Slipknot Sues Burger King Over Wrongful Image Use

[DudeAsInCool]

Slipknot is claiming that its image and persona have been hijacked as part of a marketing campaign for Burger King's new chicken fries, the costumed heavy metal band Slipknot is threatening the fast food giant with legal action. In the below August 4 letter, the band's lawyers charge that Coq Roq--a mock metal band featured in new Burger King commercials--was created as a "look-alike, sound alike 'band' in order to influence the Slipknot generation to purchase Chicken Fries."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/08170...ml?link=rssfeed

[bmc]

lol, being a huge slipknot fan myself, i saw this commercial and the first band i thought of was GWAR, not slipknot. the mock band doesnt even look close to slipknot.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Based on two people saying GWAR (my buddy too), my guess is that when I see this, I will most likely think GWAR also. I am a pretty avid GWAR fan and Slipknot is slowly impressing me.

I think it would be interesting to hear GWAR's comments about how Slipknot is reacting to this.

[Ken]

The fake band featured in the BK ads seemed more upbeat with an almost 80s hair band swagger.

You listen to SlipKnot when you want to kill your entire family and all their pets, not when you want chicken.

I would like to sue all parties involved for eleventy billion U.S. dollars, and I'd like to file suit against GWAR for having the dumbest name ever. I will demand three U.S. dollars, which will go towards the purchase of a fork to gouge my eyes out with (which is also best done while listening to SlipKnot).

[DudeAsInCool]

The fake band featured in the BK ads seemed more upbeat with an almost 80s hair band swagger.

You listen to SlipKnot when you want to kill your entire family and all their pets, not when you want chicken.

I would like to sue all parties involved for eleventy billion U.S. dollars, and I'd like to file suit against GWAR for having the dumbest name ever. I will demand three U.S. dollars, which will go towards the purchase of a fork to gouge my eyes out with (which is also best done while listening to SlipKnot).

:rotfl:

[Redneck4sure]

Note to self: Do not leave cds and forks in plain view when Ken comes to visit. :)

[CTC Command]

GWAR - Death Pod

Death Pod comes from the sky

It does!

Through the space, through the stone

Where the Master grows his clones

Where the legions wage eternal war

We were born in this place

Slaughtering race after race

We were part of

The Scumdogs of the Universe

Hey Hey! Hey Hey! Hey Hey! Hey Hey!

The Death Pod is leaving

The Death Pods dismissed

The Death Pod is coming

The Death Pod is pissed

Death Pod comes from the sky

It does!

The Master he gave us tools to despoil all he ruled

Plasma cannons spewing death on anything that dared protrude

But we craved for power, the wars been getting sour

The Pod was built, millions kilt, and something that could kick my ass

Hey Hey! Hey Hey! Hey Hey! Hey Hey!

The Death Pod is leaving

The Death Pods dismissed

The Death Pod is coming

The Death Pod is pissed

Sucking the scrod,

blowing my wad

Blowing my wad

all over God

Dismissed!

Foolish mortal you didn't barge in on the power of the Death Pod did ya?

Huh, huh? Well now you shall receive:

The heat-seeking moisture missile!

Death Pod comes from the sky

It does!

The day it came, the blood was rain

We harvested eternal pain

The battle raged for a billion years

But through the burning corpses pall

It was revealed that GWAR would fall

And were banished to this miserable mudball planet.

Hey Hey! Hey Hey! Hey Hey! Hey Hey!

The Death Pod is leaving

The Death Pods dismissed

The Death Pod is coming

The Death Pod is pissed

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in the commercial, does the GWAR look-alike band look like Gwar in the upper left or GWAR in the lower right?

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I extremely doubt it.

Hey! I got that album/song!

Kick ass! lmao