Danish metallers EVIL MASQUERADE have been accused of buying fake views on YouTube. Check out the band’s message below:
CALLING ALL FANS!
The sinking ship a.k.a YouTube just accused us of buying fake views for our latest video ‘Like Voodoo’ and have therefore removed it without further investigation. Completely outrageous since it “only” had about 21.000 views, which is nothing out-of-the-ordinary 5 months after a new Evil Masquerade release. We have of course re-uploaded the video, but all previous links are now broken.
We now ask you kindly to show the fuckers at YouTube that they don’t stop Evil Masquerade this easy. PLEASE SHARE this new link around anywhere possible and impossible. Together we are unstoppable. \m/ \m/
NEW LINK:
Visit EVIL MASQUERADE‘s official website at this location.
Rock legends BLACK SABBATH will mark the release of their new album, “13”, with a special live event the day of the album’s release (Tuesday, June 11). All three members — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler — will participate in the Black Sabbath Town Hall via Google+ Hangout streamed live on YouTube and Google+ and broadcast live on Ozzy’s Boneyard on SiriusXM at 7:00 p.m. ET. Ozzy and Geezer will appear from the live event at Angel Orensanz Foundation For Contemporary Art, with Tony Iommi beaming in from Birmingham, England, while “13” drummer Brad Wilk (of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE) and Ozzy‘s son Jack Osbourne (who directed the clips to launch the album) will join live face-to-face via Google+ Hangout from Los Angeles. The event will be hosted by comedian Jim Norton (a host on Ozzy’s Boneyard and a co-host on “The Opie & Anthony Show” on SiriusXM).
Viewers around the world will join the celebration via www.youtube.com/officialsabbath. The event will also air live on Ozzy Osbourne‘s SiriusXM channel Ozzy’s Boneyard, via satellite on channel 38, and through the SiriusXM Internet radio app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at SiriusXM.com.
“13” is the first BLACK SABBATH record in 35 years to feature Ozzy, Tony and Geezer all playing together. This marks BLACK SABBATH‘s return to Vertigo, their original label, and the group’s first studio album together since 1978’s “Never Say Die!”
Details of the album’s deluxe edition surfaced on April 19, with the band revealing that the eight-song effort will be accompanied by three bonus tracks called “Methademic”, “Peace Of Mind” and “Pariah”.
Several versions of “13” are available for pre-order, including a standard CD, a double CD that includes a second disc of exclusive bonus audio, a heavyweight vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve and a “Super Deluxe Box Set” containing the double CD, the vinyl album, an exclusive DVD documentary on the band’s reunion, 13 photographic prints and hand-written lyrics.
The drum tracks on the album were laid down by Wilk following original drummer Bill Ward‘s decision to bow out of the reunion.
According to the UK’s Mail Online, the world’s biggest recording companies have been stripped of two billion YouTube hits after the website cracked down on alleged ‘fake viewers’.
Universal lost a total of one billion views in the video site’s biggest ever crackdown on artificially inflated figures.
Sony was second hardest hit, losing more than 850million views in a single day.
The dramatic cuts came as YouTube conducted a crackdown on fake views, but music industry sources have blamed it on housekeeping related to the migration of their videos across different channels.
The unprecedented move left Universal with just five videos on the site – none of which were music – and Sony with just three.
“This was not a bug or a security breach. This was an enforcement of our viewcount policy,” YouTube announced.
It marks a huge commercial blow to all the artists involved as YouTube is now the web’s most important outlet for music videos
Over four billion hours of video are watched by over 800million unique visitors to the site each month.
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