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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

61. Joseph -
guess the stabbing maybe due to a "lover's quarel" involving a third party perhaps, to think that the incident happened during a rehearsal and not during a gig! guess the guitarist and vocalist are lovers, and the vocalists found out that he is [profane]ing their bassist, keyboardist and drummer...who were all males..bwahahaha =) peace out! rock rules!! in nomine satanus! [profane] Stryper!!! Death Metal Rules! love live Venom! & Iron Maiden!!

62. Yahoo! Music User -
guess the stabbing maybe due to a "lover's quarel" involving a third party perhaps, to think that the incident happened during a rehearsal and not during a gig! guess the guitarist and vocalist are lovers, and the vocalists found out that he is [profane]ing their bassist, keyboardist and drummer...who were all males..bwahahaha =) peace out! rock rules!! in nomine satanus! [profane] Stryper!!! Death Metal Rules! love live Venom! & Iron Maiden!!

63. slim -
what th [profane] is up with the world stabbing someone because they [profane]ed up a tune. what happened to good old smashing someones face in with their own guitar. the world is a [profane]ed up place.

64. angry builder -
It would be nice if people would do a little research before leaving negative comments , Satanism has nothing to do with this story and if people knew what it means to be a satanist they would understand that we do not endorse this kind of senseless violence , and not all satanists are into heavy metal as we come from all different walks of life .

65. Yahoo! Music User -
The music genre here has nothing to do with violence! It's clearly just a victim as well. It's all about the natural instinct of "human beings" to behave like that. Violence happens wherever there is a human being, regardless of his/her cultural background. Evil is in the person not in the music. People always tend to blame Heavy Metal for that but don't realize violence is involved in other genres as well. Will you please open your minds and stop generalizing things?

Let us now send our good vibes so that the victim gets well soon.
Stay heavy! Support metal, not rumors.

Have a nice day.

66. Dave -
A compliant about something mentioned above.

1) The previous case mentioned Satanic Circles. Yea metal and rock tend to mention the Devil and Death a lot but they should do some damn research. Satanism come from the word Satan which means betrayer, maybe the same way the devil got it, but as a faith they take it because most of the early ones converted from Christianity. It is seriously unfair that a heavy metal incident should be linked to a faith that the jury obviously know know nothing about. Satanics don't worship the devil, its a faith derived from the very prime occultist rule, freedom of the individual, and each person having the same freedoms and rights. These articles are written by people who know very little about what they are talking about.

Weather he sounded evil or not is immaterial, she should be locked up and the key thrown away.

67. I -
i'll also add that hiphop/gangster rap is responsible for a far greater proportion of the violence between young people today, one of the basic themes in hip hop is often gang violence. youths today see these hiphop artists as rolemodels, and that's where the violence you see on the streets stems from.

68. Yahoo! Music User -
LONG LIVE OBAMA!!

69. Xear -
And thier I was thinking that rock and roll had turned soft. Maybe the younger "rock" bands such as the Jonas brothers should pay attention and learn somthing. ROCK ON

70. Yahoo! Music User -
so does society accept the fact that rappers go round killing themselves? thats not ever seen as satanic. i like death metal but i dont want to kill anyone

71. uwe -
I AGREE ABSOLUTE WITH THE COMMENT 15. LEAH B !!!
THINGS LIKE THAT HAPPENS
EVERYWHERE RIGHT NOW.
VERY SAD !!!!

72. Yahoo! Music User -
very sad

73. Yahoo! Music User -
See I'm a metalhead to the core i listen to alsorts and i can tell you one damn thing, there are few satanic bands in the world, and yeah even i think there messed up lyrics. It's not about violence and hatred, take slipknot for example went to see them live a day ago in glasgow and it was about unity bringbing everyone together and getting rid of that anger in one crazy blow, and yeah i got hurt i passed out at one point - i think - and at the end of it the dudes i was in the pit with came together and we freakin hugged and had a laugh.

Dont Diss what you dont know or experience

74. Yahoo! Music User -
what a load of bollox

75. Yahoo! Music User -
I love metal and no not that many people who like metal are satanic..wtf
is it becouse the way goths dress and the way some emos cut thereself
if your a chav i bet you know someone whos been stabbed....for whatever reasons.


p.s. the lead singer needs a long time in jail.

76. Yahoo! Music User -
at least it was a genuine mistake by a real musician, playing any real instrument is all practice practice practice, not this push a button rubbish thats claiming to be music!

77. David -
I think all 'singers' in crappy English indie bands (thats all of them then) should follow suit and do the same to their guitarists..... 'for sounding [profane]'. May as well do the bassists, keyboardists and drummers while they are at it. Which leaves you with one incarcerated whingey chop rotting in jail. Problem solved. Now as for rap, hip-hop, garage, .........

78. Lord Abomination -
This will turn sour & make all metalheads look bad, the bloody media will be rife just like the whole Mayhem case. I can picture the Daily Mail's response... "Heavy Metal Decidates youth!" ignorent swines.

79. Yahoo! Music User -
The author has a flawed knowledge of the history of metal (well Black Metal in particular) and comparing the incident involving 2 Norwegian Black Metal bands, who if you don't know are famously Satanic and trying their butts off to *be* evil, to some mad Italian stabbing someone because the sounded "too evil".

... & other than being married to one of the most influencial musicians of our time what is Heavy Metal about Sharon Osbourne? Nothing. Although owed a lot of thanks for keeping Ozzy alive!
Eggs at Iron Maiden? Yeah, that's just the same as people being stabbed.

TheScientist - why don't you check out one of the hundreds of "non-evil" Death Metal bands! Aggression doesn't mean evil. House? Aren't you supposed to be zoned on E somewhere loving everybody? No? Well then don't generalise.

80. Stuart -
sad that these muppets just cant enjoy the music,crazy times and happy dayz !
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