5 years, something they said, oh that's going to bother me all day till it randomly pops in my head later (at 3am).
Ffs is this the reason why I get along with so many folks on the fedi?
This needs to be researched fully.
Did napster directly lead to the fediverse? Brave researchers, begin!
well I'm here because fuck spez and reddit. I was relatively unaware of fediverse and activity pub. ...but somehow totally aware of how slow matrix is going.
I mean me too, I'm talking core though.
The kind of people who would get pissed off about reddit like with the apicalypse are the same kind of people who would get mad about metallica and napster, don't you think?
And the rest are still upset about St. Anger.
Why use a snare without snare wires? BONK BONK BONK BONK BONK, is all I hear when I listen to st anger
And here's Lars, on the trash cans...
You say that, and I hate that album, but it's a legendary meme now and that's probably better than if it was Load/Reload 3.0.
Fuck Lars
They are also just kind of shitty people in general.
They've spent their entire lives with everyone telling them they were gifted musical idols, and they are to an extent. That doesn't make them great or useful people though.
They won't build you a house, or heal the sick, or drill a well, or take away your garbage, but they are good at what they do.
Funny enough. Vanilla ice would build you a house.
My name was on that first list of 150k. I never really liked Metallica to begin with and only snagged like 2 songs for a gym mix someone requested for track practice.
you'd think they'd have moved on, we have soulseek now
With it being so not-mainstream I actually feel safe on soulseek sharing my lib.
I'm upset about the human pile of shit they call a drummer. Clearly, when Cliff Burton died he took all the talent with him.
Are you a drummer? Cause I feel like drummers always hate Lars. I know nothing about drumming, and they all seem the same to me.
He's just a giant asshole, that's my main beef with him. For example, when they played in Bulgaria back in the day, he did an interview on TV and he was wearing two rolexes, one on each wrist.
oh, gotcha. This is probably legit.
i'm just a percussionist, not a drummer (if you ask i will lie and say i play wood block) and i wouldn't say hate, but i really dislike lars. if he bought me a drink i'd decline.
yea that’s when I gave up on those shills
The Metallica show I saw they were touring with Five Loser Death Punch. FFDP made plenty of right wing dog whistle comments through their set, and there’s no secret about how they want to be percieved.
I have never been to a tour where the main band doesn’t choose supporting bands that generally align with their views. Sometimes the less-popular band gets to say what the main one doesn’t want to themselves.
The atendees flew trump flags, thin blue line flags, amd Gadsden flags in the parking lot. They wore militia-style shirts and hats (crossed rifles, “freedom” slogans, raggedy flag shirts, etc). They were everywhere.
Metallica’s public image is highly curated, but everything I found about them points toward “highly conservative rich white dudes with few consequences” beliefs. The attendee’s display of thier politics just seals it.
I was a very long time Metallica fan, from the RtL, MoP, and AJfA days. I thought they were way out of line when it came to threatening fans over the whole Napster thing, but the right wing BS I saw at the concert ensures I’ll never listen to them again.
did you watch the documentary too
Yes
So... Grunt Style?
Among others.