Wow! I had heard there was a lot of rain at the Carolina Rebellion, but I didn’t know it was this bad! Pulse Content reports this past weekend’s Carolina Rebellion festival at Charlotte Motor Speedway outside Charlotte, NC turned into a disaster on Sunday (May 5th) as many of the second day acts were washed out by heavy rains that started in the morning and continued throughout the day until the latter part of the schedule was forced to cancel. The three biggest bands of the day — Soundgarden, Bush and Rise Against — were unable to play, while Volbeat and Nonpoint had already scrapped their sets. A brief period of clear weather earlier in the day did allow Pop Evil, All That Remains, Steel Panther, Hollywood Undead and Buckcherry to play. Meanwhile, the first day of the festival on Saturday (May 4th) came off without a hitch, featuring sets from Young Guns, Sick Puppies, In This Moment, Halestorm, Device and more. Device was joined during its set by HARDDRIVE LIVE TOUR band Halestorm singer Lzzy Hale for the first public live performance of “Close My Eyes Forever,” the cover of the old Ozzy Osbourne/Lita Ford hit featured on Device’s debut album. Draiman told me covering the song has been on his to-do list for a long time: “I’ve wanted to do that for years. I’ve always been a fan of the song, and I originally approached Lzzy about it years and years and years ago. And originally we were gonna do it as a Disturbed cover. But I’m glad it ended up happening with Device and not Disturbed, because of where we ended up going with it stylistically.” Watch a fan filmed video of the performance here. The rest of Saturday’s bill included Papa Roach, Three Days Grace, Deftones, Limp Bizkit and headliners Alice In Chains. The organizers of the festival will make an announcement later today as to how they plan to address the loss of the performances with the audience members who paid for the day. Bummer. Hope next weekend’s Rock on the Range weather is a lot better!…Our friends at Loudwire unearthed this little nugget of info. A 20-year-old short film made to promote Nine Inch Nails‘ Broken EP had surfaced online. The film was never officially released due to its controversial and graphic content. It is comprised of several separate videos which, when played together, amount to the equivalent of a snuff film. One individual video for the song “Happiness In Slavery” was issued, but was almost universally banned by TV networks for showing a man being both tortured and pleasured in a demented dentist chair while his blood is used to water a garden below him. Now the entire sequence is online just as Nine Inch Nails is gearing up to play some festivals and launch its own tour later this year. The video was directed by English video director, photographer, musician and former Hipgnosis designer Peter Christopherson. (Hipgnosis was a graphic arts/design company formed by Storm Thorgerson & producer Aubrey Powell, the former designed the famous Pink Floyd album, Dark Side of the Moon, among many others. And sadly, Storm passed away on April 18th.) I once repped Peter for work in the U.S. when I worked for a video production company in LA. He was a musician (one of the first industrial musicians) for the bands Throbbing Gristle, Coil and This Mortal Coil. Peter passed away in 2010. He and Trent Reznor (a huge fan of Peter’s) hooked up in 1996 when Peter worked with Trent on music for the soundtrack to Lost Highway. Unfortunately, the movie was removed from the link this morning! Bummer!….Mastodon posted a message to fans they are working away on their next album down in Atlanta. Good news!…Have a good day.
