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Audioslave Plays to Slaves of Another Kind

Chris Cornell's band, Audioslave, played to thousands of Cuban fans in Havana last Friday night.  Playing on his bandmates former band, Rage Against the Machine, Cornell screamed "I won't do what you tell me" to an enthusiastic audience - an audience that actually has to do exactly as they're told.

Vulgar Display of Power

Darrell ‘Dimebag’ Abbott (formerly of Pantera) was shot dead last night while performing in Columbus Ohio with his band Damageplan.  Apparently, a lone gunman stormed the stage and began firing just minutes after Damageplan began playing.

For those of us who link the metal of the late 80’s – early 90’s to the soundtrack of our punk adolescence, we remember how bands like the new Van Halen or a watered down Metallica left us feeling dissatisfied, if not a little embarrassed.  But Pantera – with their driving tempos and blistering guitars - remained metal.  And sometimes they fit the bill just perfectly. Through the 90’s - while bands all around the U.S began dropping their E string to a D tuning, in the hopes of capturing the ‘Seattle sound’, and old metal bands began to reveal the softer side behind their freshly chopped hair - Pantera stayed the same Texas band: hard as hell and still as loud. 

R.I.P. Darrell.