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Slayer's Kerry King making Austin bleed at Fun Fun Fun Fest last November

​This morning, the lineup for this summer's mega-metal fest, the Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, was released. It includes re-activated act Slipknot, warhorses Slayer, Anthrax on the Jagermeister side stage, and a third act to be named on March 5. This roadshow hits Houston on July 11 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.

Also included on Mayhem roster on selected dates will be High On Fire, Asking Alexandria, The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying, and Whitechapel. This will easily be the metal show of the summer, barring any stirrings from Sabbath, who more than likely wouldn't hit Houston until the fall.

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​This video (watch it after the jump) claims to collect every single time that Metallica has mentioned death or dying in the band's music, which tallies up to 81 instances. Somehow that seems awfully low to us, being almost life-long Metallica rats, and fans of, well, death. According to the video, Metallica has uttered the words death, dying, de-heath, deadly or dyyyyyiiing more than anything else.

Elsewhere on YouTube, you can also find how many times AC/DC has hailed rock and roll, "Slayer Likes Satan" and an overview of the killing ways of Megadeth and Dave Mustaine.

Personally what we really wanna see is a video that collects every time Bad Religion's Greg Graffin uses doctorate words that you have to Google and read a dissertation on to understand the song better. Anechoic nebula rotating in your brain indeed, Dr. Graffin.

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​Every year the Christmas gods try to throw us the same old boring and tired holiday music. Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley and Hall & Oates are just fine, but this member of Rocks Off needs the blood of the innocent and punishing power chords under his dead, decaying tree. We sought out our five favorite Yuletide metal songs to put in your ear stockings.

You better watch out and you better not cry, because Santa is coming to town to shove some metal up yer ass, kiddies. That sounded a lot better in our head.

Lemmy, Dave Grohl and Billy Gibbons, "Run, Rudolph, Run"

Don't even get us started on how this line-up makes all of our dreams come true. There are no words to describe how awesome this is. We swear, after the new year begins we will retire all Motorhead and Lemmy references. We have that big John Mayer/Slayer show coming up anyway to start man-crushing over as it is.

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It's hard to believe that the next Rocks Off Beatles Rock Band event is only a week away. Next Tuesday, we once again seize Coffee Groundz (2503 Bagby) for another night of dranking and fake guitar-strumming. The cool thing about this party is that it's a Halloween costume party, and you know what that means: drunken slutty cops and Jokers singing "All You Need Is Love." We have been watching plenty of videos like the one above to get costume ideas.

This is Swedish doom legends Candlemass with "Bewitched," from 1987's Nightfall. The video contains random cloaked girls in graveyards and a horde of wispy-'stached Camaro drivers stomping in the snow. Sadly, no music videos exist from their debut album with the coolest name ever: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus.

Pardon Rocks Off this morning, as we still cannot discern some aural tones after the Motorhead show on Friday night. Aside from being astronomically drunk, we decided early on to throw our earplugs in the toilet. Here's some thrashage from the loudest band in heavy metal to start your week off right with a dull buzzing in your ears and a screwed-up equilibrium.

We swear after last week, it's all happy pop-punk and trite religious alternative rock from here on out.

Wake the hell up! It's Monday! You've got shit to do, don't you? Only four more days until Labor Day weekend, and another endless ice chest of Lone Star. Here's some Celtic Frost up your lazy ass, from 1985's To Mega Therion release.

Welcome to the first installment of "Morning Metal," where Rocks Off attempts to wake your lazy asses up with a fistful of metal. We don't intend to actually shove any ferrous materials into your anus, but look, it's better than an alarm clock. You can bet cold hard cash that dudes who make alarm clocks don't get mad laid like metal guys do. Or at least say they do.

This is the first single off Marilyn Manson's new album, which sees him reuniting with longtime band mate Twiggy Ramirez. The High End of The Low hits stores on May 26, but no doubt the whole thing is floating around somewhere in the torrent world.