Check out the front page today for a new interview with Portishead’s Adrian Utley courtesy of correspondent Lily Moayeri. If you’re not familiar with the badassishness that is Portishead, maybe you ought to learn up a little bit first. This would be a good start:

Submit your interview questions for Mr. Dick Cheney as a comment and you could hear your question during the interview tomorrow! It’s your chance to get creative and ask those burning questions. Subscribe to the Synthesis YouTube and watch to hear if your questions pop up!

Fight the Smears (.com) is a website dedicated to removing the smear campaigning used on the internet against Barack Obama. The site attempts to dispel rumors such as Obama being a Muslim, or that his books contain inappropriate race remarks. With the amount of crap that is usually tossed around between candidates and their minions this time of the year, hopefully this will shed a little bit of light on the issue.

In other political news, check out a video we recently put up of our good friend Dubbya Bush’s address at the White House. Enjoi.

Here’s a link to our recent chat with Buzz Osbourne of Melvins fame.

Unplanned by us, this week has turned out to be Hatebreed week here at Synthesis: with the band on the cover of this week’s Synthesis weekly, an interview with the band on the frontpage of the website, Spencer’s blog yesterday about Waiting for Jasta (like Waiting for Guffman only more pissed) and today’s YouTube video of Synthesis metal guru Cayle Hunter chopping it up with Mr. Jasta himself, we couldn’t jock Hatebreed more if we TRIED.

But if you do, at least they’ll dance around in your blood and fuck with your corpse for awhile. At least that’s what seems to be the theme of their new video for “Inside the Fire” which opens with a suicide prevention PSA by frontman David Draiman, but then moves directly to a scene of some broad hanging herself, complete with sound effects. He then takes a minute to kick it with the corpse for awhile, while the rest of his band dances around in the blood, before Draiman himself gives becoming an hero a good college try, being saved at the last second by magically transporting himself into a looney bin. Kind of a fucked up concept but at they’re trying, I guess. I interviewed the band a few years ago and when guitarist Dan Donegan mentioned that the band was seeing “four and five-year old kids singing the lyrics to their songs at the shows” I asked him if he was ever worried that some of their subject matter, such as a video with people killing themselves, might be a little bit much for fans of that age to comprehend and he, needless to say, a little nonchalant:

“Like I said, everybody may have a different point of view, they may get the wrong message. We can’t really do anything about that”

Ha! And our parents thought it was bad when we listened to too much Dr. Dre and started calling each other “niggas” and our classmates “bitches.” Let’s see how kids raised on a steady diet of Disturbed end up during their teen years.