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Malechite
picked up the June issue of SPIN with TOOL on the
cover... "I was reading the tool article and Nine
Inch Nails were mentioned several times in it," the
viewer said. Although they are only references, there
are many that are some what interesting:
- Their [Tool's]
songs, tortured enough to merit comparisons to goth
titans like the Cure and Nine Inch Nails, struck a
chord with a nation of bummed adolescents.
- Their [A Perfect
Circle] debut, Mer des Noms, delivered the killer
industrial-rock single "Judith," whose "fuck your
god, your christ" chorus provided withdrawing Nine
Inch Nails fans with a mainline dose of tuneful
blasphemy.
- "Message to Harry
Manback" sets an obscene, semicoherent death threat
from a friend's ousted roommate to a moody, Nine
Inch Nails-ish piano nocturne.
- Keenan's friends
include Trent Reznor and members of Rage, Melvins,
and Deftones, all of whom are also collaborators
(with Reznor leading, with Keenan, the upcoming,
black-clad, super-secretive supergroup Tapeworm).
- And yet, the last
time a long, torturous, highly anticipated album
from a tormented rock hero came out, it didn't exactly
shoot up the charts -- although critics and Tool
agree that Nine Inch Nails' "The Fragile" was a
brilliant work. The road now seems to be even rockier
for a supposed metal band that wants to make art.
On the daily show, Robert
Patrick (of t2 and, as of lately, x-files fame) was
the guest. Towards the end of the interview Stephen
Colbert asked Robert Patrick if his brother was Richard
Patrick from filter and originally from nine inch
nails. He said, "yes he's the lead singer for filter
and used to be in nine inch nails." Thanks to: trezin.aezol,
Brant.
ON VH1's "Rock 'n Roll
Jeopardy", there was a question about albums names
and the contestants had to name the artist that made
the album. One choice was "Smells Like Children,"
"Antichrist Superstar" and "Mechanical Animals". Art
Alexis of Everclear named Marilyn Manson correctly.
Thanks to: Rockotica.
On the very ultra rare
time Mary
Evans actually watched talk trash tv... "Jenny
Jones was on and the sister talked about the sister
who flashes everyone to get trips around the world
limo rides backstage at rock concerts etc," she said.
"The girl mentioned being at a Marilyn Manson concert
in the bathroom groping herself and flashing everyone
to get backstage and she did." It doesn't take much
folks!
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