#Tom Staley

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Bad movie I have Beast from Haunted Cave 1959 and Ski Troop Attack 1960

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Layne Staley (Alice in Chains), Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Scott Ian (Anthrax) & Tom Araya (Slayer) during the "Clash of Titans" tour-1991.

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Jerry with director Cameron Crowe and actor Tom Cruise during the making of the movie 🎬 "Jerry Maguire" | 1996.

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Class of '99 - Another Brick In The Wall

I think the Class of '99 performance of Another Brick in The Wall may be the prime example of why a band made up of entirely amazing musicians were a dumb idea. Everyone does a good job (save for Layne Staley but he had no teeth and was actively dying) but they're all overshadowed by each other. Tom Morello barely had any moments to even shine through and get a good moment in. I mean with this caliber of superstar musician, you'd expect to hear the best from all of them, but you never really hear that from any one of them. It's a good cover, but i don't think it does anything special that the original doesn't do better.

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Class of 99 - Another Brick in the Wall

Ok, so - todays review is something strange, it's one of those projects where I just wonder who pressed the green light. Not, of course because it was a bad idea, but what were they trying to make happen and why didn't it go further? Class of 99 is a super group consisting of Layne Staley, Tom Morello, Stephen Perkins Martyn LeNoble and Matt Serletic. They don't have a full record out, to my knowledge. But they do have a cover of Pink Floyd's "The Wall." I think doing a cover of Pink Floyd or The Beatles or any other classic band you are setting yourself up. I think that is a very high bar to try to reach. I sincerely appreciate their unique sound and mix of artists that came together to give us an alternative rock cover. I guess the best way to describe the sound is that alternative late 90s sound that blended into the early 2000s rock sound. I quite like it and live to hear Tom Morello rip some riffs.

I am going to use a device dealing with context used by John Berger in his essay on art titled Ways of Seeing. So please go listen to the track before you finish this review.

According to the magazine Revolver this performance was the last time Staley was in a studio before his drug overdose in 2002.

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Authors who contributed to Astounding Stories of Super-Science, in chronological order of the first story they wrote:

Victor Rousseau Emanuel

Sterner St. Paul Meek

Ray Cummings

M. L. Staley

Charles Victor Tench

Murray Leinster

Anthony Pelcher

Harold Vincent Schoepflin

Charles Willard Diffin

Hugh Barnett Cave

Sophie Wenzel Ellis

Will Smith

R. J. Robbins

Sewell Peaslee Wright

A. T. Locke

Thomas Holt Knight

Arthur Josephus Burks

Tom Curry

Lilith Lorraine

James P. Olsen

Roman Frederick Starzl

Edmond Hamilton

Harold Thompson Rich

Miles John Breuer, M.D.

Paul Ernst

Robert Henry Leitfred

Jackson Gee

William Merriam Rouse

Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

David R. Sparks

Hal K. Wells

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About Me:

Hey, I'm Kat✌️ I honestly have no clue what this is but I'm trying🥲 Anyways, if you like any of the things below, we should be friends bc I love fangirling with people, & even if you're not interested in any of these things, I'd still love to talk & make new friends:)

Random things I love:

Music (CDs especially😩🫦)

Monkeys (I have so many stuffed monkeys, lol)

Dinosaurs (I act like a child😔)

Plants/flowers (I have a ton & I name them after celebs)

The 90s (music, clothes, pop culture)

Movies (comedy & horror, but I love corny 80s movies)

Fandoms:

Alien (Tokio Hotel)

Jackass/CKY

Maggot (Slipknot)

The Sturniolo triplets

The Outsiders

EST - MGK (pls don't come after me, I'm just a girl😭)

Guys:

Bam Margera

Ville Valo

Ryan Dunn

Kurt Cobain

Tom Kaulitz

MGK

Matt Sturniolo

Chris Sturniolo

Layne Staley

Bands/artists:

Matt Dillon

Joey Jordison

Nirvana

Alice In Chains

Bush

Pixies

Placebo

HIM

CKY

Bloodhound Gang

Slipknot

$uicideboy$

Lil Peep

MGK

I might add more later, but this is it for now. Feel free to message me or send an ask!

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Rare picture of Layne Escaping from the L.A Riots on the way to Joshua Tree.. in the ack of Tom Araya's car :)) ©️1992

📸 By Alison Dyer

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What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

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Philly’s HIGH LEAF Lift Off with ‘Vision Quest’

~Review by Tom Hanno~

The Philadelphia stoner merchants in HIGH LEAF are preparing to drop their debut album on May 5th! The band, whose lineup consists of lead guitarist Patrick Fiore, Corey Presner on vocals and guitar, bassist Brian Schmidt, and drummer Dean Welsh, have created eight tracks that are influenced by grunge, stoner metal/rock, heavy psych, etc. These songs have all of the traits that are commonplace in the genre while still offering up something that feels fresh and exciting, yet familiar as well. That album is called 'Vision Quest' (2023), and it is the reason we've gathered here today.

Their first single ever is "Green Rider", opening the proceedings with a big bong hit followed by a long exhale. The fuzz factor of that first riff may make you think of a hazy, smoke filled room containing four stoners creating music for other stoners. There's an obvious Sleep influence going on, though with a vocal approach that is varied and incredible. Corey has bits and pieces of his influences that come through in his vocals, but he turns them into his own style without mimicking any of them.

LISTEN: High Leaf - "Green Rider"

"Vision Quest" sees High Leaf delving into their more psychedelic side for a great majority of the song, fortifying it with bluesy stoner sections, a Pink Floyd-esque feel, and ending the track with a grungy stoner metal vibe that features vocals influenced by the legendary singers that came to prominence in the '90s.

"Subversive" has a vocal style that will appeal to fans of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, while the music pulls from both stoner and grunge genres. This is a powerful track that is packed with beefy riffs, and a solid rhythmic backbone. It is one of, if not the best song on Vision Quest, so anyone with an ear for this genre will absolutely love what High Leaf laid down here!

"Dead Eye" marks the halfway point of Vision Quest, steamrolling its way in with a fat sounding riff that is superb! As with the other tracks, this features more of Corey's excellent vocals, and the ultra thick riffs that are a staple of the High Leaf sound. It's not the best song on this record, but isn't weak in any way either.

"Hard to Find" continues on with the high quality music that the first half of the record displayed, with the difference being that there is a hard rock vibe that harkens back to the '80s and '90s. Corey also brings in an even more diverse display of his talents, and while this isn't my favorite track, it is my favorite performance of his. Pat pulls off a perfect lead on this track too, it's completely suited to the song and shows that he's got the chops needed to create memorable solos.

"Painted Desert" begins by briefly showcasing the drum and bass skills of Brian and Dean before the guitars enter. There's a serious Layne Staley meets Scott Weiland sound within the vocals, while the music is the stonerized version of Pearl Jam-esque grunge that you didn't know you needed, but will want more of after you get it. It's a quick track that's absolutely killer from beginning to end.

"March to the Grave" and "The Rot" are the final tracks on Vision Quest, and they both have all of the elements that High Leaf has given listeners since the "Green Rider" single started playing. Of the two I found that I prefer "The Rot," it's a bit more diverse sounding musically and vocally, but both songs are excellent examples of what this band can do.

Vision Quest is a stunning debut record in every way. These Philly stoner diehards are as talented as their music exhibits, and are sure to win over even the most stubborn music fan with their take on the genre. This simply means that you will find something to love even if you aren't totally sold on stoner music, as the fuzzed out riffs will work their way into your subconscious and refuse to leave. So head to Spotify to check out their lead off single as you wait for it to become available on Bandcamp. Enjoy!

Vision Quest by HIGH LEAF

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Vid Recs!

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20 Greatest Comebacks in Hard-Rock and Heavy-Metal History

These artists shook the world by rising from the ashes

Heavy music is for underdogs and comeback kids, anyone who has been considered down and out, but kicked and scratched to earn respect and make their place in this unforgiving world. It's no wonder then that headbangers love a good comeback story — and that heavy music has been full of them.

From unexpected reunion tours to dazzling new albums that rival the records that made them famous in the first place, here are 20 of the most surprising and inspiring comebacks in all of metal, punk and hard-rock history.

Having sold over 50 million copies worldwide, Back in Black is the bestselling hard-rock album of all time, an accomplishment that's all the more incredible considering that AC/DC recorded it just months after the 1980 death of revered singer Bon Scott. The group considered disbanding but ultimately continued with the blessing of Scott's family, and their comeback album — with its opening bell tolls and equally resonant title — is heavy music's definitive statement of rebirth

When lead vocalist Layne Staley passed away in 2002, it seemed like the final nail in the coffin of Alice in Chains, who had already been largely sidelined for years due to substance abuse issues. But in 2005, the surviving members reconvened to play shows, and soon after, enlisted new singer William DuVall and made their first original record in 14 years, 2009's Black Gives Way to Blue. Named Revolver's Album of that Year, it stands up to anything in their discography, and they've continued to chug along ever since. 

No record inspired more contemporary metalcore (see Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Darkness Hour, et al) than Slaughter of the Soul, these Swedish melodic death metallers' final studio album, released a year before their 1996 breakup. To say that their return to the stage in 2008 was meaningful to a generation of metalheads who never got to see them live is like saying fans at those reunion shows were singing along to every word of "Blinded by Fear": They were fucking screaming along to every word.

Drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan was a childhood friend to his bandmates and a major songwriter to his band, so when he died unexpectedly in late 2009, it was a crushing blow that nearly ended the group. But Avenged Sevenfold rallied and called in one of Sullivan's idols, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, to record on and tour behind their mostly completed new record, Nightmare. It debuted at No. 1 on the charts, A7X's first album to do so, and re-ignited the band's passion to push ahead.

Carcass' comeback came in waves. The Birmingham, U.K., death-grind trailblazers blew people's minds when they re-materialized onstage in 2008 after a whopping 12 years out of the game, and the tours that followed weren't just lazy cash grabs — the dudes could still rip. However, even more impressive was their 2013 comeback album, Surgical Steel, arriving 17 years after their last and legitimately rivaling all of the material from their Nineties heyday. It's one of the greatest reunion albums in metal. Period. 

Celtic Frost's reunion was short-lived but monumental. Having been a crucial building block in the extreme-metal fortress, the Swiss band — helmed by the core duo of Thomas Gabriel Fischer, a.k.a. Tom G. Warrior, and Martin Eric Ain — came roaring back in 2006 with the stunningly great Monotheist and a career-celebrating world tour, including U.S. dates with Type O Negative. Sadly, the album proved to be both reunion record and swan song, the final nail put in the band's coffin when Ain died in 2017 at age 50.

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There's only one word to describe what it was like when Faith No More reunited to play shows over 10 years after the alt-metal superheroes fell to pieces: EPIC. With vocalist Mike Patton's calendar seemingly always packed with a variety of zany projects, it seemed impossible that he would ever find the time. That FNM would then later release their first new album in nearly two decades, 2015's Sol Invictus, and it would be awesome — well, that was a minor miracle.

How do you pick up the pieces when you're the drummer of the most important rock band on the planet and your frontman dies by suicide? Well, you become the frontman of your own band, of course, write hit single after hit single, and sell over 10 million albums in the U.S. alone. Amid this, you use your now-astronomical fame to spotlight your favorite metal singers with a killer side project (check Probot ASAP, if you're not already in the know). Dave Grohl now faces another tragedy — the death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins — but we know he'll come back again, stronger than ever.

The name of GN'R's initial reunion run says it all: The Not in This Lifetime... Tour. Because that's how improbable the reconciliation of Axl, Slash and Duff seemed for a long-ass time. Bad blood and bitter words constituted their decades apart, but it turns out, all fans needed was a little patience. The trek — which spanned from 2016 to 2019, and marked the core trio's first performances together in nearly 25 years — owns the title of the third-highest-grossing concert tour of all time. Even more amazing, the guys are still getting along and the reunion continues.

At the end of Bruce Dickinson's then-final concert with Maiden in 1993, magician Simon Drake "killed" him, using the band's titular torture device. Far from dead, the vocalist pursued a successful solo career while his bandmates recorded their two least successful albums to that point, with singer Blaze Bayley. But when Dickinson returned in 1999, it sounded as if they hadn't missed a step. These days, Maiden continue to sell out stadiums playing great material both new and old, cementing their spot as metal's still-vital pioneers.

In 2005, after becoming a born-again Christian, OG guitarist Brian "Head" Welch left the band that had made him famous: As the joke went, "Korn gave Head to God." The nu-metal godfathers soon also split with founding drummer David Silveria, and spent years trying to re-find themselves creatively. When Head re-joined the group onstage at Carolina Rebellion in 2012, it seemed like a heartwarming one-off, but a year later he was back for good. Korn have been on a hot streak ever since, with 2019's The Nothing standing out, in particular, as their best album in over a decade.

"No warning?" asked Dave Mustaine when Metallica booted him over his erratic behavior in 1983. "No second chance?" He wouldn't get one from them, but the thrash-metal world welcomed him back later that year with a new group, named after a word he found on a pamphlet during his bus ride home to L.A. from Metallica's New York abode. Within the decade, Megadeth would become the second-best-selling metal band of their generation, and they're a still a genre pillar to this day. 

2016 was an amazing year for reunions. First, GN'R, then the Misfits. In fall of that year, founding members Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only — plus Only's brother, guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein — performed together for the first time in 33 years, under the name the Original Misfits. For a gnarly, underground horror-punk band that played basements in their first incarnation, the results were incredible, culminating in a monumental sold-out headlining gig at Madison Square Garden.

Even though fans clamored for it for years, Mudvayne didn't come back until it was fully on their own damn terms, which made their eventual comeback all the more special. The alt-metal aliens ended their 12-year hiatus with a few chaotic festival shows in 2021 (including one when frontman Chad Gray played while suffering from COVID) and then hauled ass across the country on a 2022 summer tour that rejuvenated them as bandmates and fully made up for all the lost time. Now, new music is even on the way.

To many punks, metalheads and goths who grew up in the 2000s, My Chemical Romance are their Nirvana. The New Jersey band lifted emo's ragged hooks and raunchy guitars out of VFW halls and into stadiums, built up a formidable discography — and then dipped for six years while their legacy metastasized. The way they've conducted their momentous reunion — playing shows with young openers, packing the setlists with hits, and dropping their heaviest song yet as a one-off single — has ensured that they've still got their edge.

Rage Against the Machine's latest reunion has been one of tension and release. After nine years, they were supposed to hit the stage in 2020 until the pandemic squashed that — and then again, and then again while the world grew shittier and the band's political screeds became more relevant than ever. Finally, they took the power back in summer 2022, and played riotously hard through Zack de la Rocha's leg injury, staying true to their convictions and reaffirming their status as all-time greats. 

Sepultura were at the height of their power and popularity in 1996, having released a career-defining album, Roots, early that year. Then everything went to shit, and the Brazilian metal trailblazers acrimoniously split with founding frontman Max Cavalera, whose brother, Igor, remained in the band. Suddenly unmoored, Max had a lot to prove and lots of pressure. He responded with a new band, Soulfly. The group's self-titled 1998 debut was a "life-changing" success, Max told Revolver, complete with the song he's most proud of: "Eye for an Eye."

System of a Down had only been releasing music and touring at a national level for eight years when, at the height of their Grammy-winning notoriety, they decided to go on hiatus in 2006. Suddenly dissolving at the peak of their powers like that was devastating, so when they reunited for a string of shows in 2011, it felt like an act of divine intervention. After gigging sporadically in the ensuing decade, they dropped their first songs in 16 years in 2021. C'mon, guys: Now we need that album. 

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Uma Obra Em Construção, II:

"Um Ébrio Adicto, Pt. 1"

Não me sigas

E se eu virar apócrifo, não divulge

Não me julgue e não me sugue, to em vida, mas não sou Cristo

Eles encapuzados, porém sou eu quem não é visto

E eu até prefiro; Tipo pruma gata, prometi no fim:

Não volto mais, mas caso sim, eis a desonra do espadachim

Tipo Russ em Cherry Hill, a fool by all means

Mas deve ser culpa das cartas que foram dadas assim

Não manjo de poker, sou mais de virar a mesa

Mas não quebro a banca, vou all-in na presa

E se o foco é dinheiro, até caço cabeças

De estátuas francesas pra adormecer as fraquezas

Porém, não me sigas

Sou meramente o fruto caído, não podre, mas tido

Se eu virar apócrifo bíblico, sou proibido

Me visto com as roupas e armas de quem não é o Tom Riddle

Dear God, I'm sorry to disturb you

But this is the way I pray

Blame it on my suburban youth

And take everything away

Dear God, all that I ask of you

Is to let me enlighten you

Living my life's not hard enough

Burn me alive, inside

Quando misturei meu tarja preta e vinho, vi

Dum lado, o breu do teto preto, do outro, um caminho

Mas já tá escrito, ninguém poda as asas do passarinho

Mas eles não passarão e não calarão o que há em mim, pô

Mas não me julgues; Não opine, e nem me sepulcres

Invento palavras só pra eu não ser fúnebre

Modelo contextos pra que a mensagem perdure

E que Deus me cure; É tênue a linha, e que ela segure

Te juro, caderno, já naveguei por um dos rios do inferno

E eu em febre de enfermo, só que em termos internos

E o café vai no bule, Deus, não me abandone no inverno

Cause Dear God, I'm sorry to disturb you

But this is the way I pray

Blame it on my suburban youth

And take everything away

Dear God, all that I ask of you

Is to let me enlighten you

Living my life's not hard enough

Burn me alive, inside

I pray not to novacaine my end

I pray to get older than Layne Staley

I pray to never touch Snow White again

I pray not to novacaine my end because lately I...

Dear God...