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- ESP’s ‘Reign In Blood’ Guitar Celebrates Slayer Album’s 25th Anniversary
- Def Leppard’s Steve Clark: 20th Anniversary Of Guitarist’s Death
- Get Your First Look at Sunday’s Episode of ‘The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’
- Elijah Wood Reportedly Returning For Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’
| Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:40 PM PST  Young artist Rob Cham has reimagined the Marvel superhero team The Fantastic Four as forks... The Fantastic Forks. Quite cute [...]            |
| ESP’s ‘Reign In Blood’ Guitar Celebrates Slayer Album’s 25th Anniversary Posted: 08 Jan 2011 01:59 PM PST  If you're a die-hard Slayer fan with some money to spare, here's a neat collectible for you. Guitar company ESP plans to release a limited-edition Slayer guitar which will feature the cover art from the band's classic 1986 thrash metal album Reign In Blood. The guitar, which is called the LTD Slayer-2011, will have a limited edition of 250 guitars worldwide and celebrates the 25th anniversary of Reign In Blood's release [...]      |
| Def Leppard’s Steve Clark: 20th Anniversary Of Guitarist’s Death Posted: 08 Jan 2011 10:58 AM PST  Today marks an incredible 20 years since the death of Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark. Def Leppard is sometimes, rather unfairly, known simply as 'the band with the one-armed drummer'. Back in the late '70s and for well over a decade, Def Leppard was one of the biggest rock bands in the world, selling albums by the millions and playing sold-out stadium tours across the world. As a part of the NWOBHM* its influence on rock and metal bands since has been immense. A big part of this was down to wildly talented guitarist Steve Clark. Born in Sheffield, England, in 1960 he played guitar from a young age and joined Def Leppard in 1978. One of my favourite stories about Clark came from his Def Leppard audition: he played Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" in its entirety with no backing. He quickly became a key part of the band's songwriting process, contributing both lyrics and music, and was known within the band as 'The Riffmaster'. Sadly Steve Clark battled addictions to alcohol and drugs for many years. He died of an overdose on January 8, 1991 at only 30 years of age [...]      |
| Get Your First Look at Sunday’s Episode of ‘The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’ Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:20 AM PST  The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes is Marvel's latest animated endeavor and it's their best in many years. Marvel sent us some screen captures from this Sunday's episode, so check them out here below. Try to block out the tragedy that was the Saturday morning Avengers cartoon from several years back. The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes does a great job of walking the line between kid-friendly action fest and older adult fan storytelling. There's a great serialized element to the show that is most often used to introduce a new hero or villain. For fans of the comic books, this show is loosely based on Brian Michael Bendis' New Avengers series. The show began with the escape of the earth's most powerful villains and a group of heroes including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Wasp, Ant Man, Hulk, and Black Panther and others assembled to recapture the evil doers. This story is told as if the team didn't previously exist, so there's no baggage from Avengers Disassembled for new fans to be concerned with [...]      |
| Elijah Wood Reportedly Returning For Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ Posted: 08 Jan 2011 07:14 AM PST  Many of the stars of director Peter Jackson's epic trilogy adaptation of The Lord of the Rings have been expected to return for his adaptation of author J.R.R. Tolkien's first classic in the realms of Middle Earth, The Hobbit. And while not all of the actors have been confirmed yet -- Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis, specifically -- it's still assumed that everyone is on board. How could they not want to anyway, right? One name you might never have thought was returning, however, would be that of a one Mr. Elijah Wood, who famously played the lead character of Frodo Baggins, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Frodo is the "nephew" of Bilbo Baggins (played by Ian Holm first and to be played by Martin Freeman in the new films), who's the main character of The Hobbit, which is set many years prior when he was but a young lad. But despite what you may think, it's being reported that Elijah Wood will indeed be joining the cast of The Hobbit. [...]      |
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