It is a sad state of affairs when a company cancels a probably sold-out concert because of politics. I am a HUGE Metal / Heavy Metal fan and my number 1 album of this year is definitely “The Blackening” by MachineHead. It is lyrically and musically an extremely powerful album. I would kill to have these guys performing out here in South Africa one day, yet Disney in Orlando canceled their show 2 days before its due date. 2 DAYS! I mean WTF?! The tickets had been on sale for 2 weeks and Disney pulled this off.

Robb Flynn (lead singer of MachineHead) wrote a blog post here concerning this and it has the whole story : http://headbangersblog.mtv.com/2007/10/10/guest-blog-machine-heads-robb-flynn-talks-censorship/

Whats sad, as Mr. Flynn points out, is that the show got canceled to make Disney Land a “safer place” while the cinemas there are showing adult only movies containing Sex, Nudity, Excessive Violence and extreme Language. None of the Hip-Hop shows had been canceled either. What is wrong when in “The Land of the Free” you can’t even enact your human right to freedom of speech?! Its ridiculous.

Come to South Africa MachineHead, we wont ostracize you! Ask Metallica when they were welcomed by a 43, 000 strong crowd in Centurion. BRING ON THE METAL! \m/

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Tags: MachineHead, Robb Flynn, Heavy Metal, Metal, South Africa