‘Oi chaps. Yours truly with the pink bottom has a bit of good and a bit of bad news. The bad: DMB will cease to exist, or at least go mute from now on. What we have will remain – at least for the time being – but no new content will be added.… Go read/watch!

Unlike Islander over at NCS last week, we did not forget our second birthday yesterday. We did get into such an incredible amount of shit to do, places to visits and chickens to decapitate that there was no time whatsoever to dedicate some attention to celebrating that The Baboon was blown from the uterus two years ago.

Thankfully we don’t care about our birthday, because no one ever gives us presents anyway. All we get is a new bill from the hosting provider to pay for coming year’s subscription. So we’ll keep it short. Hooray!

Now growl along hairy motherfuckers!

Hard work gets rewarded. I’m taking two weeks off and will set my hairy ass on a flight to Greece, the Ionian island of Kefallinia to be exact. Departure is Saturday at 04:15 p.m. Off to save the EU economy and shit like that! Yeah right, by floating my butt in Greek seas, sleeping on their sandy beaches, eating half their sheep and soaking in some culture as well, just for the heck of it?! Hell no, I’m just looking at a good time my friends!

But no worries, I’ve left you well supplied: there’s at least one post a day planned for the coming two weeks. They may not all be equally long, but in the end it’s all about the music, not about the fat man talking like it matters. The other three writers, Byrd36, CroOZza and Angel will keep an eye on things. Maybe even put up an extra post here and there, if their work / exams / wives / girlfriends / kids / and other occupations allow them some time for it. I know they’ve been very busy indeed and already much appreciate the fact that they are willing to take the time to check up on things here once in a while.

Leaves me to say: keep making your comments and sending us your suggestions. I have been able to schedule almost the complete to-do list for publication in the coming two weeks, so we’ll need new ideas again. Cheers lads!

Why? Because BMI stands for Butt-fucking Mediocre Incest-beings. The US performing rights organization still thinks in old dogmas and once again fails to accept the changing reality. Basically they want fuckin’ money. As much as they can possibly get. More more more is the goal, while they forget that suckin’ money out of everyone might not benefit the artists they represent at all. As a result they resolutely snap the neck of any good, innovative initiative that pops up.

Initiatives like Earbits. Apparently BMI considers the player we had a “widget” and they want money for it. Does it matter that we play Metal and pretty much every Metal artist on the fuckin’ face of the globe appreciates when his / her songs get played so people and potential fans are made aware of their existence? Apparently not.

There needs to be but one Metal artist to have registered with BMI to give them the “right” to charge money for a player like ours. Earbits got the choice between paying the bill or stopping the players on affiliate sites. Obviously they picked the second option, as they cannot run the risk of getting ass-whooped by a freshly opened can of lawyers. That goes even for the Metal player, as the existence of only one Metal band with a relationship with BMI would turn shit sour for Earbits faster than you can say “I wouldn’t mind BMI becoming the victim of a properly executed DDoS attack”. By which I’m definitely not stimulating any of you to undertake such an attack. Just saying I fuckin’ wouldn’t mind!

In short, we just got deprives of our awesome as fuck DMB Radio player. Hold its memory high and remember that BMI sucks. The puss out of its own balls. Go read/watch!

After a couple of hours of tech problems yesterday, the guys at Earbits.com have managed to fix the DMB Radio player. You also might have noticed before that some of the links to specific songs in the player weren’t working anymore. As an added bonus to yesterday’s fix, that’s now fixed as well! In short: you can fuckin’ listen to fuckin’ Death Metal Baboon fuckin’ Radio again. Just fuckin’ click the fuckin’ opening tab all the way up fuckin’ top and the rest comes fuckin’ naturally. Fuck yeah! Go read/watch!

Like in any other night the clock struck midnight last night and like every once a week Friday turned into Saturday. An epic happening! The only thing different this time was that today we write 2011 instead of 2010. Apparently that’s a reason to set off fireworks, drink champagne and exchange best wishes for the new year. You may have held us for inconsiderate assholes that we so far completely neglected to wish you loads of good stuff for 2011. Well, I was just too fuckin’ lazy. Until now. So, happy new year motherfuckers! Probably all of you are in a severe state of Hangoveritus, but despite that I’d like to say a big Cheers to Metal! May the coming year bring us lots of it, and of even better quality than last year!

A couple of days ago we were offline for two days or so. The reason: my hosting package was exactly one year old and my provider managed to screw up my continued subscription, despite that I had already paid the fee weeks ago. As reported, it made me run up against the walls, despairing as I was. Not only was I worried about losing everything we’ve worked so hard to build up, it would also have been a major bummer, to put it incredibly mildly, to not have made our first birthday. Because that’s what it is today, I found out in the nick of time, as it’s evening already over here.

Right, The Baboon was started in November 2009 by Niek. The idea was simply to be a good place for metalheads of all different flavors to have a source of new metal all the time. Now, more than half a year into it, you, the visitor, have proven there’s a market for it (thanks for that by the way!). The Baboon has grown rapidly and now consists of six metal-loving people contributing regularly. Let us introduce ourselves. Go read/watch!

Another one joins the pack soon! Within a short while motig from Israel will make his first contribution to The Baboon. Welcome motig! Go read/watch!