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[Guest NoCalMike]

From Blabbermouth.net:

 

Ex-METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted has slammed his former bandmates over their decision to tour this summer with LINKIN PARK and LIMP BIZKIT, calling the move "an obvious cash thing" and claiming that the group are "not staying true to their words."

 

"It's a joke, I think METALLICA are just a joke," Newsted told Britain's Rock Sound magazine in reference to the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003, which kicks off on July 4. "I don't think they have any idea. I am fan of METALLICA again, I did my thing in there and felt good and I'm proud of that shit and I am more proud than sour. But that's the integrity down the fucking tube! Why can't they take out STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, why can't they take out IN FLAMES? What they are doing now is such an obvious cash thing and has nothing to do with the music that we're supposed to be fighting for.

 

"Kirk got quoted about their new record sounding like ENTOMBED. How can it sound like ENTOMBED, how? Who is playing bass to make it sound like ENTOMBED? James is a good bass player, but c'mon, dude! Lars — he hasn't practiced enough drums over the years — he let his art fall away from him, he doesn't have the same finesse as he used to have, so how is it going to sound like ENTOMBED and have that energy? And anyway if they are speaking like that how come they are not talking ENTOMBED out on tour? Or MESHUGGAH — how came they are not staying true to their words? That's what really bothers me."

 

Newsted's new band, VOIVOD, start their U.S. tour on April 10 and are set to visit Europe in June — but don't expect to see METALLICA and VOIVOD on the same bill.

 

"There is political shit going on, they are really against us being on the same bills," Newsted explained. "Wherever METALLICA is, you won't be seeing VOIVOD."

 

VOIVOD's new, self-titled album is due on March 4 through Newsted's Chophouse Records in association with Surfdog Records. Check out the album's first single, "We Carry On", at this location.

 

***HILARIOUS***

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

We did this one. It's in the Summer Suckitarium Thread.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

voivod is new? seems I've known about them a long, long time. or maybe just Newsted is new to the band

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

They've been around for ages, if I'm not mistaken. At least since the 80s.

[Guest converge241]

i thought about starting another thread but figured we'd keep all the metalli-nonsense contained to one area when i posted it (from the same source)

 

87 or so for Voivod

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I think I might've read that the original Voivod bassist joined in '83, so that makes Voivod almost as old as Newsted's ex-band, Metallica.

 

Can't say I'm too much of a fan of Voivod's work, though.

[Guest Mindless_Aggression]

Voivod is a bit...dull. Not horrible just unspectacular. But God bless Newsted, god fuckin bless him.

[Guest areacode212]

I liked early Voivod...songs like "Tribal Convictions" were awesome. I even liked the "Astronomy Domine" cover. But the Angel Rat album (the last thing I've heard of theirs) was pretty dull. What do they sound like these days?

[Guest BionicRedneck]

"What they are doing now is such an obvious cash thing and has nothing to do with the music that we're supposed to be fighting for. "

 

Hmmm, as opposed to when Jason was in Metallica and they went on tour with Kid Rock?

 

he is just bitter.

[Guest Eyeball Kid]

I'd say he has a point, but, seeing as how Metallica has been polishing their sound for more mainstream acceptance over the past decade (while he was IN the friggin' band), only a fool would be surprised that they're going on tour with these bands. The embracing of nü metal was inevitable, and Newsted's comments are merely sour grapes.

[Guest redbaron51]

what happened to his one band...Echobrain?

[Guest swan]

what happened to his one band...Echobrain?

They are still around, he just isn't in it anymore.