OK, I am tired of haters! I am so sick of reading posts from narrow-minded people who only know one kind of music and can’t fathom the idea a band might want to stretch their boundaries. To the haters I say, you are like dinosaurs and one day you will become extinct. Being open to the different flavors rock music has in, what year is this, 2013, is like someone who appreciates art, but doesn’t just go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the masters, they love MOMA and the Gugenheim as well! I mean, people who think Korn‘s “Never Never” is whack ARE Whacked! Or NEED to be WHACKED! The video is just amazing and when the album is out, the whiners can SHUT THE F^@& UP! Been living with it all weekend and there are songs on this that will blow you all away and hopefully quiet your lame-ass remarks. Next year is their 20th anniversary. If they stayed exactly the same, they wouldn’t be here. The sheer fact they change their sound and evolve is the reason they’ve maintained. So go back to your black metal, thrash metal, or whatever metal you are into, and have a nice day……Metallica‘s new movie, Metallica Through The Never, makes its world premiere tonight (Sep 9th) at the 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival. The film, a blend of concert movie and fictional narrative, stars Dane DeHaan as a member of Metallica’s road crew who is sent on a mysterious mission while the band performs at a sold-out arena and events outside grow more bizarre. Bassist Robert Trujillo told me the idea for a Metallica concert film had been around for a while, but the band wanted it to have something extra: “We felt that the missing ingredient was obvious to us and it was some sort of narrative. There needed to be something that co-existed with the music, so it goes beyond just another concert performance. So we took it a step in a different direction, kind of taking a page from Pink Floyd The Wall or Song Remains The Same by Led Zeppelin, somehow creating our own version of that. And really it was trial and error.” Listen for this interview with Rob on hardDrive XL the week of Sep 23-27…Lou Brutus went to see our good friends Halestorm on Saturday in York, PA at the York County Fair. We’ll be posting his shots today on our Facebook. I tried to post here, but my computer was not having it….Eagle Rock is releasing a single-disc Blu-ray and three-disc DVD “definitive” edition of the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, featuring all the combined footage from previous releases with some never before seen, will be issued sometime this fall. The concert in honor of late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury featured performances from Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Elton John, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, David Bowie, the surviving members of Queen and more. Part of the proceeds from sales of the set will be donated to AIDS charities around the world via the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Check out James Hetfield doing “Stone Cold Crazy” with the remaining members of Queen here. And I think Lou Brutus was at that show if I’m not mistaken!…And finally today, Nickelback‘s Chad Kroeger and Marilyn Manson make guest appearances on Avril Lavigne‘s (aka Mrs Kroeger) self-titled fifth album, which is now set for release on Nov 5th. Kroeger, who began dating Lavigne while writing songs for the album and married her earlier this year, also co-produced the record. He duets with his bride on a track called “Let Me Go,” while Manson teams with the pop-rock diva on “Bad Girl.”…Happy 39th today to my pal Marcos Curiel of P.O.D. The band is packing up for their trip to Russia.