Jim LaMarca of the new thrash supergroup IRON STEEL (also of CHIMAIRA) has written an exclusive blog entry for MetalSucks. The band also features Morgan Rose (SEVENDUST) on drums; Dave Ellefson (ex-MEGADETH) and Rachel Bolan (SKID ROW), along with LaMarca, all on bass; with vocalist and guitarist Fran Strine and guitarist Tommy Redd. Each week a different member will be posting a blog entry at MetalSucks. This week Chimaira's Jim LaMarca reports on the post-NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) apocalypse. An excerpt from the blog entry follows:

As the wild NAMM weekend came to a close, Iron Steel almost broke up. Hung over from our release party, we had our first band meeting. Tommy was late, as usual, because he and Diggity Dave from PIMP MY RIDE closed down the party and moved it over to the custom shop, bringing the majority of the women in attendance with them. Fran had been barricaded in the bathroom of his hotel suite, hiding from Lacey from ROCK OF LOVE. She stalked him during the party and chased him all the way back to his hotel room. Morgan took his SEVENDUST bandmates, John Connolly and Sonny Mayo, left the party early and somehow wound up in jail for performing lewd acts at nearby Disneyland. Ellefson, in his usual ‘work mode’ did an impromptu ‘side-side project’ with some of the remaining musicians in attendance at the party – recruiting Mick Thomson (SLIPKNOT), Josh Rand (STONE SOUR), Mark Rizzo (SOULFLY), Doc (GOD FORBID) – into a band that was all guitar players – and he was the only bassist (finally). I observed it all with Rob and Matt from my other band, CHIMAIRA, sitting in the ultra-ultra-VIP section where nobody could see or speak to us – it was an invisibility chamber, actually – created just for Iron Steel.

Read the rest of the entry here.