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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

121. EMMA -
i totally agree with leah b

122. Jack -
i agree totally with him. you are all idiots with nothing better to do. get a life, you sad, stinking pricks.

123. Yahoo! Music User -
Heavy Music Metal My Arse !!

124. Yahoo! Music User -
Erm...does anyone know if the band (soz forgot name) has a new album coming out....publicity stunt? Cynical, I know.

125. RCS -
It is sad when anything like this happens, whether it be in the music world or out of the music world. I do agree with what Kev and LeahB have said, to a certain extent, but this article isn't really slagging off heavy metal music or fans it's just reporting the facts.

126. Duncan -
Oh Come on dreging up the past Varg Vikernes was sentanced in August 1993, that has no bearing on this current incident, stop sturing this up the girl was clearly insane, she would have probably stabbed a band member even if she was in a pop group.

127. Michael -
metal is not evil its just music

128. Yahoo! Music User -
Surely none of these incidents compares to Dimebag!

129. Samuel -
i think leah b and kev should take their heads out of their own arses and go and drown them selves as they obviously need to sort out their fcuking prorities
cnuts

130. Elizabeth F -
thatz jst wrng

131. Yahoo! Music User -
nothing was said when Cliff Richard went berserk at Wimbledon.A good example of attempted mass murder if ever there was one.

132. Yuki -
o_0... wow... i mean..sheesh. Stab someone just because they can't play right... But that doesn't mean all heavy rock metal lovers are evil or anything... I find it silly how people judge the type of music people like with their characters. I mean honestly, what has rock or metal gotta do anything with being violent or a satanist? It's just more energetic than pop, or anything other. If all rock, metal lovers were evil... than what would you say for all the famous rock metal bands?? REALLy violent eh? not.

133. David R -
The passion of metal is real, I'd kill our guitarist if I could get away with it, he just never learns the bridge section correctly.

134. Ciaran -
i always knew the italians were crazy, but that's just one person
people should remember that heavy music
ultimately brings people together and gives some of us who don't fit in with the chart music lovers some common ground. metal is very diverse a s well. yes some black metallers are satanists,but a lot of metal is very positive. just lok at dragonforce
"free for all eternity we stand" united victorious the herts of our nation tonight"

135. Ersilia -
she was def on drugs... or, she is part of a Satanic setta!

136. Steven C -
Thats HEAVY metal ! !

137. mark -
P...O...O...P

POOP!

138. Stephen -
Metal is for rejects... If you're sad enough to wanna listen to over distorted bollocks and a grown man trying to sound like the devils incarnate whilst simply looking like a greasy moron...go ahead stab each other while you're at it...

139. Yahoo! Music User -
What the FLUFF is wrong with people these days?! When did everyone start taking life so seriously? This stuff depresses me : (

140. Beverley -
Chavs ang gansters stab and shoot each other all the time!
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