Wow. Yikes. I remember when every male at the punk rock club where I worked slinging beer when I was underage looked JUST LIKE THESE EARLY METALLICA PHOTOS. And there was this one guy with the longest, best blonde hair who was in this badass metal band and I had the biggest crush on him even though I didn’t actually like the music and wow. I am old. I dig 6 of 36 of these pics for Lars’ hair and Jason’s “Dude…wait, what?” facial expression. Also, how old is Kirk there? 14? Doesn’t he look like he should be chewing bubblegum and skateboarding in your empty backyard swimming pool until you come from work and catch him then have to call his Mom who snaps at you to butt out and not tell her how to raise her son Goddammit?
Then five years later he looks like this? (10 of 36) Dude. What did you do in those five years that aged you 20? Besides a lot of drugs and rocking, I mean. And growing that weird little half-arsed beard that makes me think of Anton LaVey…
OK, a search for Lavey images for comparative purposes taught me Kirk’s facial hair actually isn’t anything like LaVey’s so I don’t know what I was thinking. The search, however, did turn up this creepy guy’s website that asks the age-old question “WAS BARBARA BUSH’S FATHER THE FAMOUS SATANIST ALLEISTER CROWLEY [????]” Whoa! Yer freakin’ me out man.
Scroll down and the conversation turns to Ronnie James Dio but, despite the fact that the website is called Sabbath Rock, I get the distinct impression that this guy is anti Sabbath in the Ozzy and Ronnie sense of the word (lest you forget about Ronnie’s period fronting the band) and pro Sabbath in some other more religious and less guitar heavy kind of way – but still riding the Crazy Train – that has to do with world leaders being Satanists. But that’s all I could figure out before needing to get away from him – warning: gross pictures you don’t need to see unless you’re one of those people who enjoys rotten.com.
So, this gallery reminded me that I have yet to hear Death Magnetic and that I probably won’t be able to just hop about the web a bit and get it for free, Metallica being SO UPTIGHT about all this downloading business, about which they may have a point but which sucks when you want free stuff. Ha! Remember this video from Camp Chaos Productions? An oldie but a goodie. Fire Bad!
