You’ve been warned: enjoy your first edition of Slaughterday.

The Hard Knock News:

“Would you trust this man with your life?”

Roadrunner reports

If anyone in the realm of metal knows anything about how to survive the life of a superstar, it’s the apparently immortal Ozzy Osbourne. This link has info on his new book, and locations where you can get your new copy signed by the dark prince himself.  In tribute to the ultimate survivor (sounds like a reality show…and here at Slaughterday, we don’t like reality shows), here’s one of his absolute best tracks:

SMN news reports “The Beginning Of The End Of An Era Of Legit Legendary Legends”

In news sure to make the purest and non-poserish metalheads amongst us weep a tear of manly sadness, the nearly 30-year old Candlemass has decided to make their next album their last. While an answer to the question “WHY, DEAR GOD, WHY?!” certainly exists, there is no consolation for us beyond the promise of one last hurrah. In the meantime, let us look back and remember the epic awesomeness that once was, and soon will never be again.

The Reaper’s Reviews:

(NOTE: This space is reserved for a select few metal reviews from our vast collection, focusing on the new but occasionally dipping into the old as well. Enjoy the words and then enjoy the accompanying videos.)

The Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction*click link for review*

From metal mastermind Devin Townsend comes one of the most complex and original albums you’ll hear this year. Yours Truly, SolitaryMan, has all you need to know to know you need to hear it:

Official video for the unbelievably awesome “Juular”:

Mastodon – The Hunter *click link for review*

For my money, Mastodon are the best metal band you can find today. The Hunter is another in a continuously longer line of reasons why this is. Once again, I am here to spread the wisdom:

This song makes me sad (and then the solo makes me all like “SHIT YEAH!”), my vote for song of 2011:

That does it for the first edition, folks. Think of this as a trial run; in the future, you can certainly expect more than this. With the podcast, and extended news/review coverage, we here at Music Emissions hope to make the Slaughterday editorial one of the internet’s finest metal…things! And if you have any suggestions or offerings for Slaughterdays, be sure to drop me a line at hastmich@herzeleid.net or leave a comment on my profile here (Username: SolitaryMan , of course). Until next week, keep the horns in the air and the posers in the malls!

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It has been a while coming and while I may be a web developer I tend to be a bit of a hack. When we moved over to the Wordpress backend from PHPBB I ended up doing some heavy standard file editing which is a no-no on these packages. The reason isn’t that it may break something, the reason is that you will have a hard time upgrading. Basically when an upgrade is done in Wordpress you overwrite all of your files with the new files then perform a database upgrade. In essence, overwriting ALL of the hacks you’ve done.

We haven’t really changed the way we do things, only this time around we’ve actually documented the files and changes that are needed to added the wonderful user extensions as well as Artist and Album tagging on posts. Nothing major but when you’ve got an entire site depending on the infrastructure you need to do it right.

What’s next…

We have a whole slew of plans moving forward. We were on a bit of a holding pattern with the onslaught of visitors during the Indie Of The Year contest but now that the contest is finished we’ll have some time to address. I won’t get into much detail about what plans are but I will reveal this, we are working on a micro-payment system for editorial reviewers. What does that mean for you as a “user”? You will want to prove your chops to us to get in on the editorial team! Start taking part in some of the comments and such throughout the site and most importantly, submit many user reviews. If we like what we see you will get a personal invite to join the team. We are so far behind on reviews we aren’t just looking for a couple. We’d like to expand to at least 10-15 full-time editorial staff to help out with reviews, blog posts, podcasts, posting artist bios and much more.

This micro-payment system has been on the table for quite some time but the resources haven’t been there to do the extra coding necessary in order to make it happen. Let me know your thoughts on this and what you might hope to see in such a system down in the comments below.

Thanks for your patience in this upgrade and please let us know via the contact form if you run into any bugs or glitches in the upgraded version.

In modifying the comment stream we also changed it so that if you recommend an album to more than one person, it only shows up once. Now you can recommend it to the whole damn community and no one will no differently!

You may be seeing some more features/bug fixes in the near future. Our development team wants to clear off their To Do lists in order to prep for a rash of new features.

Anything you’re looking for?