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Posted Wed 10 Dec 2008 12:04PM GMT by Mitch Carter in The Guestlist

19-year-old Italian heavy metal singer Cristina Balzano has been arrested for stabbing the guitarist in her band Soul Cry after he fluffed a guitar riff.

Balzano allegedly stabbed the 16-year-old guitarist for playing the wrong notes during a rehearsal session after accusing him of "sounding evil".

Balzano has now been charged by Genovese police for attempted murder.

The incident is not the first altercation to affect the heavy metal scene.

Founder of Norwegian black metal outfit Burzum, Varg Vikernes is currently in jail in for the murder of Øystein Aarseth, guitarist for rival metal band Mayhem. Although his motive was unclear, the murder is though to have been "a power struggle between rival leaders of the Satanic circle".

British rockers Iron Maiden were famously pelted with eggs by Sharon Osbourne and her cohorts during a gig in the US after lead singer Bruce Dickinson "disrespected Ozzy".

209 Comments

21. Yahoo! Music User -
Can people PLEASE STOP typing stupid signs instead of normal letters!! Dont overuse your keyboard even if you get a bit excited over it. It's impossible to read for normal, less excited people. Plus it looks really S&T@U{P}ID!!

22. littlepinkbraincell -
Only Eggs! What a waste of eggs for disrespecting Ozzy Osborne. I would have thrown them a bouquet of flowers. I can't stand Ozzy Osborne or any of the goons from the Osbornes. Couldn't they have just thrown Sharon. Probably would have been the only toss she'd got this year! LOL!

23. Yahoo! Music User -
She only stabbed him the once, he got off lightly I reckon!

24. Scott -
@leah

It's true,

Satan has been getting a lot of bad press lately.

25. Yahoo! Music User -
Hey man, [profane] hip hop sucks and why the [profane] do all these people think metal is about the anti christ. Yeah i mean some of you little revlers get off on that [profane] and a whole lotta band use it to promote there image. but [profane] i just love metal coz its gets me outta bed in the morning. Raw agression and energy. Wikid. And i ve been to loads of th3e biggest metal bands and in that pit there aint nothing but like minded people and enegy. Its at those gangsta wanna be hip hop [profane]got sessions that people get robbed, stabed and abused. [profane] YOU ALL!!!!!!

26. kathleen -
i bet she stabbed him with a toothpick. word.

27. James V -
man, I hate it when people fluff their solos, its a crime

28. Yahoo! Music User -
PS:Teacher:
Fevered ego, [profane]in oath mate! you not wrong there!!!!

29. Alan -
haha [profane]ing nutbar that she is!!! The 16 year old guitarist should have punched the living [profane] out of the cheeky cow, or at least broke his axe over her head.

30. Jess -
i do agree with leah b, and it's not coming from a etal fan bias. i'm pretty open minded when it comes to music, i like almost anything. But it does seem a bit unfair that metal and rock bands get a bit of a hard deal? Whereas, as Leah B said, it seems to be all tiny violins and misguided youth when it comes to rap and hip hop. Not particularly fair...

but yeah, Sad to hear of this, although perhaps a little extreme that he stabbed him because of missed solo notes, it probably had a bigger back story...that's the media for you though eh?

Xx

31. duran -
we metalheads dont worship the devil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. volience has always bn in music not only metal.

32. Yahoo! Music User -
youre wrong dude, vikernes killed aarsaeth because he was ripping him off and trash talking him - anyway that happened about 15 years ago. and soul cry suck, theyre like mcfly in black eyeliner, bollocks to them

33. Morphindel -
We don't worship the devil. We worship the METAL!!

34. christopher -
haha rappers have guns so why not!
i hate the way idiots think that all metal is satanic and evil, most metal is anti-war!

35. Phil -
To be fair, that attack by Varg Vikernes was 15 years ago!

36. ellie -
this is really sad, but has absolutely nothing to do with rock and metal music. she was obviously just a little unstable. lol

37. Yahoo! Music User -
Love how their using a cropped picture of Matt Heafy for this!

38. Angela -
Yay, here we go, bet there's gonna be an article in the Daily Mail about how metal is the work of the devil and will cause poor impressionable kids to kill each other. Ngh.

39. christian j -
lol! the pic is matt from trivium XD

40. Mark Hadley -
Good, stabbing metal guitarists should be encouraged. In fact all metal musicians and metal fans.
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