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CELINE DION Is A Heavy Metal Fan
- Nov. 11, 2007
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Powerhouse pop singer Celine Dion, who has made her name and her fortune with sweet ballads about love, has revealed to Australia's The Sunday Telegraph that she is a closet heavy metal fan. So much so that her warm-up song while doing sound checks is almost invariably the AC/DC belt-it-out classic "Thunderstruck". "I like hard rock and, if I'm doing stadiums, I want the engineers to crank the sound system up high with rock and roll, heavy metal music— it helps me to get the adrenalin rushing," she said. "I've been a big fan of AC/DC for about 15 years or 20 years — the sound guys introduced me to them (their music)." Dion previously covered the AC/DC classic "You Shook Me All Night Long" as a duet with Anastacia on the VH1 CD/DVD release "Divas Las Vegas 2002", out via Sony Music. Watch video footage of the performance below.
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COMMENT |
posted by : God Of Reptiles
11/11/2007 4:48:50 AM
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I bet she only listens to the most raw and primitive black metal.
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COMMENT | haha
posted by : vintage1986
11/11/2007 4:57:58 AM
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thats awesome. maybe they should collaborate?
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COMMENT |
posted by : CraigD
11/11/2007 5:06:42 AM
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My life is now complete
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:09:44 AM
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I think that many metalheads (myself not included) are closet Celine Dion fans too, so that seems to fit perfectly.
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COMMENT | ACDC
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:09:47 AM
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Are fine being called metal. They laid a lot of the groundwork for some of the biggest names to take on the guise of the word metal. They are one of the most influential bands of all time and Between them, Metallica, Led Zep, and Sabbath, thats pretty much everything you'd ever need to know about metal. So yes, AC/DC can indeed be called metal as it is only an extension of Rock and Roll.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:11:50 AM
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ACDC is not metal, they never will be. celine dion doesnt know what metal is.
she should have stayed in the closet.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:16:51 AM
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Since when were Zeppelin ever metal?
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COMMENT |
posted by : Sabbathman
11/11/2007 5:30:37 AM
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Celine Dion would outshine every female metal/rock vocalist if she wanted...Celine has a great, wide and beautiful voice, truly a singer with a professional style and technique.
She could easily do a heavy rock/metal album if she wanted; all they have to do is to get some professional players around her and that's it!
The first album could well be "Celine Dion - In Rock" or something like that...
Think about her soaring with her voice and presence on some powerful heavy rock song...with long black boots, short skirt, tight top, dark cat-like make-up...phew!!!
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:35:51 AM
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never heard of this woman singer.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:40:39 AM
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Please tell me we're not arguing over how metal her taste in music is? I suggest we all go out and get on with our lives....
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:48:21 AM
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Maybe not Metal but Hard rock so that's kinda cool I have to say...
It looks like some people would prefer her to say she likes rap and bullshit crap like this over AC/DC! Come on!
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COMMENT | I knew it
posted by :
11/11/2007 6:01:50 AM
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her stage clothes look like that of Ozzy's in the 70s. lol
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 6:23:28 AM
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unbelievable voice shes got
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 6:26:17 AM
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I heard she was the original bassist for Mayhem.
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COMMENT | Of course she likes metal...
posted by :
11/11/2007 6:44:54 AM
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...take the last N away and what do you have?
DIO.
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COMMENT |
posted by : Darth Sexy
11/11/2007 7:28:57 AM
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Hopefully she'll wear corpse paint on her next tour. Shit, I'd go to see it.
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COMMENT | sabbathman
posted by :
11/11/2007 7:57:22 AM
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That is the lamest post I have read in a long time... thanks.
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COMMENT | Yeh OK...
posted by : Guitargod1219
11/11/2007 8:23:21 AM
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I'm sure she's the world's biggest 2 LIVE CREW fan too...
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COMMENT | now i can go kill myself
posted by :
11/11/2007 8:37:01 AM
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celine should burn. not that acdc are metal, but she cannot try to mimic angus young!!!! worst cover ever!
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COMMENT | Historically
posted by :
11/11/2007 8:43:23 AM
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Sabbath and Zep were called metal. It wasn't till Eddie Van Halen showed up on the scene to speed the guitar up that things began to branch off in another direction.
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COMMENT |
posted by : ithyphallical
11/11/2007 8:55:55 AM
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news of the day!!!
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COMMENT |
posted by : Dichatomy
11/11/2007 8:57:46 AM
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Honestly, I'm surprised there aren't more posts bashing Celine and her status on the kvlt-o-meter.
But it's still early...
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COMMENT | acutally...
posted by :
11/11/2007 9:30:57 AM
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back in the day, you used to see her at a lot of crossover shows. and if you pause the video, look for biohazard tattoo. the interviewer probably cut out the references to the crumbsuckers because he figured it was too obscure a reference.
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COMMENT | ps.
posted by :
11/11/2007 9:33:45 AM
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"CELINE DIO!"
Unless someone can come up with an audio-video clip based on that concept, we've got a winner for this topic, and we can all just get back to baggin' on Avenged Sevenfold.
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COMMENT | that guitar solo!
posted by :
11/11/2007 9:53:06 AM
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and i didn't see anything about that guitar solo, wow, terrible, did they say that was nikki sixx? lol shit
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COMMENT | big fuckin' deal
posted by :
11/11/2007 10:20:06 AM
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...my 60 year old mother and mother in law both love ""You Shook Me All Night Long." I would exactly call them metalheads.
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COMMENT | Oh for fucks sake
posted by :
11/11/2007 10:33:46 AM
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AC/DC are NOT heavy metal, no matter what the hell the media called them 30 years ago! Led Zep, AC/DC, Van Halen... never metal at all. It's all hard rock, and people who can't distinguish hard rock from heavy metal are fucking stupid. It's like night and day. Just because night in day happen in the same twenty four hour span doesn't make them the same. The media doesn't what the hell metal is, and Celine (and the ignorant posters in this thread so far) don't know the difference between heavy metal and hard rock as evidenced by their words. Heavy metal as a term has been around a lot longer than heavy metal the genre.
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COMMENT |
posted by : TheEagle
11/11/2007 10:37:58 AM
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All those bands people refers to were proto-metal but still have their place in Metal's history. Celine Dion might not have a broad knowledge of the genre but at least she's not hiding it under the carpet like so many others.
Pop artists are so afraid of what people will think of them if they reveal something as 'unusual' as 'I like AC/DC'. Damn, JimaCarey likes Cannibal Corpse..how cool is that?
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COMMENT | You should hear
posted by : JayinOhio
11/11/2007 10:39:03 AM
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her cover of Jesus Saves!
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COMMENT |
posted by : madeinquebec
11/11/2007 11:10:54 AM
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The other girl is Quebec super-singer and long-ass-fucking-time backup singer LULU HUGHES, she's got BIG voice, her and her brother. Solo part made by Meridith Brooks...
A change from the adult pop stuff...
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COMMENT | "Dis one goes out.....to ....the ........ survivors"
posted by : hlt666
11/11/2007 11:23:26 AM
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The water's of the icy north Atlantic. That night it 1915 when the Titanic was swllowed up by tremdous gash. This is for the people in New Orleans. Send them a kayak. Let them touch it! Now that I don't have to pay off Renee's gambling debts in Vegas any more, I can make some real cake out on the road opening for King Diamond! He and I can drink tea before the show and hold hands inside a pentagram and pray to Satan.
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COMMENT | whatmetal?
posted by : kevin242
11/11/2007 11:25:29 AM
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since when is AC/DC metal?
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COMMENT | Where is Riotact666?????
posted by : Bastard Fetus Eaters
11/11/2007 11:27:17 AM
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I figure he'd be saying how "metal" Celine is and can't wait for her new album.
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COMMENT | AC/DC is METAL*
posted by :
11/11/2007 11:31:04 AM
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Maybe if we add a "*" after "metal" all will be happy. Than after the "*" we could say, "Some douchebags cry when you call AC/DC metal".
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COMMENT |
posted by : Drumblast
11/11/2007 11:40:04 AM
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PITCH CORRECTION on Anastacia's mic.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
11/11/2007 11:59:52 AM
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Way to go, Bori. You've found one hell of a way to get some of the lamest people on the internet to argue in the great debate of "is it metal?".
Genre arguments make me laugh, people look so fucking stupid.
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COMMENT | Huh...what?
posted by :
11/11/2007 12:09:28 PM
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As long as King Diamond doesn't cover My Heart Will Go On, then were okay!
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COMMENT | Well, CELINE says...
posted by :
11/11/2007 12:48:32 PM
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(fake French accent from the Saturday Night Live skits):
"AC/DC is ze mossst metal band... in theee worrrld!"
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COMMENT |
posted by : CapnNsaNeO
11/11/2007 12:57:43 PM
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She's not very metal and her music sucks..but I would tap it. She's a GILF like Cher, i love those old sexy broads
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COMMENT | Why do people cry...
posted by :
11/11/2007 1:55:12 PM
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...When it's obvious that their favorite band isn't metal in the slightest? "Wah wah, AC/DC isn't metal, my life is over unless I try to cover it up!"
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COMMENT | Somewhat generational
posted by : Paradosis
11/11/2007 2:39:32 PM
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I've often wondered if the issue isn't somewhat generational. A lot of people growing up in the 70's (my father's generation) seem to put thing in the metal category that I would put in the hard rock, and even rock, categories. To me, AC/DC is hard rock, and groups like Zep and Van Halen just rock (Not that Zeppelin and Deep Purple and so forth don't have a place in the history of the metal genre, of course). I read a book one time that was supposed to be a history of heavy metal--not rock, not hard rock, but metal. 85% or more of the book was spent on AC/DC, Aerosmith, Van Halen, etc. Van Halen got like 40 pages, and Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer got like 20 pages COMBINED. It sort of reminds me of the scene at the end of the Spinal Tap movie, where two band members are congratulating themselves for playing rock and not that new-fangled "headbanging bullshit".
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COMMENT |
posted by : Dichatomy
11/11/2007 3:08:58 PM
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So what if Celine likes AC/DC or not? So what if it's not really "metal"?
Who knows, maybe she would've made for a decent rock or metal singer. But considering time she got into the industry, there weren't many females in rock or metal, so she might not have been given a chance if she took that route. I don't care for her music (although I did sorta like one of her earliest English speaking songs when it came out), but will admit she's a damn good singer.
Michael Bolton started off as a metal singer (Blackjack) and has distanced himself far away from his roots. I'll bet he never bothers to mention his past. Ron Keel turned his back on metal for years, then heard the feedback and returned.
Since we're on the topic of heavy before heavy metal, there's some early Aerosmith that's quite heavy. The Beatles had a few songs one might consider heavy, and Iron Butterfly's 'In-A Gadda-Da-Vida' comes to mind as well.
A song does not have to be loud and fast to be heavy. There's more to it that that, stuff that can't always be put down in words.
Besides, who knows what'll be considered metal in 10 to 20 years or how metal today's going to be seen?
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COMMENT |
posted by : ViggoOfCarpathia
11/11/2007 3:20:53 PM
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"I bet she only listens to the most raw and primitive black metal."
Ha.
She sings from her throat.. So what if she can hold out a note. a LOT of female rock/metal vocalists have definition in their voice, which counts. She sings soft rock, and AC/DC is the most over-rated band to this date.
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COMMENT | Y'know I thought Brian was a great replacement for Bon....
posted by :
11/11/2007 3:45:09 PM
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But where was Celine Dion in 1980!!??
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COMMENT | ^
posted by : Ultimate Warrior
11/11/2007 3:49:13 PM
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she was with her father, Dio....helping him pen classics such as Holy Diver and Rainbow in the Dark.
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COMMENT | Random
posted by :
11/11/2007 3:56:15 PM
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AC/DC isn't really metal...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3hgVTvqBTA
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COMMENT | ACDC's music...
posted by : Underbody
11/11/2007 5:05:49 PM
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is all based on blues.
Metal's beginnings... based on blues.
Sabbath and Zeppelin being two of the highest profile bands to enhance blues music with distorted guitars and lyrics laced with occult references. The combination of this with the addition of the speed of punk is what gave us the Metal music that we know and love today.
While AC/DC, or Zeppelin, would not be considered Metal by today's standards, they were heavy influences on the beginning of the genre.
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COMMENT | EL PENDEJO takes the lead!
posted by :
11/11/2007 5:07:07 PM
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The Dio joke was great, but the term "Metal *" could revolutionize the way we talk about metal. Bloody brilliant!
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COMMENT | Is It Metal?
posted by : AAronDavidRocks
11/11/2007 7:01:03 PM
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I guess AC/DC is closer to Hard Rock than METAL.
You ever notice that music stores have a funny way of separating their Pop/Rock & METAL sections?
I was at an FYE not too long ago picking up the new Type O Negative. System of a Down was under Pop/Rock. I would consider that METAL.
By The Way, AC/DC was under Pop/Rock.
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COMMENT | Morningrise
posted by :
11/11/2007 8:36:57 PM
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Celine Dion is fucking kvlt.
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COMMENT |
posted by : zeets
11/12/2007 12:44:00 AM
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somebody shoot her
she did a "hair metal" song with aldo nova back in 1984 or so......that sucked too
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COMMENT | whatever she is...
posted by : ledd
11/12/2007 3:14:41 AM
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she sucks dogs' fucking ball
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COMMENT | ten bonus points...
posted by :
11/12/2007 7:37:25 AM
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for the aldo nova reference.
"those that don't know their history are doomed to repeat it."
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COMMENT | ac/dc metal or not
posted by : summerteef
11/12/2007 10:13:14 AM
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this cover is ridiculous!
and not in a good way....
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COMMENT | celine dion facts:
posted by : alerxstinwonderland
11/12/2007 10:37:20 AM
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before celine dion reads the morning newspaper she inverts it
she once got pregnant just so she could have an abortion
my heart will go on's original title was "my heart will go on (to walk among the living in the shadow of the pale horns of baphomet pt ii, the encircling of shadows)
she almost pulled the song from the movie titanic when she found out that some people actually survived the crash, only renegging when kate winslet agreed to show her tits in the films final cut.
celine vomits after every meal, not because shes bulimic because she's a sick motherf*cker
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COMMENT | Unholy
posted by :
11/12/2007 11:19:53 AM
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Celine Dion plays unholy black metal exclusively.
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COMMENT | Led Zep not metal? WTF?
posted by :
11/12/2007 1:39:41 PM
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What's up with this:
"posted by : Rotting Elvis
Since when were Zeppelin ever metal?"
and this:
"posted by : Underbody
While AC/DC, or Zeppelin, would not be considered Metal by today's standards, they were heavy influences on the beginning of the genre."
Next, are you going to say: "Iron Butterfly isn't metal"?!? Do either of you even know where the term "metal" and "heavy metal" came from. Hint: LED Zeppelin...IRON Butterfly. These bands didn't "influence" modern metal, they created it, pioneered it and branded it. It's like saying "Dad might have called Coltrane jazz, but for me, it's nothing like Kenny G". No farking shiat, really?
Google before you try and post "history", or better still, just ask your parents.
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COMMENT | I'm gonna be sick
posted by :
11/13/2007 8:20:58 PM
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Could Celine Dion doing this song be any LESS rocking? I'd cut my eyeballs out but I'm our of razor blades. I must, however, say that Anastacia actually does this song some justic and actually is worthy of respect.
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COMMENT | Holy Crap!!
posted by :
11/13/2007 9:50:56 PM
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IT BURNS!!!!!! MAKE IT STOP!!! GOOD GOD PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!!
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COMMENT | Celine Dion Throws Up the Devil Horns?
posted by :
10/4/2008 8:37:56 PM
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Before her concerts she sacrifices a lamb to satan and repeats "Black Metal Ist Krieg" over and over
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