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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

141. alun - Wed 10 Dec 2008 3:56PM GMT
sorry, but there is a lot of back [front] stabbing in the music buisness. ithink there is a song in there
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142. Yahoo! Music User - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:02PM GMT
Bloody thing!!
[profane]! tat crazzy freak is jus another black spot on heavy metal!!
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143. Yahoo! Music User - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:04PM GMT
mangio jevello.
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144. Kevin - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:09PM GMT
if you say "Heavy Metal" backwards, it comes out as: "I renounce Christ and worship the devil and love him to bits", or something....
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145. Yahoo! Music User - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:09PM GMT
fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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146. Eoin - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:11PM GMT
Nobody in the article said it was just happening in metal. Chill the [profane] out! There probably is the occasional bassoonist who freaks out and strangles a nearby musician with their own triangle (oh, the irony - they were from Bermuda!). It's just an article about something fairly dramatic/unusual happening in any genre of music.
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147. Ray - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:11PM GMT
WOW, I think we have found the next Gov of Illinois!!
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148. marie p - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:17PM GMT
lol thats heavy metal for you
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149. Yahoo! Music User - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:17PM GMT
That's just daft eh?
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150. Laura - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:17PM GMT
Whoever killed this man is pure evil and deserved to get loaked away in prison forever. Because she had no rights to take that mans life and this is sad because that boy had a whole life ahead of him and she had no right to take it away for him. The person that killed him should feel ashamed and absolutly stupid and evil because thats what you are "evil" !
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151. Laura - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:17PM GMT
Whoever killed this man is pure evil and deserved to get loaked away in prison forever. Because she had no rights to take that mans life and this is sad because that boy had a whole life ahead of him and she had no right to take it away for him. The person that killed him should feel ashamed and absolutly stupid and evil because thats what you are "evil" !
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152. Yahoo! Music User - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:23PM GMT
1 word. Woah!

she has serious issues.

and it was only a rehearsal imagine if it were a gig
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153. Yahoo! Music User - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:25PM GMT
lizbethsemloh he's not dead btw.
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154. brian - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:29PM GMT
WOULDNT IT BE GREAT IF THEY ALL STABBED EACH OTHER? LEAVING THE DISCONCERNING EAR FREE TO LISTEN TO 'EAT STATIC'.
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155. brian - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:32PM GMT
anyway!! it doesnt hurt if your into satanic metal shredding!! does it?
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156. Yahoo! Music User - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:33PM GMT
They post an article about a killer musician and they dont put an image of the guy who did it, but instead a picture of Matt Heafy? This is messed up...
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157. Paul - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:34PM GMT
Anyone who thinks that death metal, black metal and metal lovers are evil needs to take a look at gangsta rap. Now THAT'S evil. Is it because nobody wants to upset the hoodie wearing thugs but they don't care about upsetting metal fans? Give up, you'll never beat us. Hail Satan.

Metal forever...
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158. Matthew - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:34PM GMT
I think alot of people will see this incident and think even less of Metal as a whole. I hate silly people that ruin it for everyone else. Nevermind, another blow to the effort.
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159. brian - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:35PM GMT
personally i think that sheryl tweedy should take this on board and stab some of her band members........then herself
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160. Hamish F - Wed 10 Dec 2008 4:35PM GMT
How can you compare the likes of Burzum and Mayhem with Ozzy Osbourne and Iron Maiden? Ignorant..
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