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If you know me then you know I adore red band trailers and all their violent, nude glory. But if you know that about me you also know I hate when red band trailers don't show any blood or nudity, it's kind of like fibbing to God. Luckily for us the new "Machete" trailer delivers on both. At least I think it does, I skimmed it quickly at work hoping not to be fired. 99% sure I saw a nipple.

As a music reviewer, you begin to develop an intuitive sense of what to expect from an album. Either through past albums, band news reports or the paradigm of whatever metal splinter genre you are encountering, it’s easy to create a mindset for an album before you ever sit down and give it your full attention.

Generally, one of three things happens: Either you expect the album to be great and it is great, you expect it to be poor and it is poor, or in disappointing fashion, you expect greatness and are rewarded with mediocrity.

Too soon? I think I'm going to go with too soon on this one. "The Final" is being described as "Saw" meets a bunch of Columbine inspired High School Massacre movies. I had no idea there was a whole genre out there of those but I'm going to stick with too soon.

That's not to say I'm going to avoid this one. The trailer you can view below for the film does look pretty decent, almost good even. Kids running around stabbing each other and whatnot. Supposedly there's even inappropriate use of cattle prods and stun guns. Sounds like a fun time to me.

I'm faced with another possibly ill-advised Ozzy album. Honestly, I'm not sure "Scream" should exist. In truth though, who am I, who are any of us, to tell the father of heavy metal as we know it that he should stop? So, "Scream."