Call me a cynic but it's ALWAYS about the money and creating a gimmick to market yourself.

Ozzy didn't bite the head off of a bat because it tasted good. Sure he's a crazy mofo to begin with but

Alice Cooper couldn't be any more normal. My dad played golf with him in Maui. I got to ride along. All about the show. Biting the head off a chicken and drinking the blood on stage

Satanism is their gimmick. Appeals to a big group. They may believe it on some level, but it ain't the real thing like Charlie Manson

Some of these guys are just naturally F Ed up human beings but that just makes them that much easier to market!

So at least two guys are in for Slayer, Amendes and Gryzz, who else?

Not to mention operations. I know of several places that wouldn't get WNBJM because of the sexual innuendo. My feeling is this pin would fall into the same category for the Satanist aspect, regardless of how true it actually is.

Make sure you have me marked down for an LE.

What if Stern started running just 1000 machines ? Take it or leave it. One $6k run and done. Would retooling factory make that impossible ?

For non- mainstream titles of course.

Nice choice, LE comes with Kerry King side armour..

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I would have to see and play it first, but if I liked it, then yes I wold definitely be in. Megadeth would be instant buy for me though.

I know. It wouldn't be worth it. But what if Stern had a seperate, in-house team that only did music pins ? They could have a pin for everybodys favorite band and you could go down to yer favorite watering hole and hear their shitty bands pin.
Here's to Jeff.

That's easy
Metallica - Black Album and everything else after
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction

I'm not saying there isn't a few good tunes here and there but for the most part, shit. JMO

Me.

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Love zero the hero !!

They make it, I'm buying a few. One for me and a couple for the route. Slayer is a mainstay on my jukeboxes, so why not operate a few slayer pins. As long as I can get 3 LE's I'm in.

Cruster big ballin. Here's to you and el Jefe.

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I know lots of guys who would buy a Slayer pin, they aren't collectors but they would have to have it, like Kiss to those army freaks.

4 days late than a mug.

To me AJFA was musically great except the mixing/engineering/ recording quality was just awful unless that was the sound they were going for. Black Album is good but completely commercial rock with some metal and marked the complete sell out of Metallica. Pretty much guaranteed we would never get another album near MOP. Bands evolve and try new things. The Beatles, Stones, The Who, Queen, etc. Some bands are amazing and others try to recreate the original magic that made them successful and just fade away.

AC/DC is one of the few bands that just seem to never change. Write hit rock songs, wash/rinse/repeat for 30-40 years.

I haven't followed Slayer recently so I suppose I will give the new one a listen.

I was joking pal. No hard feelings. Just cant pass up a chance to fuck with a Steelers fan.

yep, would buy one for sure!

Haha no worries then ! For the record I'm an import. I do not care for any Pittsburgh teams

Satanism is cool and millennials love it. Hail satan. I love dying and being dead and also playing pinball in hell with my bro beelzebub.

You should give the new Megadeth album a listen to.

I know where your going w/ this but for me it was youthanasia. I agree w/ the rest tho

Sucks ass.

Long, sucky songs that sound paper thin.

I will, its tough after a band makes 2 master pieces like Peace sells and Rust in Peace.

They just had their bus rollover and kill Cliff. They came back with the angriest shit ever put into writing in my humble opinion. And Justice is a fucking bass-less masterpiece.

Megadeth-Dystopia is awesome. Anything Megadeth is an instant buy for me. I also think Metallica-Death Magnetic is a great album, best since the Black album.

Plus And Justice is 9:44 so you can play it after Mountain Jam on the jukebox.

That is by far the most scathing review on AJFA I've ever seen!

I'm with Gryszzz. Any detractors are closet bass players

Don't plan on ever buying another NIB again, but Slayer would be tempting. Would be out if it was a retheme and it would need some pretty amazing toys, but... I'd be tentatively in. Because... Slayer.

No, he did it because he was a hopeless alcoholic and drug addict at the time. Same as when he pissed on the Alamo and got banned from the city. He was totally out of control.

rd

So what are the guys with the usual inside info saying about Stern's upcoming title?

They're saying FUCKIN SLAYER.

Gryszzzzz' excitement level is off the fucking charts!!

rd

Like the Pointer Sisters RD.

Like I said RD, some of these guys are just naturally F ed up human beings. Maybe Sharon told him to do it. The crazy train is part of what made them great. For being "hopeless" he did alright at the end of the day.

He's lucky to make it out of SA alive pissing on the Alamo, he was wearing a dress at the time.

The Oz was banned from the Alamo city until he made a $10k donation to the "Daughters of the Texas Republic", who run the Alamo.

He came back last year with Jack as part of filming a documentary for the history channel i think.

And now he claims he's "not happy with his life", yet he doesn't want to drink or do drugs.

Another case of money and fame can't buy happiness

I fell in love with Slayer when I saw them with Exodus and Venom at the Hollywood Paladium in the 80's. I lost my friends within a minute of entering that place . I left without a shirt and a shoe. I was covered in Blood . My friends were at the truck when I came limping up after the show . all we could say was Fucking Slayer .

Put me down for a Necrophiliac LE.or a Show no Mercy premium

IN's finest.
Indianapolis thrash titans that opened for Slayer.

You sound like the perfect candidate for Black Album... short fluffy pop-metal songs. To your point though, Metallica realized after the AJFA tour that the short catchy stuff is what the masses prefer, and thus was born the Black Album.

AJFA is brilliant in many ways, heady stuff, long compositions that are rare in the rock music industry...it took me a dozen listens before I could get into it and I'd argue it's one of Metallica's best. Opinions are just that but it did get them a Grammy for "One". You can easily obtain many live recordings of the same songs if you didn't like the album production quality, so it's a thin excuse to dislike the songs themselves.

The Grammys gave Jethro Tull the award for Best Metal Album so I don't hold much respect for that organisation.

rd

A lot of people showing their age and ignorance in this thread.

Not sure about the mass appeal of a Slyer pin, but then again I've also hated every big name band to get pin done so far and I was really disappointed in the Rob Zombie one.

Assuming the game looks awesome as it should and as fast as it should be then this would be my first and only NIB game.

Also, the wife would not only approve of it, she would insist on getting it.

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Me neither, never heard of those dudes.

\m/ SLYER!! \m/

rd

That's what's great about opinions, we all get to have a few of our own.

The last GREAT Metallica album was Master Of Puppets.

Everything after that was the downward spiral to Lulu.

Metallica should have got it that year, but they seemed to realize that mistake and gave it to Metallica the next 3 years in a row... then slipped into giving it to the likes of NiN and Soundgarden, before correcting again. They've actually seem to be solid for the past decade giving it to actual metal bands... this year it was given to Ghost, and Slayer has two wins of their own. Unfortunately the category is for performance rather than composition, so they keep nominating cover songs.

The bat probably did not even happen.

The record companies always are making shit up for the gullible fans and media to get excited about.

Rod Stewart having a gallon of sperm pumped out of his stomach, Led Zep screwing the chick with a Mudshark, Marylin Manson cumming in Trent Reznors hair - people will believe anything.....

Manson's ribs being removed was a good one, Richard Gere and the gerbils - I miss all those crazy rumours, stupid internet sense checking things.

Oh yeah, it definitely did. A fan threw it up on stage and he munched it because he thought it was a toy. Off to hospital for rabies shots goes Ozzy. The story has been recounted many times by many different people.

The other famous one was the Dove story, which also has been recounted by many different people who were there.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ozzy-osbourne-dove-bite-head/

That's a definite too. Carmine Appice gives the best account of it, it was either in his room or the room next door (I can't remember) He was talking about it again on Eddie Trunks podcast a month or two back.

That's a lot of jizz .... Don't think that's a real one.

rd

Fake.

Bats weigh nothing (like 1/4 of an ounce), so you could not throw them, being floppy and weightless.

Sometimes you hear that it was a LIVE bat, so you know you are not going to throw that either. "Ozzy bit the bat, AND the bat bit Ozzy - OMFG! Ozzy is soooooo evil"

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One story that is true - Robert Johnson did sell his soul to the Devil.

The actual contract is at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the Devil's signature blood has been DNA tested - 100% authentic.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6209030/Ozzy-Osbourne-describes-biting-head-off-bat.html

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ozzy-bites-the-head-off-a-bat-gruesome-rock-legends/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/ozzy-osbourne/biography

And here is the story of the guy who threw the bat, published in the city where the bat biting took place.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/kyle-munson/2016/01/20/everything-you-need-know-ozzy-osbourne-biting-head-off-bat-des-moines/79055858/

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