you gotta admit friar, they all the sudden got back into metal just now and its not so much a coiencidence that metal is pretty popular with kids as we speak. Raps dead and gone at the moment, guitar hero's dominating, metalocolypse is a 15minute show and is on its 3rd season and has no signs of slowing down. Some manager dude told them its time to make some hard stuff and ride this next wave.
I welcome change though, load was a good album especially if it was from another band with a different name. But who wants to be slayer and motorhead?...Yeah they got all the street cred. but they play the same songs over and over.