It may have just been last June when James Hetfield stood in front of 80,000 people at Download Festival 2012 and called out to his Metallica family over and over, but here’s a photo of James Hetfield with his Hetfield family.
It’s over a year old, having been taken at the Hollywood premiere for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, but the accidental photobomb by The Rock is just exceptional.
Also: Cute family, Jaymz.
On 23 May 2011, grizzled dowsers of internet gossip felt a sharp tug from the direction of the Tool Newsletter, through which the band’s official website manager, Blair McKenzie Blake, put out the following missive:
“No matter how many new TOOL tunes are currently complete, I will personally guarantee that the new CD will be released on MAY 22, 2012 (or MAY 15, 2012).”
And lo, the internets did a crazy. Even though said-same announcement also claimed that those dates came second-hand “via trance-contact (which was written down on a scratch pad) from an interplanetary avatar (and sector commander) named ZEMKLA JR..“, and this confirmation this was a joke three days later on the same site, it still sent Tool fans across the globe into a bit of a state. Well, it’s been fourteen months since that sticky leaf of disinformation was flapped around, and it’s now 6 years (and counting) since 10,000 Days. Just what in the Hell have Tool been up to all this time? We charged Ruth Booth with the task of finding out.
Wrestling is awesome. This is probably why Andy Williams, burly guitarist of Every Time I Die is a big, big wrestling fan. It doesn’t explain why he’s preparing to get in the ring, have the hell kicked out of his Hulk Hogans and then capture it all on film. Regardless, that’s what he’s doing.