Something got me thinking about Nuclear Assault today. Now, I was never a big NA fan but every once in a while I'd have to dig through the old tape collection (hehe - cassette tapes, remember those?) to find the Nuclear Assault. One listen every 8-10 months was I all needed (or could stand). Something about the singer's voice and the low-quality production with the mid just cranked through the fucking roof on the guitars. Like any good drug, I guess, small doses were a blast but linger too long and you'll pay. Anyway, I'm curious about what ever happened to those guys. Now I could just go hit google and find out which Pizza Hut the guitar player is managing these days (that seems to be the fate of all good thrash band members) but I thought I'd share the flashback with everyone here first.

Never a big fan of the holidays, I'll concede that Thanksgiving is at least good for food and alcohol (if you happen to live in the U.S. and are forced to celebrate this shit). Stuffing, pecan pie and Captain Morgan - Fuck Yeah! Crappy Thanksgiving everyone.

For those of you who have never had the opportunity to tune into XM or Sirius satellite radio, consider yourself fortunate for having missed out on the current trainwreck. Both companies had several channels devoted to everything from hard rock to punk to death metal (okay, there was never any death metal on Sirius). As part of their recent merger, they have trimmed the channel selection down and combined multiple genres of of rock and metal into a single clusterfuck of a channel. They've kept the same lame-ass DJ's from Sirius and watered everything down to Def Tones and Black Sabbath. Now I don't have anything against those bands but we've got an FM radio station in my city that plays that kind of stuff any way. The whole allure of satellite radio was the wide selection of all types of music. Now that they've mainstreamed what is supposed to be their hardest channel (Liquid Metal), there really is no compelling reason to pay for a subscription. What's worse, they did this without consulting or even notifying their subscribers. Given that they're mostly commercial free and depend on subscribers for income, this is a slap in the face. Their site offers no obvious mechanism for feedback so I've submitted a complaint to the FCC regarding the merger and the significant reduction in choice that it has resulted in. I would encourage anyone with similar feelings to do the same. FCC Complaint Form

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