Isn't there a version of this with a Type O Negative soundtrack?

Cool to see some coverage of news and news-type programming here. I do like seeing the talking heads getting called out on their bullshit, and I don't stay up late enough to watch the usual suspects do it anymore.

I…can't believe that DYKES needed to be told that final bit.

You sold out, man.
You used to be cool.

In order for that to be controversial, you'd have to track down the people who thought it was a good idea - very likely limited to the original artist and whoever approved the damn thing in the first place. I've never once seen anybody go to bat for that cover.

Yeah, I didn't figure that out for another 20 years. (I think the confusion came from that goofy, German-sounding spoken part somewhere on Pyromania, and Accept being German.) I often wonder if I would've gotten into real metal years before I actually did if I hadn't made this mistake.

I guess my other, just as lame story about Slaughter and my own non-knowledge of them - I remember winning a "Metal Head" VHS off of MuchMusic as a teenager and there was a segment where a couple of guys in Slaughter were getting interviewed and the interviewer called them "basically the biggest band in the world…

Yeah, you can argue whether it was a good thing or not - I think it threw some babies out with the bathwater - but nobody who was for any reason paying attention to mainstream metal in 1991-92 could miss how catastrophically fast it went from stadium-filling popularity to pariah status.

Accept

Slaughter makes me feel sad, because I remember actively seeking out the new Slaughter album in 1990, in my earliest metal-listening days, for reasons I don't remember, getting this, and thinking, "This isn't what I was looking for at all." It's conceivable that what I was really looking for was the Toronto thrash…

It was this line that convinced me that "porno" is so, SO much better a word than "porn".

You'll have a tough time finding a metal fan who says that grunge didn't matter. What you might get is a pretty ambivalent response about how it did though.

I'm generally for it except for everybody's faces which are ghastly toad-eyed grotesques, like Brett Booth all over again.

Probably in Ranchmans, that's where the big line-dancing scene was shot.

At the time, it was considered a massive novelty around here that a movie would be set (and partially filmed) in Calgary. So there's always been a cult audience around this movie here.

I always felt like there was more parental restriction in my house than there actually was - I remember my dad going through my CD's and coming across Overkill's "Fuck You!!!" EP and a chill of dread going through me…but he put it right back, and moved on.

It's good trash.

Not a lot of "mainstream" (i.e. recognizable actors) movies get censored up here in Canada, but I remember when this aired on Showcase, they specified that they had to make a small cut to comply with censorship laws. I immediately tuned out and rented a VHS of what I assumed was uncut - I don't remember specifically,…

Not gonna lie

Hey, I like sharks…but I don't dinosaur-like sharks.
Let's not be silly.