The guitarist Kerry King released this year his first solo album and Slayer also announced their reunion for a few festival dates. During a session of questions and answers with Metal Hammer, King was asked which is the hardest song to play. Kerry King reveals the hardest Slayer song to play According to the guitarist, the song "Dittohead", released on the band's 1994 album "Divine Intervention", is the hardest one to play. “I could go a number of ways with that [question],” says King, “but I’ll say Dittohead for the sheer speed of it. That’s probably our fastest song, and it’s not one I’m looking to play live any time soon!” [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvyq6xYPwos&pp=ygUJZGl0dG9oZWFk[/embed] He was also questioned about which was his favorite guitar riff of the band and he chose the classic "Raining Blood", from the 1986 album "Reign In Blood". “That’s difficult. I have to say Raining Blood ,” he answers. “It’s not just one riff in that song, but a whole showcase. If you pushed me, I’d say the intro too, as people still sing along to that guitar line,” Kerry King said. Slayer was formed by Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman, Tom Araya and Dave Lombardo in Los Angeles, California back in 1981. The band's current line-up has King, Araya, the drummer Paul Bostaph and the guitarist Gary Holt. During their career, the band released 12 studio albums and sold millions of records worldwide. They are part of the "Big Four of Thrash Metal", which also has Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.The post Kerry King reveals the hardest Slayer song to play appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Kiss was not only known for their music but also for their incredible live shows, which featured many special effects and iconic moments, like when Gene Simmons spits fire and then pours fake blood. The band did that for decades when they were wearing make up, until their retirement in 2023. In an interview with Steve-O (Transcribed by Ultimate Guitar), the musician recalled how the idea started. According to him it was their late manager Bill Aucoin who had the idea. Paul Stanley recalled how the idea of Gene spitting fire started "We went up to Bill's office, our manager's office. We're not much more than kids, and we walk into Bill's office, and there's a guy there that we don't know. Bill goes, 'This is Amaze-o the Magician,' or something. And we're like, 'OK.'" "And the guy blows this big fireball out of his mouth and scorches the ceiling, and Bill says, 'Who wants to do it?' And I go, 'Not me!' God bless Gene, he goes, 'I'll do it.' And that was the start of the fire breathing." "He was using lamp oil, kerosene, all kinds of things that are good for you," Stanley joked. "I mean, you don't have to swallow it, because just by the fact that you have absorbing tissue, it's going into your body. You don't have to take a swig of it, it's going. So luckily, Gene never grew a third head… or even a second head," Paul Stanley said. After 50 years on the road Kiss came to an end in 2023 playing their final shows at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, city where the band was formed. Paul Stanley still didn't played as a solo artist, but since the beginning of 2024 his former bandmate Gene Simmons is touring all over the world as a solo act with his own band. His setlist is mainly formed by Kiss songs with him on vocals, besides some other covers of famous bands. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnVfL7i4hvc&pp=ygURZ2VuZSBzaW1tb25zIGZpcmU%3D[/embed]The post Paul Stanley recalled how the idea of Gene spitting fire started appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The legendary Van Halen co-founder and drummer Alex Van Halen is currently promoting his new book called "Brothers", which talks about him, his late brother Eddie Van Halen and of course, their band until 1985 when David Lee Roth left the group. That's when the book ends and he explained that he preferred to focus on that era because it really was when the magic happened. He said in recent interviews that the real magic was really between the brothers and Roth, not even mentioning Hagar's name on the book or in the interviews. But he was asked in an interview with Billboard about the current Sammy Hagar tour with Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Kenny Aronoff. Besides performing Montrose and Sammy solo songs, the setlist is quite focused on the Van Hagar era. Alex simply answer that they can do whatever they want but they are not doing the band's justice. Alex Van Halen says the Sammy Hagar tour is not doing the band's catalog justice “I’m not interested. They’re not doing the band justice. They can do what they want to do. That’s not my business.” Alex said he is not interested because Sammy publicly invited him to join them on tour since the Eddie Van Halen tribute tour was not going to happen. But the vocalist also noted during the past year that he hasn't talked with Alex for 20 years already and during the past years he tried to call and text the drummer but he never returned his calls. He talked about that in an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock in 2024. “Mike and I reached out to Alex before we did this. We reached out to him a dozen times before this tour, in every way. E-mail, text message, phone call, message on the machine, okay? No response. No response. I mean, we made every offer to get together or to just talk or to have breakfast, lunch or dinner.” “Go to the studio and play. Come to my house or I’ll come to your house. Go ride horses, go sit on the beach. What do you want to do? Let’s just do something. Let’s get together. And nothing. When the tour came, the first person we called and left all of the messages, sent all of emails, it was Alex Van Halen. Mike and I said, ‘We’re wanting to do this thing.’ Alex’s famous line to me (decades ago) [was], ‘Sammy, we ain’t getting any younger.'” He continued: “Mike and I said, ‘Alex, we ain’t getting any younger. We’re going out and playing for the people. We’re going to go honor the Van Halen catalog. Let’s just get together and let’s talk about it. Mike and I, we’re going out, we’re going to do this, Alex. Please join us. Let’s be friends, let’s bury the hatchet, whatever.’ There was no response.” “I was saying, ‘He’ll come to a show, he’s got to in L.A. or something. I’m sure he’ll come.’ But no, no, he sold all of his equipment. That was his statement. That was like, ‘Nah, I ain’t coming nowhere,'” Sammy Hagar said. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJYtypVn34c&pp=ygUQc2FtbXkgaGFnYXIgMjAyNA%3D%3D[/embed]The post Alex Van Halen says the Sammy Hagar tour is not doing the band’s catalog justice appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Led by the singer, songwriter and guitarist Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins is certainly one of the most influential alternative rock bands from the past years. Although the band is not often seen as a heavy Rock band, they were extremely influenced by Metal bands and Corgan even praised Judas Priest, Metallica and other bands in an interview with Allison Hagendorf (Transcribed by Ultimate Guitar) Billy Corgan praises Judas Priest and Metallica "I was blessed, I saw [Maiden on their first tour with Bruce Dickinson. I saw Metallica on 'Ride the Lightning' and Judas Priest in '82 at a racetrack on 'Screaming for Vengeance' tour. (Then) I saw Accept opening for Iron Maiden. As it is commonly understood about me, I don't give a f**k what anybody thinks about music. Because most music thought is based on snobbery." "And the one thing that metal does, it reminds that not everybody cares about the snob vote, whether you're talking about Metallica, Rush, or Mötley Crüe. If you grew up in the world I grew up in, and so many people [to whom] that music speaks in a very visceral way, it's not supposed to be pretty. I mean, take Judas Priest. Here you have a closeted gay man in the '80s, who's going through all sorts of inner torment, scared that if he's outed, it might blow up his band, and somehow, through that inner struggle, he found an audience that accepted him for who he is." He continued: "I told Lars this when I was on his show, 'Fade to Black' by Metallica came out when my grandmother was dying of cancer. That song saved my life... When you've had those moments with rock, there's a loyalty between band and fan. When we started in the '80s, and started playing metal riffs in our alt-rock songs —I mean, the amount of snobbery that we got because [of it]." "And I don't want to name names, but some bands were flirting with metal stuff and doing a great job of it, but it was always kind of positioned as a bit ironic... Like 'This isn't who we are, because we don't want to get associated with all this stuff that people would commonly associate with at the time... Satan and misogyny [laughs]. We embraced [metal] in a way that made people uncomfortable, [and] I was like, 'This is great. I want to make these people uncomfortable. I really do.'" [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wk7C64kaP4&pp=ygUWc21hc2hpbmcgcHVtcGtpbnMgemVybw%3D%3D[/embed]The post Billy Corgan praises Judas Priest and Metallica appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Although Judas Priest released their debut album in 1974 and by the late 70s already had five albums out, they are still mentioned as one of the bands of the "New Wave of The British Heavy Metal". The main reason is because in 1980 they released their most praised album "British Steel", which was certainly one of the most important Metal albums of all time. Around that time, many other incredible bands appeared, including Iron Maiden, which released their debut album in 1980. Two years later, they would become an even bigger phenomenon when they recorded the album "Number of the Beast" with the new singer Bruce Dickinson. Maiden and Priest even toured together in the early 80s, but what is Bruce Dickinson's opinion on the band and their vocalist Rob Halford? Bruce Dickinson’s opinion on Judas Priest and Rob Halford Although Judas Priest already was one of the most influential Heavy Metal bands in the world in the early 80s, Bruce still wasn't really into them. As he recalled in an interview with Qobuz in 2024 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). He was asked to give his comments on the album "British Steel" and he revealed that he really understood the band when he toured with them. "What can you say? Judas Priest. That's one of their best covers, they had very mixed (covers). I found their album covers confusing. (For example, 'Point of Entry', 'I'm like, what is this?' you know. That one (British Steel), you know what that is. That's obviously a Metal record, it's got an edge to it. It's got something to it." He continued: "For me, I actually really started getting into Priest when I toured with them, so I was quite late. I mean, I knew who they were, you know, 'Sad Wings of Destiny' and all that stuff. But I really understand what they were about, when I toured with them with Maiden." "It was on the 'Screaming for Vengeance' tour. God, what a record that was and then all that stuff before. I mean, Adrian (Smith) was very into Priest, more so than me. But then when I saw them live, I was like 'Yeah, these guys are really cool'," Bruce Dickinson said. The musician fronted for a few years some BBC Radio shows and one of them was  “Masters Of Rock” and in the website of the show, Dickinson listed the 15 essential albums that everyone should listen. One of them was "British Steel", which had great tracks like “Breaking The Law”, “Metal Gods”, “Living After Midnight” and “United”. He once criticized Rob Halford for using a teleprompter on stage [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXeNrl3MI-k&pp=ygUVYnJlYWtpbmcgdGhlIGxhdyAyMDI0[/embed] Anything done live is pretty hard, especially when you get older. So many singers like to have a teleprompter on stage with the lyrics just in case they forget any part. According to Dickinson, Halford uses one and he criticized the Judas Priest vocalist during his spoken-word performance back in 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. He said: “I don’t use an autocue on stage. A lot of singers now, they just have the words there: ‘Breaking the law, breaking the law.’ Breaking the what? ‘Breaking the law, breaking the law.'”The post Bruce Dickinson’s opinion on Judas Priest and Rob Halford appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

American Workers Bloody Fight For Fair Pay and Working Conditions Parts 1,2,3 of 6 Jim Brown 12-17-2016 - (Converted to HD by TheWarAgainstYou) - PART ONE - GUILDS AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - 18,907 views Dec. 17, 2016 Jim Brown - This is Part One of six segments comprising an overview of labor union history in the United States. This episode spans developments from the Middle Ages to the American civil war. (Length 9:45) Topics include: Craft guilds in Europe The Industrial Revolution in England and America Child labor Changes in agriculture Early attempts to form unions The Lowell strikes The use of the courts to fight against unions. - PART TWO - WORKERS FIGHT BACK - 14,560 views Dec 17, 2016 Jim Brown - This is Part Two of six segments comprising an overview of labor union history in the United States. Covering the period from the Civil War through the 1890s, this segment discusses the attempts to form a national labor union movement and some of the violent clashes between working people and those opposing unions. (Length 17:07) Topics include: The National Labor Union The Great Upheaval of 1877 The rise and fall of the Knights of Labor The American Federation of Labor The Haymarket Massacre The Homestead strike The Pullman Strike - PART THREE - THE PROGRESSIVE ERA - 9,975 views • Dec 17, 2016 Jim Brown - This is Part Three of six segments comprising an overview of labor union history in the United States. Covering the first three decades of the twentieth century, this segment examines how the Progressive Era changed America and how the labor movement fared during this period. (Length 16:54) - Topics include: The Muckrakers Progressive Legislation The Shirtwaist Factory Fire The International Workers of the World The Lawrence Textile Strike The Ludlow Massacre The exposure of child labor abuses The impact of WWI on labor Matawan and the Battle of Blair Mountain The "Roaring 20s" and the decline of union membership - FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Mirrored From: https://www.youtube.com/@jimbrown5963

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Are you ready for the truth?  Since Joe Biden entered the White House, we have witnessed a tsunami of migration that is unlike anything we have ever seen before.  Millions upon millions of people that are not being properly screened are taking advantage of our deeply broken immigration system.  As a result, South American gangs are now absolutely thriving in major cities all over America.  In fact, as you will see below, the most notorious South American gang is literally running operations out of facilities that were originally established by the government to assist migrants. I have written about the national crisis that Tren de Aragua has created before, but it just keeps getting worse.  According to the Daily Mail, authorities are referring to this gang as the “epitome of evil” and “MS-13 on steroids”… Dubbed the ‘epitome of evil’ and ‘MS-13 on steroids’, police investigations showed that the mob is behind a spiraling crime wave across the US, with members accused of murders, violent assaults on cops and sex trafficking women. ‘MS-13, they were never organized; Tren de Aragua is a transnational criminal organization from the bottom to the top,’ Colorado’s former ICE director John Fabbricatore told DailyMail.com. ‘These guys right here [in the US] – they’re sending money back to leaders in Venezuela. They’re set up shop like a corporation – it is the like the mafia. What it took MS-13 to do in like a ten-year period, Tren de Aragua has been able to do in less than a year,’ he added. They have come across our wide open borders for a purpose. They are here to commit crimes and make lots of money, and they are causing chaos in communities from coast to coast. In fact, it is being reported that in some cities they are actually running their operations out of “the very facilities established to provide assistance to migrants”… As recent police investigations and criminal prosecutions have revealed, Tren de Aragua has no need to subsist in the underground world of urban blight where previous generations of immigrant crime gangs flourished. Instead, it appears to operate in the very facilities established to provide assistance to migrants who have illegally crossed the southern border, which Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris has so disastrously mismanaged. Tren de Aragua’s leaders and members – identifiable by particular tattoos – have been reported to live, recruit new members, and sortie from migrant shelters, hotels appropriated for migrant use, and other social welfare institutions. New York City mayor Eric Adams, himself now under indictment for bribery and campaign finance crimes, estimates that migrant-related expenses will cost more than $12 billion by 2025 and could “destroy New York City”. If we do not get this under control, the consequences will be horrific. They are dealing drugs, they are breaking into homes, they are trafficking women and children, and they will kill anyone that gets in their way. Earlier this month, there was a massive operation in San Antonio during which authorities took back a sprawling apartment complex that had been taken over by Tren de Aragua… In a pre-dawn operation, hundreds of law enforcement officers closed in on the sprawling Palatia Apartments in the early hours of October 5 after spending weeks investigating reports that Tren de Aragua had control of the area. After searching over 300 units, cops arrested 19 individuals – four of which have been confirmed as gang members. ‘One TdA member is a confirmed “enforcer” for that gang,’ and 15 were in the country illegally,’ the city’s top cop William McManus said. According to one person that lives in that apartment complex, the gang was “prostituting the women and the children” in some of the apartment units. We should be thankful that particular apartment complex has been cleaned up, but the Daily Mail has found three others in San Antonio that have also been taken over by Tren de Aragua… But now DailyMail.com can reveal that this apartment invasion is just the tip of the iceberg in the major southern Texas city, with at least three other rental properties also occupied by the criminal organization. DailyMail.com is not naming the three other apartment complexes to avoid jeopardizing ongoing police investigations. However, the locations were confirmed by law enforcement sources, and we spent days visiting the sites where we spoke to terrified residents. San Antonio was once such a beautiful place. But now it is being absolutely terrorized by this gang. And more military-age men from Venezuela are coming over the southern border with each passing day… According to the authority’s most recent statistics, 25,111 migrants passed through the Darién Gap in September, a 51.23-percent increase from the 16,603 recorded in August. Venezuelan nationals accounted for 78.83 percent of September’s total Darién crossings, totaling 19,800 registered encounters, up from the 11,733 logged in August. Nearly eight million Venezuelans have fled their country over the past decade as a result of the collapse of socialism in their country. The Venezuelan migrant crisis, described as the worst migrant crisis in the Western Hemisphere, is only comparable in size to that of Syria and Ukraine, notable since Venezuela has not been in a state of war in recent history. In Venezuela, there isn’t much money to be made since most of the population is living in poverty. So criminals have been making the long journey north because there is lots of money to be made in the United States. We must put an end to this, but the politicians in Washington refuse to do so. Once they get across the border in Panama, it is so easy for South American criminals to get to our southern border.  This is something that Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino discussed during a recent speech to the United Nations… In his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Panamanian President Mulino declared the flow of U.S.-bound migrants passing through his country an “immense global problem.” Migrants pass through his country in such large numbers, he said, that the “United States border” is functionally in Panama. Mulino called for joint international efforts to curb the flow of migrants, stressing that his country does not have the resources to solve the crisis on its own. He is right. Our southern border is basically in Panama at this point. And that has got to stop. When things finally hit the fan, millions of people that have come into this country illegally are going to go completely wild. If our leaders had made better choices, things could have turned out much differently. But now the stage has been set for unprecedented chaos, and when that time comes our law enforcement agencies will be totally overwhelmed. Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk: Russia GDP is now estimated at +3.8 percent, topping the US, despite sanctions. What’s going on? Russia’s War Economy Eurointelligence discusses Russia’s War Economy It is worth looking at the autumn forecast for Russia by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, one of the best sources of economic information for central and […]