Jack Black, generic 80s metal imagery and the sinking feeling that this will be more PARODY OF rather than TRIBUTE TO the entire reason for my existance since I was 13 years old. I need assurance that Tim Schaffer is Metal. He looks more like a Cure fan to me.

After the poserfication of Guitar Hero, I long for the days when metal was unpopular, underground and off the radar of dipshits who were wearing day-glo parachute pants back in ‘85. Current pop culture has a certain nostalgia for metal (thanks VH1), but how can you be nostalgic for something you weren’t into back in the day?

Metal isn’t a genre of music. It is a way of life. It goes on far beyond the 80s and the handful of bands most 30-somethings remember hearing about in the 80s. There are lots of awesome bands doing great stuff RIGHT HERE AND NOW, IN 2007!!! You’re not Metal just because you recognize Run to the Hills or Master of Puppets when you hear it.

I appreciate any respect given to the Great Old Ones of the 80s. But reducing Lemmy to a nostalgia icon on par with MC Hammer or the Thompson Twins is a great injustice. If you listened to Maiden and Anthrax in the 80s, then you should be listening to Gojira and Mastodon in 2007. If not, then you are just nostalgic for seomthing you were never really a part of in the first place.

Death is Life!!! Up the Irons!!!