Here's Machinima's premiere trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the upcoming sequel to 2009's so-so at best G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The Jon M. Chu (director of Step Up 3D and that Justin Bieber flick...wait, what the?) directed film stars Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock, Channing Tatum as Duke, Adrianna Palicki as Lady Jaye, Ray Stevenson as Firefly, Ray Park as Snake Eyes, Bruce Willis as Joe Colton...and that's just to name a few. If this trailer is anything to go by - the film should be worth checking out. Look for it in theaters June 29th, 2011.
Teefury's latest $10 t-shirt features Jesse & Mr. White from the amazing Breaking Bad television series done up in a quasi-Calvin and Hobbes style. Neat? Neat.
During Metallica's final 30th Anniversary celebration show at San Francisco's Fillmore, a fourth unused Death Magnetic track was included in the setlist. As you can see by the handy entry title, this one is called "Rebel of Babylon". If you followed 2008's "Mission: Metallica", you may remember this video with a rather enthusiastic James Hetfield headbanging/air guitaring/pianoing to some unreleased material. The music heard there is part of "Rebel." During the gig, MetClub e-mailed members an mp3 of the studio version. Here's a Youtube upload:
Youtube videos of these formerly unreleased Death Magnetic songs are currently being taken down by Warner Music Group, so the video above may not work when you view this.
The Geekskull rundown: This song is, in technical terms, a motherfucker. Furious riffing, brilliant lyrics, delicious vocal deliveries from Hetfield, a solo that actually fits Kirk Hammett's band-given moniker "The Ripper", and, and, and...just, wow. Again, it's puzzling that such an impressive track was left off of Death Magnetic, but the four songs debuted this week are going to make for one hell of a potent EP. Beyond Magnetic anyone?
