Gene Simmons of KISS mouths off about Obama having no &&#$ing clue in response to Obama’s call for Israel to withdraw to 1967 borders. Simmons is likely Israel’s most visible volunteer PR guy.
I love him.
Beautiful song, classic power ballad, gets nice and heavy at the end. Check Vendetta out on Facebook.
As part of their European tour, August Burns Red will perform in Israel on the 9th of June. This gig is not listed in the tour schedule on the official Facebook and Myspace band’s pages, but the gig was confirmed by the band’s management. August Burns Red’s visit in Tel-Aviv was arranged by Israeli producer Shuki Weiss, who brought Ozzy Osbourne and Korn to Israel last autumn. The show in Tel-Aviv at the “Barby†will be the last in the current tour. The band will return to the USA for the new album “Leveler†kick-off tour. The new album release is scheduled on 21th of June.
ISRAEL: Metal Israel
Spawn Of Evil – First Stone
Spawn Of Evil is an iconic death metal band that’s been on the Israeli scene for 13 years. Guitarist Miko Haronian describes First Stone as not “so political as it looks – more reality. Some leaders say ‘Destroy Israel’ all day long and the world is silent… so this is our answer to this – come on, try!” Spawn Of Evil mixes rambunctious gleeful energy release with quality meat and potatoes death metal. They are seeking a label for their latest album, Ecstatic Aggressive Behavior. Check them out.
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taken from Blabbermouth who took it from The Jerusalem Post….
GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal was a special guest at SALEM’s May 6, 2011 concert at Reading 3 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The event commemorated the re-release of SALEM’s cult 1994 album “Kaddish” (originally released by Germany’s Morbid Records), an LP which represents the band’s personal dirge for the victims of the Holocaust during World War II.
Says Thal, ““Even though none of my immediate family was killed in the Holocaust, it’s something that speaks to every Jew. If it’s not the Holocaust, it’s the trauma of the Six Day War, and if it’s not that, it’s the f****** Inquisition. We all feel the sense on a holiday when a family gets together that the gathering would have included seven times as many people if certain events hadn’t happened. I think only Jews would understand that – only we get it.â€
I daresay that ✡ NEVER FORGET ✡ and ✡ NEVER AGAIN ✡ – are words being thrown around today while the most we do is withhold taxes from the ones who would be all too happy to make it happen again…. and don’t support the last generation of survivors…
Sabaton – The Final Solution
Also, this is a song written by Rush’s Geddy Lee for his grandmother who was an Auschwitz survivor:
To support survivors in Israel: Matan B’Seter Bambi – make sure you earmark the $ for Holocaust survivors.
To support survivors in NYC: IVOLUNTEER
A rabbi’s son and cheder teacher turned master of magical gore?
“Dr. Gore is a very intense individual, representing all those things you want to do in your darkest of dreams but can’t because they’re illegal, immoral or fattening. He doesn’t have those mental blocks. Dr. Gore is unhygienic, immoral, lecherous and unskilled. With a combination of magic and freak show stunts I combine the real with illusion, from drilling into my face with a power drill, to cutting a lady in half with a jigsaw, to ripping out a man’s heart or smashing his testicles off with a sledgehammer. My personal favorite is the teleporting exploding rabbit, and that is exactly what it says on the tin. Autopsies are not uncommon as well. I specialize in what power tools and instruments of cooking and torture can do to the body. However, this is all overlaid with sore rather dark and a little raunchy humour.”
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ISRAEL: Metal Israel
Gevolt – Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn
Yiddish metal pioneers Gevolt took this 1932 Yiddish musical track (that incidentally was a big hit in Nazi Germany until they figured out it was Yiddish) and made glorious metal out of it. Their sound resembles a happy-go-lucky Rammstein/Linkin Park hybrid with violins. But since a lot of their songs are versions of the old ones my grandmothers sing, they have an unmatched nostalgic beauty. Download their second album Alef Base for free while you still can at their site.
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I love him.
(AP) Kiss’ Israeli-born singer-musician Gene Simmons is shouting out loud at the string of musicians who refuse to perform in his homeland.
“They’re fools,” the legendary bassist told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday, on his first return to Israel since leaving the country as a child more than 50 years ago.
Simmons described the visit as a “homecoming.” He offered a description of himself that might shock his legions of fans who know him as an American icon prone to spitting blood and sticking out his exceptionally long tongue:
“I’m Israeli. I’m a stranger in America. I’m an outsider,” he said, speaking in a hotel lobby across a valley from the walls of Jerusalem’s historic Old City. “I was born here and I’m proud of it.”
Simmons had harsh words for musicians like Elvis Costello and the Pixies who have recently canceled concerts to protest Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has gone further, joining an organized movement dedicated to boycotting Israel and its exports, though he appeared in Israel in 2006.
“The countries they should be boycotting are the same countries that the populations are rebelling,” he said. “People long to be free … And they sure as hell don’t want somebody who’s a ruler who hasn’t been elected by them.”
Simmons, 61, is visiting Israel as part of his reality show, “Gene Simmons Family Jewels,” which follows the adventures and musings of the rocker, his longtime girlfriend, Shannon Tweed, and their two children.
While situations on the show are generally lighthearted, he said his stop in Israel has deep personal significance. “Coming back to Israel is a homecoming,” he said.
Simmons was born Chaim Witz and spent his childhood in northern Israel before moving to America. The normally extravagant musician, known for his extended tongue, demonic makeup and stage pyrotechnics, grew subdued as he described his early life in the hardscrabble town of Tirat Carmel.
He recalled his father, a carpenter, taking his assault rifle and heading off to military service on weekends. He said his mother, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, taught him that “every day above ground is a good day.”
The family was “dirt poor,” scraping by on meager bread and milk rations available in what was then an underdeveloped country. He earned money by selling fruits he collected from cactuses.
Simmons moved with his mother to the United States when he was eight. Although he has climbed to the highest levels of the entertainment world and lives with a former Playboy Playmate of the Year in Beverly Hills, he said he still considers Israel his home.
Over the years, Simmons cultivated an extravagant personality, often boasting of his sexual conquests and his fortune and fame. While he did not hide his immigrant roots, they were never emphasized — but this appears to be changing in recent years.
Simmons, wearing dark sunglasses and black pants, shirt and blazer, laced the interview with Hebrew phrases. “Where were you born?” he asked in somewhat halting but serviceable Hebrew.
He made local headlines during Israel’s 2006 war against Lebanese guerrillas by sending a televised message to a wounded Israeli soldier, calling him a “hero.”
Simmons co-founded Kiss in the 1970s and became famous for wearing white and black face makeup, spitting fire and coughing up fake blood at sold-out performances. The group has sold some 100 million records, and four decades later, it remains one of the best-selling concert draws.
Simmons also presides over a business empire that includes his reality show, TV, game show and movie appearances, video games, books, comics and a Kiss credit card. His net worth is estimated to be in the tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of dollars.
Simmons insisted that his busy schedule has been the only reason he never made it back to Israel before.
“America allowed me to climb the highest levels of success, and I never wanted to stop. When you reach the top, you can rest,” he said.
“I’ve reached the top.”
Read the completely different and awesome exclusive interview at The Jerusalem Post here.
Former Megadeth guitarist and current resident of Japan Marty Friedman re: the Japanese tragedy: “Thank you all for your support and prayers. I am 100% fine, 100% healthy and in better shape than ever. However, there are many, many people here in Japan that are facing an unbelievable tragedy. Its`s time to go to the next step. I will be auctioning ALL of my guitars from the Megadeth era and will donate 100% of the proceeds to the earthquake.”
